Questions tagged [directory]
A file system structure in which to store computer files.
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How to escape parenthesis in bash rmdir?
I have a directory that has a name like 10.2 (14C92) i want to remove using rmdir -rf (to include their content). I am very new to the linux command line so i do know how to pass a space with \ but I ...
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Recursive shell script to list files
I'm trying to write a shell script that lists certain types of files in a Directory (and sub-directories). I'm struggling with the recursive part.
Here's what I have:
#!/bin/sh
#download dir
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Files in /home disappeared after installing Packet Tracer [duplicate]
I was installing packet tracer on my kali machine and I extracted the packet tracer in/home and I was trying to install it in /home and suddenly I checked all the files in /home disappeared. I've ...
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How to delete all directories in a directory older than 2 weeks except the latest one that match a file pattern?
I have the following path:
/dir1/dir2/
In this path I have the following directories containing various (not relevant) application detrius:
follower1234 1-Dec-2018
follower3456 2-Dec-2018
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A specific directory is completely invisible to “ls” and “ls -la”, but I can “cd” into it
This started happening out of the blue. Originally, I was able to "ls" my "Storage" folder and all 3 subdirectories were listed accordingly. ('Beta Profiles' 'OS Backups' 'Software')
Starting ...
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Check if any file exist in a folder when traversing through it
I have this script:
local_dir="/some/dir1/"
cd $local_dir
for i in *.*
do
# do something ........
# [...........]
rm $i
done
It throws an error when the folder is empty.
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Tool for creating and calling folder structure templates?
Is there a Linux utility for creating templates for directory structures, outside of the scripts packaged with a DE like Gnome or LXDE? (I run openbox and would like to avoid a DE at all costs)
There ...
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How to create multiple directories in Ranger?
As in the equivalent of mkdir dir1 dir2 when running in bash. This creates two separate directories, dir1 and dir2.
If you run :mkdir dir1 dir2 in ranger, it simply creates a directory called 'dir1 ...
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print all 3-character-sub-directories using shell script in AIX
In my system, there is a /Test directory under which many directories are available. I want to print all directories with 3-character-name, in AIX system.
I got code for Gnu/Linux.
find /test -...
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Calling dir names from a paramater list file
Wondering if there is a best way to call directory names and iterate as parameter from a list.
Example
cat /dropbox/script/DirList.txt
DIR_A
DIR_B
DIR_C
DIR_D
/dropbox/dev/inbox/<DIR_A>/ *.*...
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Flattening directory hierarchy preserving directory names in new directory name
I basically want to go from this:
.
├── Alan Walker
│ ├── Different World
│ │ ├── 01 Intro.mp3
│ │ ├── 02 Lost Control.mp3
│ │ └── cover.jpg
│ └── Same World
│ ├── 01 Intro.mp3
│...
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Nginx requires identical permissions for a whole path up to a directory “assets” of my app to be able to read and serve assets
I have a web app in the folder:
/home/main_user/dir1/dir2/my_web_app/
In there I have an executable file and the folder assets.
Nginx is setup this way - to serve assets only:
location ~ ^/...
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Shorten very long dir name in bash prompt
How to get from this prompt
~/this/is/a-very-very-long-directory-name/dir
to this
~/this/is/a-ver...name/dir
in a bash prompt?
So shorten directory names longer than nn (20+) characters to ...
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How do I make a file in a user's home directory uneditable to that user but leave the home directory editable?
I've tried a LOT of stuff with chmod and chown, and combinations thereof.
I still want the files in the home directory of this user to be readable to the user, just not writable or executable. ...
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How to split a large folder into smaller folders of equal size [closed]
I have one big folder with many file types in it (e.g .txt, .sh). It's about 40Gb. I would like to split it into four parts of 10Gb each. How can I achieve this?
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Trying to remove current directory using rmdir
I created a directory dir at Desktop and then i keyed in cd dir so as to make dir as my current directory and then i typed in the terminal rmdir /home/user_name/Desktop/dir from the dir directory ...
