Globbing means matching files by name patterns containing wildcards.
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what is wild card to select all directories in a directory
i want to set sticky bit for all directories in a directory excluding files. is there any wild card to do this?
#sudo chmod g+s /var/www/<WILD_CARD_FOR_ALL_DIRECTORIES>
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imagemagick globbing multiple extensions
I have a folder containing photos coming from different cameras.
I use Imagemagick to convert to resized and renamed photos in another folder.
Something like this:
convert "*.jpg" \
-resize 640 ...
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Zip all files in directory?
Is there a way to zip all files in a given directory with the zip command? I've heard of using *.*, but I want it to work for extensionless files, too.
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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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Zipping files two by two
I have a directory that has 800 files like this:
file1.png
file1@2x.png
file2.png
file2@2x.png
file3.png
file3@2x.png
... etc
I need to create zip files like this
file1.zip (containing ...
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Avoiding errors due to unexpanded asterisk
In bash I often use for-loops such as the following
for file in *.type; do
sommecommand "$file";
done;
to perform an operation for all files matching *.type. If no file with this ending is ...
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Unix Command to return all files that end with single digit and TXT extension
Which command returns all files that end with a single digit and have the TXT extension ?
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Why doesn't 'find' show this file?
Using find with grep, one can locate files that match a pattern:
# find | grep error
./solr-modifiedSolr4/SolrPhpClient/phpdocs/errors.html
./error_log
./includes/classes/error_log
However, using ...
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unzip two different kind of file extensions
Note here, .zip and .jar is just an example, my file extensions are different. Suppose I have a directory which can contain number of zip files
a.zip b.zip c.zip
AND/OR
z.jar x.jar y.jar
along ...
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Using wildcards to match a directory in bash
Lets say the folder structure is like so:
/home/
--user1/asdf
--user2/asdf1234
--user3/asdf325234
--cool/asdf
How could I change to asdf1234 without specifying the user? For example:
cd ...
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Using OR patterns in shell wildcards
Contents of my dir are
$ ls -lrt
total 0
-rw-r--r-- 1 user1 admin 19 Oct 8 12:31 night.txt
-rw-r--r-- 1 user1 admin 19 Oct 8 12:31 noon.txt
-rw-r--r-- 1 user1 admin 38 Oct 8 12:31 day.txt
I ...
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ls: Do not show directories that match same pattern in wildcard searches, only files
Supposing I have something like the following, a typical business PC situation:
drwxr-xr-x 1 whatever whoever 3 Oct 3 16:40 invoices2009
drwxr-xr-x 1 whatever whoever 4 Oct 3 16:40 ...
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How to put the specific files from a directory in an array in bash?
Suppose I have a directory under which there are 3 files named: file1.txt,file2.txt and file3.txt.
Now how can I fill an array with those file names(I just know that all the files have certain ...
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HTTP Downloader that supports directory index? So that I could use globbing?
Is there an http downloader that supports globbing?
i.e. I would like to fetch the latest update of a package, abc-XXX.rpm, but the XXX (version number) is unknown to me. Is it possible to do a ...
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How to match case insensitive patterns with ls?
I would like to list all files matching a certain pattern while ignoring the case.
For example, I run the following commands:
ls *abc*
I need to see all the file that have "abc" as a part of the ...
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List only regular files (but not directories) in current directory
I can use ls -ld */ to list all the directory entries in the current directory. Is there a similarly easy way to just list all the regular files in the current directory? I know I can use find
find . ...
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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
...
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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?
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Fastest way to open all files in a directory with multiple file extensions on commandline
If I want to open all mp4 files in a directory, I can simply do something like totem *.mp4. But how can I open all mp4 and all flv files in that directory with one command. I.e. I want to do something ...
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Can I make `rm` interactive only when using globbing? (in either bash or zsh or both)
Whenever I rm multiple items at once with shell globbing and there's even the slightest possibility that the pattern expands to more than I expect it to, I always try to remember to add -i, but (of ...
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Extended file globbing not working with cat inside bash script
When, in my terminal, I type
cat ~/my/+(a|b)/doc
It reads ok from both ~/my/a/doc and ~/my/b/doc, but when I put that command in a bash script:
#!/bin/bash
cat ~/my/'+(a|b)'/doc
I get the error:
...
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Listing with `ls` and regular expression
How can I list files with a filename ending with last character and with .txt extension ?
I have tried ls *+([[:digit:]]).txt but this is true for abc12.txt and abc2.txt.
But I need to get only ...
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What does .??* mean in a shell command?
The following command will tar all "dot" files and folders:
tar -zcvf dotfiles.tar.gz .??*
I am familiar with regular expressions, but I don't understand how to interpret .??*. I executed ls .??* ...
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Get a list of 3 letter commands on Mac OS X
How can I either create or find a list of 3-letter unix commands on Mac OS X?
I'd like to create a new program/command for a project. I'd like to make it a 3-letter name, but I don't want to conflict ...
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remote execution via ssh doesn't follow links?
ssh server ls /var/lib/edumate/backup/weekly/*DBB* returns one file
/var/lib/edumate/backup/weekly/DBB.0.db2inst1.NODE0000.CATN0000.20120610020013.001
but ssh server ls /data/backup/weekly/*DBB* ...
