Operating on a directory and its subdirectories, recursively.
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How to search text throughout entire file system?
Assuming that the grep tool should be used, I'd like to search for the text string "800x600" throughout the entire file system.
I tried:
grep -r 800x600 /
but it doesn't work.
What I believe my ...
12
votes
3answers
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How to list files that were changed in a certain range of time?
How can I list recursively all files that were changed between 22.12.2011 and 24.12.2011?
10
votes
2answers
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Tar up all PDFs in a directory, retaining directory structure
I'm trying to create a compressed tarball that contains all PDF files that exist in one of my directories. The directory structure needs to be retained. Empty directories are not needed, but I really ...
8
votes
3answers
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Flattening a nested directory
This is probably very simple, but I can't figure it out. I have a directory structure like this (dir2 is inside dir1):
/dir1
/dir2
|
--- file1
|
--- file2
What is ...
8
votes
2answers
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Locate and delete all temporary files in user directory
I use vim a lot, and my area has power failure a lot. So the resultant is I get many *.swp files scattered over my PC.
I want an alias of rm command that removes all files with either .swp, ~, ...
7
votes
1answer
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Strange behaviour in recursive copy
Could someone explain why this happens?
Most specifically:
Why is one 1's content copied to f?
And why is f copied to g?
$ tree
.
0 directories, 0 files
$ mkdir 1
$ mkdir 2
$ touch 1/a
$ touch ...
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votes
5answers
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How do I count all the files recursively through directories
I want to see how many files are in subdirectories in there subdirectories to find out where all the inode usage is on the system. Kind of like I would do this for space usage
du -sh /*
which will ...
6
votes
4answers
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Finding a substring in files across subdirectories with a single built-in command?
In Windows, if I wanted to find a string across all files in all subdirectories, I would do something like
findstr /C:"the string" /S *.h
However, in Linux (say, Ubuntu) I have found no other way ...
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How can I find all files that do NOT contain a text string?
What concise command can I use to find all files that do NOT contain a text string?
I tried this (using -v to invert grep's parameters) with no luck:
find . -exec grep -v -l shared.php {} \;
...
6
votes
2answers
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How do I stop a find from descending into found directories?
I'm wanting to find all directories with a specific string so I can do another find on the files contained within.
So I don't want to waste time on ./my-search-term/dir/my-search-term etc.
How can I ...
5
votes
4answers
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find not recursive when file at top
Imagine a source tree. There are xml files everywhere.
But since there is a XYZ.xml at the root of this tree it won't find my xml files.
find -iname *.xml
returns
./XYZ.xml
instead of
...
5
votes
2answers
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Where does grep -r search by default?
I found if I search using grep without specifying a path, like grep -r 'mytext' it takes infinitely long. Meanwhile if I search with path specified grep -r 'mytext' . it instantly finds what I need. ...
5
votes
4answers
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Find a string only in a specific file inside subdirectories
Let's say I need to find the function GetTypes() in all C# source file (.cs) the directories/subdirectories.
I used grep -rn GetTypes *.cs, but I got an error with grep: *.cs: No such file or ...
5
votes
3answers
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Find files with same name but different content?
I want to generate a list of files that have:
Same name
Different content
in a directory (including all children directories and content).
How to do? Bash, perl, anything is fine.
So, two ...
5
votes
1answer
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Search for a string in files recursively in BusyBox 1.0? [duplicate]
Possible Duplicate:
How to grep a text recursively on BusyBox 1.0?
How can I search for a string in a file recursively in BusyBox 1.0 if find and grep are not available ?
(I want to telnet ...
4
votes
2answers
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Difference between cp -r and cp -a
Looking for the difference between cp -r and cp -a? What does recursive mean in terms of copying files from a folder?
4
votes
3answers
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recursively copy only images and preserve path
I'm working on a website migration. I have a scrape of the site, with all the files and directory structure as you would see them in the URL. I want to pull all images, maintaining the directory ...
4
votes
2answers
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How can I move a directory onto an existing directory?
I need to essentially merge changes on two trees, applying the changes from branch 2 to branch 1. I have trees like this:
media
├── cd
│ ├── 0
│ │ ├── file1
│ │ ├── file2
│ │ └── file3
...
4
votes
4answers
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How do I recursively delete directories with wildcard?
I am working through SSH on a WD My Book World Edition. Basically I would like to start at a particular directory level, and recursively remove all sub-directories matching .Apple* - how would I go ...
4
votes
2answers
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Recursive glob?
I'd like to write something like this:
$ ls **.py
in order to get all .py filenames, recursively walking a directory hierarchy.
Even if there are .py files to find, the shell (bash) gives this ...
4
votes
4answers
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How to recursively find the amount stored in directory?
I know you are able to see the byte size of a file when you do a long listing with ll or ls -l. But I want to know how much storage is in a directory including the files within that directory and the ...
4
votes
1answer
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What is the tool that allows me to specify arbitrary directories using **
I once saw a colleague uses a tool which allows to use ** to represent any directories. For example: if a file called myfile.java sits deep inside:
src/main/com/mycompany/product/store/myfile.java
...
4
votes
3answers
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How can I list all *.doc files in a Zip archive, including files in subdirectories?
I have Zip files, that might look like this:
$ zipinfo -1 zip.zip
doc.doc
dotx.dotx
xls.xls
ppt.ppt
txt.txt
c.c
subdir/subdir2/doc.doc
subdir/xls.xls
subdir/ppt.ppt
subdir/c.c
subdir/txt.txt
...
3
votes
2answers
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How can I search a wild card name in all subfolders?
How can I search a wild card name in all subfolders? What would be the equivalent of DOS command: dir *pattern* /s in *nix?
3
votes
6answers
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Recursive search doesn't work for grep on solaris
On out Solaris server I'm finding that grep -r doesn't work, which is the usual way that I used grep. It seems that egrep is the same.
