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Bash Globbing Variable Substitution? [duplicate]
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Batch renaming files
I want to rename files using their existing name as a base for the new one.
So if I can ls these files with
ls blue*+(.png)
I'd want to rename ...
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How can we rename a file with semi-colon as part of the filename?
I tried to rename all file with extension "XLS;1" to "XLS" but it just didn't work.
I tried the following in cygwin in windows xp and they don't work:
mv *.XLS;1 *.XLS
mv *.XLS\;1 *.XLS
mv ...
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mv on a glob pattern does not work without sudo
I am using MySQL database on Ubuntu machine.
My MySQL data directory is /var/lib/mysql/ , since I have a database named "db_test" , so, I have a directory named db_test/ under /var/lib/mysql/ . And ...
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Splitting a large directory tree by file type
I have a large data directory (20-30Gb) on my Ubuntu 10.10 desktop machine that consists of many raw data files, processed data files, and assorted scripts, tables, figures etc. generated from the ...
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“mkdir foo; svn mv * foo”
I often want to do some variant of this idiom:
$ mkdir 2010
$ svn mv * 2010
Of course, I get an error because the glob matches 2010 as well:
svn: Cannot copy path '2010' into its own child ...
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How do you move all files (including hidden) in a directory to another?
How do I move all files in a directory (including the hidden ones) to another directory?
For example, if I have a folder "Foo" with the files ".hidden" and "notHidden" inside, how do I move both ...