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How to copy some, but not all files?
So, you can use the * as a wild card for all files when using cp within context of a directory. Is there a way to copy all files except x file?
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What is the difference between $* and $@?
Consider the following code:
foo () {
echo $*
}
bar () {
echo $@
}
foo 1 2 3 4
bar 1 2 3 4
It outputs:
1 2 3 4
1 2 3 4
I am using Ksh88, but I am interested in other common ...
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How can I make bash not match `.` and `..` with `.*`
When I try to match all dot files in a directory with .* it seems to have a nasty side-effect: besides matching all (real) files and directories, it matches . and ...
bash-3.2$ mv test/.* dest/
mv: ...
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What is the setting in bash for globbing, to control whether * matches dot files
I was surprised recently when I did something like
mv ./* ../somedirectory
and found that files like .gitignore were not moved.
I do most of my work in zsh on OS X, and this surprise bit me in bash ...
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How can I remove all symbolic links with a special target?
With the command:
ls -la *
I can list all my symbolic links.
How can I remove all symbolic links which are linked to a special folder?
For example:
In my directory usr/local/bin I have the ...
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Glob with Numerical Order
I have this list of pdf files in a directory:
c0.pdf c12.pdf c15.pdf c18.pdf c20.pdf c4.pdf c7.pdf
c10.pdf c13.pdf c16.pdf c19.pdf c2.pdf c5.pdf c8.pdf
c11.pdf c14.pdf c17.pdf c1.pdf ...
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Why does tar --exclude=“.*” create an empty archive?
Everything I read says that to exclude .svn and .htaccess and other hidden files when creating a tar archive, use the --exclude=".*" pattern.
When I try, I get an empty archive. When I leave out the ...
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How to enable tab completion of wildcards in bash?
How can I enable tab completion in bash for a statement such as vim db/migrate/*crea? Essentially I am looking for tab completion to match the regular expression and present the options.
How would ...
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Finding program name by wildcard pattern
I am trying to write a script that will attempt to find if a certain program is installed. Lets say that the program is called, myprog. The problem is that the program can be named in different ...
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Untar directory from large tarball
How do I untar a directory that I don't know the path to? I only know the directory name.
I know how to untar a single file with a wildcard: tar -xf somefile.tar.gz --wildcards --no-anchored ...
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loop to paste specific files in different directories
I some directories that contain a similarly named file eg (*Sample_name*.base.coverage.txt). And I would like to paste all of the *base.coverage.txt files together. I have something written, but its ...
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Bash globbing hidden files
I'm trying the following globs in a bash shell:
$ ls -d .*
. .. .a .ab
$ ls .a*
.a .ab
$ ls .[!.]*
.a .ab
$ ls .[!.]?*
.ab
Shouldn't the last expression mean "a dot followed by exactly one ...
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Why 2 linux machine behave differently with command of the same syntax?
I am using 2 machine , which is both Red Hat Enterprise Linux AS release 3 (Taroon Update 2)
( I check it in /etc/*-release ).
I checked they are using the same default shell by ps -p $$, which is ...
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Is it possible to reference the most recently modified file in a command line argument?
I frequently download PDF files with heinous numeric file names from my browser. These automatically go into ~/Downloads. Ideally I would like to just be able to open these files with:
evince "the ...
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Is it possible to change the order of a glob?
I am trying to show all instances of a particular message from the syslog in chronological order by doing something like the following:
grep squiggle /var/log/messages*
Unfortunately the glob ...
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Configure bash globbing
After coming from cygwin, I'm quite confused about the bash (version 4.1.5) globbing on my Ubuntu 10.4. I'd love one of the following two possibilities:
ignore . and .., match everything else
ignore ...
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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
...
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The best way to expand glob pattern?
I need to expand a glob pattern (like ../smth*/*, or /etc/cron*/) into a list of files, programmatically. What would be the best way to do it?
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How do I output a count of all files with “tty” in the filename in the Linux directory that holds files on system devices
I am having trouble knowing how to output a count of all files with “tty” in the filename in the Linux directory that holds files on system devices.
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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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List all the matched files starting from an index
In zsh, there is the [m,n] glob qualifier which works as follows:
[beg[,end]]
specifies which of the matched filenames should be included in the
returned list. The syntax is the same as for ...
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Where did scp put these files?
I ran an scp command to download some files from an SSH server. Instead of using the . to put it in the current folder, I accidentally typed *. It looks like scp copied the files and put them ...
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How to pipe to multiple places with vertical bar?
I have a folder full of files with a .dot extension like this:
a.dot
b.dot
c.dot
I want to go through all the files in this folder and run a command on them such as this:
dot -Tpdf a.dot -o a.pdf
...
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How do I extract all .htaccess files from a tarball?
I want to extract all .htaccess files from a tarball, how can I do so? I see only one mention of "include" in the manual page of tar which is not related with an option for including only certain ...
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zsh: excluding files from a pattern
Say I have the following files:
|-- bar
`-- foo
|-- type_A_1
|-- type_A_2
|-- type_B_1
|-- type_B_2
|-- type_B_xx
|-- type_B_xx
`-- something_else
I thought the ...