Given that I have no control over the machine, is there a way to ...
3
votes
2answers
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recursive 'ls' giving absolute filenames
When I do 'ls -R' in a directory, I get something like
./dir1
dir2 file1.txt file2.txt
./dir1/dir2
file3.txt file4.txt
but I would like a command that gives me
./dir1/file1.txt
./dir1/file2.txt
...
3
votes
3answers
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Using sftp to Transfer a Directory?
When I try to use sftp to transfer a directory containing files, I get an error message:
skipping non-regular file directory_name
The directory contains a couple of files and two subdirectories.
...
3
votes
4answers
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Find file by a part of its content
I have many files in a specific repository and i must find a file which has a specific string in its content (actually referencing the file Version.cc.in). What is the best solution to find it?
3
votes
1answer
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Passing all files of specific filetype in current and subdirectories
I have constructed an elaborate 500+ character command with many arguments and switches to autosign multiple PDF documents.
I'm using JSignPDF and I'd like to use it's batch mode including the ...
3
votes
2answers
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Search string in many files on HP-UX
I need to find which files (they can have space in the filename) of a directory contains a string using only sh and system's commands (Perl is not an option).
For a few files, this command works ...
3
votes
2answers
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Fastest way to get list of all file sizes
I'm trying to create a graph of the distribution of file sizes on my ext4 system. I'm trying to write a script to scrape this information from my computer somehow. I don't care where the files are ...
3
votes
2answers
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Find files with same name but different extensions, send to tgz
I have a large archive of edited images from my camera, each image is actually a pair of files - *.nef & *.xmp. I would like to go through all the folders and then zip these pairs into single tgz ...
3
votes
2answers
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Track daily directory changes (and email them)
I have a Debian powered NAS server (ReadyNAS) with a deep file hierarchy. I'd like to get notified daily about what has changed in some of its directories and their subdirectories.
So if someone ...
2
votes
4answers
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How to remove all the files in a directory?
I am trying to remove all files and subdirectories in a directory. I used rm -r to remove all files, but I want to remove all files and subdirectories, excluding the top directory itself.
For ...
2
votes
3answers
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create md5 hash from a recursive file listing when some paths have spaces
I need to create an md5 hash of every directory and file inside of one main directory. The only thing that is keeping me from success is figuring out a way around files with a space in the path.
I am ...
2
votes
2answers
545 views
wget - How to download recursively and only specific mime-types/extensions (i.e. text only)
How to download a full website, but ignoring all binary files.
wget has this functionality using the -r flag but it downloads everything and some websites are just too much for a low-resources ...
2
votes
4answers
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Move all files with a certain extension from multiple subdirectories into one directory
Suppose I have a bunch of zip files in several directories:
Fol1/Fol2
Fol3
Fol4/Fol5
And I want to move them all to a common base folder. How would I do this?
2
votes
3answers
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Manipulate file name piped from find command
I'm relatively new to Bash and am trying to do something that on the surface seemed pretty straightforward - run find over a directory hierarchy to get all of the *.wma files, pipe that output to a ...
2
votes
1answer
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How can I queue up an entire directory for FTP?
Currently I know how to do this:
curl -T file.zip ftp://server.domain.com/ --user username:password
Which will let me do a single file. However I can't figure out how to do it for a directory. I ...
2
votes
3answers
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id3v2 used recursively at command line?
Trying to get my id3 tags cleaned up and am loving id3v2 on the command line -- but I've been using it only with a *.mp3 wildcard and want to explore if there's a way to use it recursively so I can ...
2
votes
1answer
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How do I create a local copy of a complete website section from OSX using wget?
This question follows from: How do I create a local copy of a complete website section from OSX using curl?
After discovering OSX's native curl wouldn't do this task I downloaded wget from here: ...
2
votes
2answers
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Searching for string in files
Is there an easy way to search inside 1000s of files in a complex directory structure to find files which contain a specific string within the file?
2
votes
2answers
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Search for file permisions other than 755
In AIX really, how can I search in several directories and those below it, for files that are not of the specific permissions of 755.
So I want to search /path/to/, /path/to/mydir, ...
2
votes
1answer
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Makefile $wildcard only matches top directory
I am trying to implement a makefile for my C project which has a directory structure as follows:
PROJECT_FOLDER:
folder1
folder2
folder // n number of folders
main.c
FOLDER1:
...
2
votes
4answers
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Find and copy directories containing file type
I have a directory "Movies" containing subdirectories "Movie Name". Each subdirectory "Movie Name" contains a movie file and related image/nfo files etc.
I'm trying to copy all directories containing ...
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vote
2answers
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Direct recursive shell script output to each subdirectory, not parent directory
I'm processing a batch of subjects data recursively, calling the script within the parent directory.
For example, I have the parent directory:
/home/subjects
and the subdirectories which contain ...
1
vote
2answers
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Excluding a directory name in a zsh recursive glob
I'm running zsh on Linux under setopt extended_glob ksh_glob glob_dots. I'm looking for something easy to type on the command line, with no portability requirements. I'm looking at a source code tree, ...
1
vote
1answer
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How do I remove a directory and all its subdirectories?
I'm trying to learn some directory navigagtion with bash and all I know is that
rmdir directoryname
will remove the directory but not if it's containing something. Is there a way to force it to ...
1
vote
3answers
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line count on all the PHP scripts within my webroot with wc
How can I do a line count on all the PHP scripts within my webroot?
I am trying something like this below to no avail:
wc -l *.php
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vote
2answers
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Search and replace full line in recursive files
I'm using:
grep -n -H -o -R -e textword .
List all file recursively under directory '.' with string 'textword' and show the file, line and only portion matching.
I need to remove lines that ...
