Questions tagged [filenames]
File name is a name used to identify a file uniquely on given file system.
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Given a pathname and a symlink to a directory in the pathname, is there a command which can return an equivalent pathname making use of the symlink?
Sometimes I have a long pathname, and want to shorten it by some precreated symlink to a directory in the pathname. Specifically, given a pathname /path/to/file, and a symbolic link /symlink to a ...
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IFS variable and filenames with spaces and newlines
(Using Bash 4.4 and 5.0)
I am dealing with the issue of filenames that contain spaces, newlines and backslashes. I often read the suggestion to use code like this:
oldIFS=$IFS
IFS=
while read -rd ...
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Grab last youtube video index and re-download .description
after I had download youtube videos with youtube-dl -cit -f 140 ' , I forget to download the .description as well... so I have bunch of files without description, I want to redownload the description ...
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Can't remove file from terminal folder
I would like to remove the .xlsx file below in terminal folder. When I right click and do delete, it gives error: no such file. When I do 'ls' in command line it is not listed either. I refresh the ...
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How to use the ls command to show all files except those ending in a specific string
I have a directory with files of all kinds and I wanted to use the ls command to list all of them, except those with a name that ends in .config, but I do not get how to do it.
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Why does scp's strict filename checking reject quoted last component but not others?
When I try to scp a file with a slash in its path, the path is quoted for the local host, and the last path component is additionally quoted for the remote host, like scp host:"a/b/'c'" ., it fails ...
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Add file number to beginning of each file in directory [duplicate]
If I have a directory, how do I add the number of the file to beginning of the filename? For example, the directory would look something like this:
file.txt
another_file.txt
And the expected output ...
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What distro allows you to create a folder and a file with the same exact name?
I am trying to figure out which distro this script (scene_splitter.sh) was built for. Everytime I try to use it I get the following error.
x@x-pc:/media/x/WD_2TB_HDD/test$ ./scene_splitter.sh 001.mp4
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How to list all filenames in the system [closed]
I want to perform checks on all files in the system. For that I need the full paths of all files in the system. My initial idea was to do something like this:
for file in $(sudo find / ); do
if [ -...
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How to save a web resource, applying decoding to URL Encoded Characters?
I would like to save this file with this URL "http://pti.regione.sicilia.it/portal/page/portal/PIR_PORTALE/PIR_LaStrutturaRegionale/PIR_AssessoratoEconomia/PIR_DipBilancioTesoro/PIR_Areetematiche/...
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awk/sed part of filename
I want to awk/sed only prefix of name of files, whenever I put a filename as a parameter to my command line.
For example,
I have multiple files:
a.fastq.gz
b.fastq.gz
c.fastq.gz
d.fastq.gz
If I ...
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How to sort files in unix
I have files in the following manner
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Finding specific string in XML file and storing in another file [closed]
Text in input file is like this
<title>
<band height="21" isSplitAllowed="true" >
<staticText>
<reportElement
x="1"
y="1"
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Hebrew (Unicode) file-name support on CentOs 7
I have a VPS with CentOS 7 installed.
I am trying to upload to the server a file that has a Hebrew name.
I tried to upload it via FTP (Pure-ftpd) and I get: Failed to convert command to 8 bit charset.
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linux find command for filenames without extension for unknown extensions
I like using the following command to print file names but it prints them with extensions.
find . -type f -printf '%f\n'
In my directory, there are many files with different extensions. I tried ...
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Remove part of name after regex
I have a number of video files using a naming scheme like
some-words-SxxExx.extension
which is my preference. Unfortunately I have a lot of files in this format
some-words-SxxExx-words-I-want-to-...
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How do I find a file whose name has five digits, in a row, somewhere in the file name?
Normally, I would ask a professor or classmate this, but as it's a Saturday and everyone is gone. I have to find a file in a directory that has five digits in a row somewhere in the file name. They ...
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Convert filenames to comply with cross-platform standarts [closed]
I have lots of scientific articles on the disk that contain semicolons and other characters not so welcome on alternative platforms (even on Android via MTP).
How do I automatically convert all ...
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Find a filename in a directory excluding zeros that appear in the beginning of the filename
I have a directory with file names as " 202.png, 405.png, 0052.png, 04050.png, ......
I need a find command to find filenames excluding zeros that appear in the beginning of the file name.
For example ...
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Move all files NOT ending with .txt [duplicate]
In the directory /home/username/data I have both files and directories. Some of these filenames end in .txt (to which I'll refer as text files), others don't. The same happens in the subdirectories.
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Count the number of files and folders containing a certain string
Let's say I'm in the Desktop directory and want to count the number of files and directories whose name is exam. It should also count the files containing the string exam. So to sum it up I need to:
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Renaming files by extracting parts of filenames that match with a pattern
I want to know which command I can use to rename files like this.
Let's say, for instance, the old filenames are:
0_predict-1-500.png
0_predict-2-500.png
0_predict-3-500.png
1_predict-1-500.png
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Bash - replace spaces with underscore but replace multiple spaces with one
I use rename to underscore spaces in filenames, simply with:
rename "s/ /_/g" *
but I encounter the problem that files downloaded from the internet often have multiple spaces. A nasty workaround I ...
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Why does awk stop and wait if the filename contains = and how to work around that?
awk 'processing_script_here' my=file.txt
seems to stop and wait indefinitely...
What's going on here and how do I make it work ?
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Reading full Names in an Archive or ISO image?
I recently installed Ubuntu 18.04 on my Laptop wanting to learn Linux. I have some Video Courses in ISO Images; whenever I want to extract files from them, I don't get full names for some reason. I ...
