Questions tagged [file-management]
The file-management tag has no usage guidance.
0
votes
0answers
13 views
Store photo thumbnails on same drive
I'm using external drives and network storages for managing photos across multiple machines. Previewing them in the file browser (e.g. Thunar) is crucial for that. Furthermore, many of them are RAW ...
4
votes
2answers
86 views
how to speed up tar, just build a package without compression
I have a large folder, 2TB, with 1000000 files on a Linux machine. I want to build a package with tar. I do not care about the size of the tar file, so I do not need to compress the data. How can I ...
1
vote
2answers
56 views
Want to rename a files in folder with folder_1.txt folder_2.txt folder_n.txt name
I have 3 directories on my Ubuntu machine, named abc, xyz and pst. In each directory, I have approximately 7 files with different names. I want to rename each file like abc_1.txt, abc_2.txt, abc_3.txt,...
0
votes
2answers
28 views
same files from different directories
How to list and compare the similar files from different directories using single command on Linux?
Let's suppose there are three files a, b and c in directory /home/test and a, d, c files in another ...
0
votes
0answers
34 views
How to send by bluetooth from Caja / Nautilus file manager?
Would it be possible to add a menu item under caja-actions to send a file via bluetooth? Or could it be created under "open with"?
1
vote
1answer
99 views
How to rename files with sequential names to an another sequence using Terminal?
I have a directory that has files in it that are named 'o1.ray' to 'o293.ray'. I want to move them to an another directory while renaming them 'o132.ray' to 'o424.ray'.
How can I do this in the ...
0
votes
1answer
12 views
File popups freeze in specific directory and show nothing - how to fix?
I had this issue for months. Whenever I moved to my home directory within a file popup (from both qt and gtk), the window freezed and I could neither close it nor move to another directory. I just had ...
2
votes
1answer
155 views
Move command to transfer all files in a subfolder to parent directory and rename if there are files with same name
So I have a directory that has 77 subfolders in it on my Ubuntu machine, each with various amounts of torrent files in them. Total of 427 torrents are contained in the subfolders. I want to move all ...
3
votes
4answers
1k views
How to move files specified in a text file to another directory on BASH? [duplicate]
I have a directory with over 400 images. Most of them are corrupt. I identified the good ones. They are listed in a text file (there're 100+ of them). How can I move them all at once to another ...
5
votes
1answer
7k views
How can I sync two local directories? [duplicate]
I have two backup directories (dir1 and 2) on two different (local) HDDs and I want to create one of them. How can I really sync their contents so that both directories will have the same contents?
3
votes
2answers
1k views
How can I sync the most recent files from one folder to another?
I have several cameras that upload data to a Samba server running under Debian. The video files are initially uploaded to a larger external drive, but I would also like to maintain a copy of the ...
0
votes
3answers
290 views
How to move everything but the last files?
How can I move everything but the last n files, from dir1 to dir2?.
I currently do this, setting the time as an approximate for n, in my case n=2 each 10 minutes.
find /dir1/ -name '*.txt*' -mmin +...
1
vote
0answers
44 views
How to link the subdirectories only with maximum digit folder using linux command?
I have the following directory structure and I need to remove the minimum linked directories and keep the maximum one using the command line. How can I do it?
My directory structure:
prj38
|-...
3
votes
3answers
986 views
ls option to list files without reference to extension? [closed]
We use a numeric version control for files (ex: report01.log.01, report01.log.02, report01.log.03, etc.)
What I need to do is produce a list each file and the number of versions the file has.
Does ...
-5
votes
2answers
627 views
How to get Linux to display hidden files beginning with b?
I am currently taking a Controlled Assessment in a Computing GCSE and this is the task.
At the command prompt, type ls -a. Demonstrate and explain what
happens. Modify this command so that it ...
2
votes
1answer
105 views
Free space does not increase even after deleting
I had about 170 MiB free space in my Raspberry Pi so I decided to delete the .deb packages (about 800 MiB) in /var/cache/apt.
I opened sudo pcmanfm, selected the files and pressed the delete button (...
