Questions tagged [file-management]
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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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What is the best way to find all the old files in a particular directory recursively in Linux
Currently I am using find command to find all the old files ( n days old ) matching a specific template in a particular directory recursively .
But this directory contains hundreds of subdirectories ...
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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 ...