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Using find to list directories that haven't been accessed since a certain date?
Using the stat command one can see and format the last date a directory was accessed. The adate
Is it possible to use find to find the directories that were changed before a certain date using a ...
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Unzip to a folder with the same name [duplicate]
How to unzip a file (ex: foo.zip) to a folder with the same name (foo/)?
Basically, I want to create an alias of unzip that unzips files into a folder with the same name (instead of the current ...
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Script finding the total size of a directory and checking if a directory exists
I need one additional line for my script that finds the total size of a directory and shows it in bytes and another line in the beginning of this script that checks if a directory exists.
That's my ...
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Complex nested for loop in directory
I have two sets of files in two separate directories organized as such:
#first directory
/direc1/files
file0.num1.tar.gz
file0.num2.tar.gz
file0.num3.tar.gz
file0.num4.tar.gz
.
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Where should I store my application files (data, cache, logs, crashes, etc.) [closed]
Although I did some research on this subject, I couldn't reach the exact information I wanted. Actually, not exactly disclosed, everyone approached in a different way.
For the: Filesystem Hierarchy ...
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find: exclude n different directories and m different files present at any level but include few files from some excluded directories
I want to recursively find all directories and files inside a path but want to exclude some other directories and files that match given patterns. I then want to execute further commands on the search ...
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I want to find if a word exists in a file
I have a directory with some files.
I want to know if a word exists in each file.
$1 is my directory that I give it as a parameter
e.g. ./myscript.sh /mnt/c/User/er/Desktop/shows
I have written ...
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Creating text files in every sub-directory
I have a directory hierarchy named, for example, abc and a text file names.txt. I need to choose several lines from the text file and then create new files with sample text, say "Hello world", in ...
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Meaning of dot (.) in The Following Examples
I would like to know the meaning of the dot (.) in the following examples:
dotslash at the front of the path:
cp -r ./dist/amd/ ../../aurelia-amd/animator-css
Is this equivalent to
cp -r dist/amd/ ...
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On FreeBSD, or other BSDs, what directory is commonly used for data folder storing the content of a database such as Postgres
I am wondering if there is a convention on where to store the data folder containing all the files for the tables and rows of a relational database system such as Postgres.
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Reconstruct changes to the crontab and a directory over 5 Months
Is there any way to show who moved/deleted/restored files at a specific point in time on a linux server and who changed the crontab?
Given the case described below, somebody or something either ...
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Exclude the specified directory when use grep [duplicate]
I tried to recursively search
$ grep -r "hold stat" .
grep: ./C/APUE/apue.3e/figlinks/fig14.21: No such file or directory
as a solution, exclude the dir with
$ grep -r "hold stat" --exclude-dir ./...
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How to make a certain bash script execute when I enter a certain directory? [duplicate]
I have multiple projects, say, in Python. In each project I have "scripts/main_script.sh". Is there any way to make "scripts/main_script.sh" execute automatically when I go to the base directory of a ...
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Move all but one sub-folder into that sub-folder
I have a directory named temp. Inside this folder, I have multiple sub-folders ( I don't know the exact number ). Now I create another sub-folder inside temp named Untitled. Now I want to move all the ...
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Bash script to move files into folder based on matching ID numbers?
On ~/Desktop/a/ , I have files and folders with this pattern:
500 photodir
Photo 500.jpg
1000 origindir
Photo 1000.jpg
I would like to have the .jpgs moved into their folders, using the numbers ...
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in ldap make the default bind the current logged in user
I do not want to specify a default bind_dn in the sssd.conf file for ldap (either openldap or active directory). Is it possible to configure the system in a way, that the first logged in user becomes ...
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Can bash make folders, based on a filename, and then move files into the folders?
