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Questions tagged [file-management]

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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 ...
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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,...
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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 ...
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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"?
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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 ...
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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 ...
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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 ...
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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 ...
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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?
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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 ...
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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 +...
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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 |-...
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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 ...
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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 ...
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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 (...
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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-...
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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 ...
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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....
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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 ...
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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 ...
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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....
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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/...
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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 ...
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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 ...
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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 ...
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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 ...
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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 ...
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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 ...
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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 ...
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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 ...
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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 (...
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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. ...
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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 ...
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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 ...
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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, ...
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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, ...
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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 ...
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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 ...
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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 ...
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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 ...
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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 ...
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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', '...
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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 ...
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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 ...
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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 ...
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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 ...