0
votes
1answer
151 views
Delete files if number exceeds 30 in number for different files in same directory [duplicate]
The folder gets populated some jobs that run daily, weekly or monthly.
For eg. daily job outputs be like:
daily-2017-16-08.txt
daily-2017-15-08.txt
Weekly be like:
weekly-2017-01-08.txt
weekly-...
4
votes
1answer
1k views
Document Management System for Linux
So I got a problem and I hope someone knows the answer.
Basically I am looking for a DMS (document management system) for my music and movies. I have a huge amount of files, currently in folders but ...
7
votes
4answers
17k views
How to sort files by part of the filename?
Given the files below:
ABC38388.SC01.StatueGrade_MKP
ABC38388.SC02.Statue_GKP
DEF38389.SC03.Statue_HKP
XYZ38390.SC00.Statue_WKP
How can I list them all based on the SC value, like this:
XYZ38390....
1
vote
1answer
46 views
Scan though directory of files and find replicates with same name and concatenate them into one file
I have a directory with a bunch of files
For example:
ExperimentA_Rep1.bed
ExperimentA_Rep2.bed
ExperimentA_Rep3.bed
ExperimentB_Rep1.bed
ExperimentD_Rep1.bed
ExperimentC_Rep1.bed
...
3
votes
2answers
1k views
How can I remove files which contain special characters and Latin-1 characters?
I have 2 files in a directory named App on my Ubuntu mahcine.
I want to remove those 2 files completely from that directory, but when I try to remove them using rm -rf, they are not deleted.
I can't ...
4
votes
3answers
673 views
Move unique files from a folder with duplicates files
Well to put it simply, I have duplicate files in a folder, with this form:
file.ext
file(1).ext
file(2).ext
file(3).ext
otherfile.ext
otherfile(1).ext
otherfile(2).ext
...
I want to move only file....
7
votes
5answers
8k views
How to delete files from a folder which have more than 60 files in unix?
I want to put a script in cronjob which will run in a particular time and if the file count is more than 60, it will delete oldest files from that folder. Last In First Out.
I have tried,
#!/bin/...
-2
votes
1answer
46 views
Copying all same files to one location and changing the file name to subdirectory_filename
I have conf.yml files in different folders as below.
/var/loyalty-badge/conf/conf.yml
/var/loyalty-level/conf/conf.yml
/var/promotion/conf/conf.yml
/var/featured/conf/conf.yml
Now I want all the ...
7
votes
4answers
6k views
Search and Delete duplicate files with different names
I have a large music collection stored on my hard drive; and browsing through it, I found that I have a lot of duplicate files in some album directories. Usually the duplicates exist alongside the ...
5
votes
3answers
14k views
How to delete old backups based on a date in file name?
I have a daily backups named like this:
yyyymmddhhmm.zip // pattern
201503200100.zip // backup from 20. 3. 2015 1:00
I'm trying to create a script that deletes all backups older than 3 days. The ...
8
votes
4answers
10k views
How to move all files inside present subfolders up here
I have 50 folders with some subfolders too, with more than 1000 audio files total. I need to remove all subfolders and put all files in present level. Tried mv */* ./ but it complaints: argument list ...
2
votes
2answers
2k views
Find unique files between two directories (recursively)
I am backing up files, and I have a lot of files duplicated in multiple locations. I've used fdupes to find duplicates, but I'm actually looking for some sort of inverse of this tool.
I want to see ...
1
vote
3answers
1k views
Renaming directory bash script - target … No such file or directory
I've been testing this on a simple directory structure.
I'm trying to change any directory and/or sub directory with the name "Season" to "Sn".
I got to a point where the script would change what I ...
-1
votes
3answers
277 views
match just one row in two files and return the whole column from file 2
If I have two files
file1:
Reference Position
905894
1197693
3703749
92108275
114940633
114940633
file2:
Mapping Reference Position Type Length Reference Allele Linkage Zygosity Count
...
231
votes
7answers
372k views
Remove all files/directories except for one file
I have a directory containing a large number of files. I want to delete all files except for file.txt . How do I do this?
There are too many files to remove the unwanted ones individually and their ...