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Linux grep for file starting with certain letter AND contain certain words
Trying to search a file directory for file names beginning with "h" and containing "enu"?
So far this is what I've got, I just don't know how to handle both grep statements in one command line?
find ...
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Remove files in linux with different folder files to delete in a folder as particular folder
I want to remove multiple (all) files with different suffixes (.log,.bin) in a particular directory (/home/username) in a one-line command. How could I do that?
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Want to edit a file content for Removing the string after the last underscore and before the file extension using Unix commands
I want to edit the file contents in the 2nd row and 2nd column ,which is a file name from that I want to remove the part after the last underscore and before the file extension .
The contents of the ...
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Rename multiple files using sed command after removing the string after the last underscore [closed]
I have a set of files in a directory as shown below and I want to remove the string after the occurrence of the last underscore from it. The string may be different each time. It will be good if it ...
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Sorting filenames uniquely
I have searched for the solution but couldn't find answer to my problem.
I have thousands of file in a directory. Filenames are in the below format
74687_1543944930857.txt
74687_1543945090451.txt
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Check that 2 arrays of file names are the same
So I have the following:
cat file | grep -E regex
which gives a list of lines
Now I also have a for loop the produces a list of files
So it is like I have 2 arrays.
But how do I check in bash if ...
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Rename Files to Same Filename Without Extension with find Command
I'd like to rename a group of files to their same filename but without extension. They are scattered in my home directory and I don't know where they are located precisely, but I do know the extension ...
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How can I change lower to upper using (three) parameters in bash? [closed]
I have to make a bash script that will be changing files' names from lower to upper OR from upper to lower via parameters in command line. So when I put in command line:
./bashScript lower upper
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Eliminating multiple-extension file names from find output
I need to find the size of all files in /etc with the .conf extension. I tried to do this with find /etc -type f -name "*.conf" -exec du -chB1 {} +, but find gave me .conf files that have two or three ...
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delete then rename: same filenames different extensions
I have a directory containing thousands of files, each file has a duplicate.
An example:
file1.txt
file1.jpg.txt
file2.txt
file2.jpg.txt
I want to delete all *.txt files, and leave the *.jpg.txt
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Why does crc32 say some of my files are 'BAD'?
I used crc32 to compare some files with a backup of them. Out of 3556 files, 11 were reported as 'BAD' as in the following example:
9be46354 ./9836Feeding_the_dog_.mpeg BAD 9be46354 != ...
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Rename files on QNAP linux (batch)
I have a folder with at least 30 files.
The names are:
123456_12_12_AB12_NAME.mp4?BWSQv6seywG5ND2Myt7YM3JHPmaaNmtBRI0PcXbYpqoS01ivTvL0HCHvjfjFtOM9AMq7-kpHUZ0W_m8njEjqBkM9uyngsnKANw
How can I get ...
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using sed command to get after a /
I want to use sed for extracting the file name after the last occurrence of /.
For example
/usr/bin/file.txt
and the output should be
file.txt
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Remove files that start with but don't contain
I'm trying to remove a lot of files at once but need to be specific as to not remove any of the files I actually need.
I have a ton of corrupt files that start master- but there are valid files that ...
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Use negate ^ to get results which not contain specified charactres
I want to grep the files whose name not containing "^iX500"
$ cat note_list
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/Applications/ScanSnap Manual.localized/iX500ScanSnapManual.app/Contents/Resources/manual/basic/EN/ix500/images_mac/...
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Handling whitespace in filepaths
I have this:
muh_dir=`cd $(dirname "$BASH_SOURCE") && pwd`
and yeah I tested the above (it has backticks) and it doesn't work well with whitespace in the pwd.
On the other hand, this is ...
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How to find the filename without path?
Currently, I have a function to find the filename, size and type; however, it includes the path as well, which I don't really need.
find . -type f -exec stat --format="%n %s %F"
which returns
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Create a folder with all possible combinations of characters and numbers [closed]
I want to create a folder like "example.txt, example.Txt, example.TxT... all possible combinations.
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convert a md file in odt with correct name
I added this command in Dolphin menu for convert a .md (Mark Down) file to .odt (Open Document Text ) file:
pandoc %U -o %F.odt
and I get the right file, but with two extension:
fileorig.md.odt
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How to match a file name by specifying a prefix substring?
I would like to copy the files, located on a remote machine, whose filenames match a prefix string, on my local machine.
I have tried to select only the files whose names start with either massif or ...
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ls: ordering by timestamp (reversed) and if the timestamp is the same order by name (not reversed)
I'd like to order a directory by reversed timestamp, but if the timestamp is the same order by name (not reversed)
Using ls -tr if two files have the same timestamp order by name but in reversed mode
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Space after filename (Linux) [closed]
Whats different "name.txt" vs "name.txt " in Linux?
If I rename name.bin to name.txt - is normal and file doesn't executable.
If I rename name.bin to file.txt (with space after filename) - file ...
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find specific files and copy them to a directory in linux
abc-1.0.zip
kncb-1.0.zip
jenk-1.1.zip
I want to find all the above files dynamically and copy them to a directory except jenk-1.1.zip. I have tried the below command but it also copies file(jenk*....
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Filter file to list all paths in it
How can I filter text file to remove every thing and just leave the paths in it?
For example:
dslkjcblasdjncklasdnlc /asdds/ads/adss/sdf.jpg asljdascuashn sdkm
/sdf/dsf/dsf/dfs/sdfs.txt ,nbaskhdnasm....
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Tag files based on file name if no Title metadata exists
Is there a way using the command line to automatically fill in empty "Title" fields of the tags of music or videos with the file name? I have tried using Beets, but the only way to tag things based on ...