On /Desktop/a/ , there is a set of files:
DSCN1840.AVI00001.png
DSCN1840.AVI00002.png
DSCN1840.AVI00003.png
DSCN1841.AVI00001.png
What I would like is to have the following structure:
Desktop/a/...
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Number of home directories in children of /
I have to count the number of children directories of / that contain one or more home directories.
For instance, if john, emily and rick have their home directories in /home/john , /home/emily and /...
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Delete directories if they do not have newer files
I want to delete directories only if they have not changed in the last N days. And by changed I mean contain any files that are more recent than N.
I constructed something similar / found this but ...
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Permission needed to create/remove file in a directory with sticky bit set
I understand that creating/removing a file from a directory with sticky bit set requires one of the followings
you are root
you are the owner of the file
you are the owner of the directory
and you ...
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Why ls without -l return 1 when permission to directory is r--
I have read this and this, and found that my problem is different and more specific.
I understand the following points.
+x on the directory grants access to files inodes through this specific ...
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Is there some tool for finding files in one directory but not in the other? [duplicate]
I would like to write a bash script to find those files in a directory but not in another directory.
Does the following script work? When does it not?
for i in "$1"/*; do
f=$(basename $i);
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Find files in specific directories
I have a college exercise which is "Find all files which name ends in ".xls" of a directory and sub-directories that have the word "SCHEDULE", without using pipes and using only some of the commands ...
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Why `ls -d` only demonstrate `.`?
I'd like to only the directory
$ ls -d
.
#get . on macos
and the same on centos
[root@iz2ze9wve43n2nyuvmsfx5z ~]# ls -d .
.
I find the solution:
[root@iz2ze9wve43n2nyuvmsfx5z /]# ls -d */
bin/ ...
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How could I copy the same directory multiple times but with a different name?
I have a directory called 400K that has some files in it, I want to copy this directory multiple times but with different names.
I want something like:
cp -r 400K 500K 600K 700K
I was considering ...
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Symbolic Link: Have all programs “think” the target path was entered directly
(Linux Mint, 18.3, based off of Ubuntu 16.mumble)
TL;DR
I want apps to open a symlink path and not "know" that it's a symlink, but believe that I opened the destination directory directly.
Wordy:
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Permissions from file and sub directory for all users inherit permanet
Hi I have a directory /home/nvs-upload/media/ImageFtp/ and the directory ImageFTP have many sub directory. The issue than I have is than a job run and add new sub directory it add to the new directory ...
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Is “dir” command output same accross all distributions of Linux (such as Ubuntu)?
I'm preparing a batch compiling sh file in Ubuntu. It is using dir command to get a list of files (and some string processing to extract names). But this may not be the best way (but easy enough) of ...
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How can I be able to `mv` a directory owned by root? [duplicate]
System: Linux Mint 19.
Situation: I do not understand the following.
How can I be able to mv a directory owned by root?
Some information, that might be useful:
Actual working directory:
$ pwd
/...
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Is pCloudDrive really inaccessible to root?
pCloud is a cloud storage service that allows Linux users to mount their cloud storage inside of their home directory, appearing as:
/home/username/pCloudDrive/
As far as I can tell, the pCloudDrive ...
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Shell script to move empty folders into a subfolder
I have many empty folders that I do not want to delete but move to a subfolder called "my_empty_folders". How can I do that in a shell script?
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Cut path to first four directories
I have several projects where I have to use the same command.
The projects always are in
/home/[username]/public_html/[prjectname]/
I'd like to run this command from every directory of my projects, ...
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How to list directories with particular depth? [duplicate]
I want to list only those directories which are a particular depth from current directory.
Let's say depth=2
The directories listed can be:
./abc/abc
./xyz/xyz
If depth is 3
./mvd/123/abc
etc.
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How to delete all directories inside a directory except for files, (safely)?
Environment
System: Linux Mint 19 Cinnamon.
Shell: Bash version 4.4.19(1).
Problem
Along with hundreds of testing scenarios, I must have created countless of temporary installation directories ...