6
votes
2answers
2k views
Alternative command for coloured viewing the size of all files and folders
Is there a nice alternative for this? I always use
du -shc *
to check the size of all files and folders in the current directory. But it would be nice to have a colored and nicely formatted view (...
3
votes
3answers
168 views
Copying all files from one directory to all directories under same parent directory
I have one parent directory /home/test and under that directory I have multiple directories. The names are server{1..10} and one of them server3 has few files which I have copied from remote server. ...
2
votes
1answer
740 views
Compare two similar directories and list differences between files
Suppose I have same version of linux kernel but I changed some driver lines. Is there any way to compare these kernels and list the results. The result would be helpful to go back if I changed a lot ...
2
votes
0answers
43 views
File viewer (not manager) with dual pane
I have multiple papers, in multiple directories.
let us call the papers A, B, C, D... and I have to write reports often, where I have to answer questions like Q1, Q2, Q3, Q4...
Now, what often ...
2
votes
1answer
842 views
RANCID like configuration differ for linux applications
I'm looking for a RANCID-like (http://www.shrubbery.net/rancid/) config management tool - the catch is that I want to manage config files for Linux applications like mysql, apache, memcache, varnish, ...
22
votes
4answers
6k views
Disable “Recently used” in GTK file/directory selector
Can I completely disable "Recently Used" feature in GTK's file / directory selector?
Sometimes programs default to this but since it's not useful in my work-flow and with the way I organize my files, ...
7
votes
4answers
5k views
How to disable trash can in Thunar/XFCE?
I found myself always holding Shift when I delete a file with Thunar (the XFCE file manager).
When I was using Windows I was always disabling "recycle bin" immediately after installation. I've looked ...
4
votes
2answers
6k views
What is the difference between > and >> (especially as it relates to use with the cat program)? [duplicate]
Suppose that I have a file called temp.txt. Using the cat program, I would like to add the contents of this file to the end of myfile.txt -- creating myfile.txt if it does not exist and appending to ...
2
votes
2answers
2k views
How to copy/move/delete files from the shell?
It's surely easy to do while using a graphical environment, but when I'm using the shell I have no idea on how to do that, I already tried to use copy, move, delete, and I discovered that these word ...
3
votes
2answers
754 views
Organizing messy folder based on filetype
I have music lying on my desktop and in my downloads and Music folders. Similarly, I have .odt files lying all over my home folder (mainly desktop). Is there a tool (preferably GUI so my parents can ...
6
votes
4answers
7k views
Copy a File From One Zip to Another?
I have a file named 'sourceZip.zip'
This file ('sourceZip.zip') contains two files:
'textFile.txt'
'binFile.bin'
I also have a file named 'targetZip.zip'
This file ('targetZip.zip') contains one ...
8
votes
4answers
13k views
Copy/rename multiple files using regular expression (shell script)
I have a collection of files matching a pattern such as 'assignment02.cc', 'assignment02.h', 'assignment02.txt', etc. I would like to copy/rename these files into 'assignment03.cc', 'assignment03.h', '...
84
votes
3answers
37k views
How do you run a dry run of rm to see what files will be deleted?
I want to see what files will be deleted when performing an rm in linux. Most commands seem to have a dry run option to show just such information, but I can't seem to find such an option for rm. Is ...
2
votes
2answers
640 views
Copy a file from a nautilus-script to clipboard
I have a nautilus script that generates an archive file based on the files selected in the nautilus window. This archive file is created in the /tmp directory. I want a way to copy this file to the ...
14
votes
5answers
3k views
How to de-unzip, de-tar -xvf — de-unarchive in a messy folder?
Usually, I unarchive things by $ mkdir newFolder; $ mv *.zip newFolder; $ cd newFolder; $unzip *.zip but sometimes I get lazy and just do in an arbitrary folder $ unzip *.zip so time-to-time messing ...
5
votes
2answers
4k views
Gentoo default application for opening files
On my Gentoo box running without a desktop environment, every time I try to open a file the system tries to open it with Firefox. I understand that without a desktop environment "open file" cannot ...
