Questions tagged [filenames]
File name is a name used to identify a file uniquely on given file system.
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Make (`ocrmypdf`) command run in terminal AND include input name in that of the output
I have this line inside a Dolphin service-menu file that contains many other commands for PDF processing:
Exec=bash -c 'f="%u"; ocrmypdf "$f" "${f%.pdf}_ocr.pdf";'
It ...
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CUPS - Display filename in the Joblist
Is there an option to display the printed filename in the CUPS job list? From the job list, based on the filename user would select the files to be reprinted. Earlier we were able to achieve this when ...
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How can I remove files that have an unknown number in them?
I have some code that writes out files with names like this:
body00123.txt
body00124.txt
body00125.txt
body-1-2126.txt
body-1-2127.txt
body-1-2128.txt
body-3-3129.txt
body-3-3130.txt
body-3-3131.txt
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Split file with both post and prefix
How can I split file in Linux with number increment between post and prefix
For example
split -b 10M MyImages.tar.gz "MyImages*.tar.gz"
Result
MyImages01.tar.gz
MyImages02.tar.gz
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List and count subdirectories that have files with same name character on string
Picture this:
|-Main_folder
|- Folder1
|- E_1
|- E_1_A
|- file_E_1_A_F_1
|- file2_E_1_A_F_2
|- file3_E_1_A_F_3
|- E_1_B
|- file1_E_1_B_F_1
|- ...
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Prevent process from overwriting files
The setting
Let's say I have an executable file, let's call it program, whose source code is unavailable (maybe proprietary/legacy).
Each time this program is executed, it generates a file, let's call ...
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Can't create files or directories that starts from 'com1' to 'com9'
I can't create folders or files named 'com1', 'com2', ..., 'com9' in my extended hard drive. I'm trying to create a Wine prefix on my other drive where my games are stored, but I get some errors.
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Problem with sample names in the file created using awk
I have some data like below:
dir1
|___dir2
|___dir3
|____files
|____TGH4_1.tar.gz
|____TGH4_2.tar.gz
|...
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How to find (and rename) files with invalid characters (Latin1) on UTF-8 system?
I've got some old files from a Latin1 based system with names that are invalid on my UTF-8 system. They show as various codes or question marks. For example:
/tmp/test $ ls -1
'FRg_Pause lecture_'$'\...
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Moving files based on filename
I have folder with .tif files that I want to move based on their filename to a folder with same name.
Example file 123456789_002.tif --> dir 113456789 .
How do I get the first part of the file ...
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TAB expanding filenames after make command in bash
I'm preparing a makefile for converting org files to markdown files with the use of pandoc. Its content looks like this (note that conversion rule is just for a reference):
%.md: %.org
pandoc -t ...
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Shell scripting with brackets/parenthesis in folder names [duplicate]
I have a music library that I am trying to restore from backup.
The original source library was on a QNAP NAS and I copied it over to a CentOS system without any problems.
Now that I am trying to copy ...
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How to remove the dash for multiple files in linux
I'm having files named like HCW-00109-01.sam
I want to change the name of them into HCW0010901.sam
Can someone help me with this?
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find all files with naming pattern & create symlinks by trimming last part of extension
I have tree of directories with config files in each, like this
|-- dir1
| |-- file1.config
|-- dir2
| |-- file2.config
I want to find all files with pattern "*.config" and create ...
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Systemd service prefix on ExecStart=@/path/to/executable doesn't change the `argv[0]`
According to the manual man systemd.service using the prefix @ says this:
If the executable path is prefixed with "@", the second specified
token will be passed as "argv[0]" to ...
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output filename and 'found string' on same line in output file
Semi-newbie. Trying to automate something using an awk script. Should be simple - in theory.
Set of files, all ending in .lst. In each file there is a single line (out of hundreds) with a particular ...
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How to add incrementing numbers before file extension .mp3
Aloha from Hawaii,
I hope all is well. In terminal, am trying to make all the filenames of the audio files extensions .mp3, .wav, .m4p, .aiff, .m4a to be unique. I have thousands of them so in order ...
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How can I batch rename all files that match a pattern in Linux?
I have folder which contains many .mkv files that I'd like to rename without having to manually do so.
The pattern is this:
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[XVC]_Control_-_10_-_Doctors_[SCB055Y].mkv
[XVC]_Control_-_11_-...
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Randomize GIF JPEG and WEBP Filenames
I have a script that randomizes filenames with the JPEG extension:
#!/bin/bash for img in *.jpg; do newname=$(head /dev/urandom | tr -dc a-z0-9 | head -c 8) mv "$img" "$newname"....
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What is the practical purpose of "./" in front of relative file paths (in the output from "find")?
Why are some relative file paths displayed in the form of ./file, instead of just file? For example, when I do:
find .
I get this output:
./file1
./file2
./file3
What is the practical purpose, other ...
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grep -v [string] for whole folder
I have a folder, /path/ , with files all formatted to .filetype, and I am looking to perform:
grep -v [string] [filename] > [filename copy].filetype
for ALL items in this folder. I assume I'll ...
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Samba translates "::" in directory names to strange string
Samba automatically translates directory names containing :: to some weird string, and there is no direct mapping to a Unix name.
Example: ddrs04ia::ip76xddrshared_hiphdk_lay::...
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Basename of the root directory: why does it return the root directory itself?
basename / returns /, but the manpage says Print NAME with any leading directory components removed. Certainly / is a leading directory component and has not been removed.
What's the rationale behind ...
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How do I extract the filename from a path in Awk if I have different length filenames with a path? [duplicate]
I have an Awk script that counts the average of rows from every file from a given directory and its subdirectories and I have to print the filename and the average from a file like this
example.c : 5
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How to XOR two expressions of `test`?
I need to check that a directory (let's call it dir) contains one of two files (let's call them filea and fileb), but neither none nor both.
The ideal solution would be to use a XOR operation between ...
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Delete a file called '.env'$'\r'
I have no idea what created this file - I guess a terrible shell script.
It is called '.env'$'\r'
I have tried various versions of rm, and the technique of opening the direcory with vim ./, selecting ...
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What is the colon in postgres' process command-lines?
For example Postgres process command-lines are like
postgres 794 1 0 Nov06 ? 00:00:03 /usr/pgsql-9.3/bin/postgres -D /var/lib/pgsql/9.3/data -p 5432
postgres 857 794 0 Nov06 ? ...
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How to find (and move) all duplicate file names [duplicate]
Due to moving files back and forth from my Linux PC to a Mac, I now have a few documents that duplicate. Their names seem identical, but apparently they are codified slightly differently, like in this ...
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awk how to set the format output filename for multiple output
I have a file (file.csv) which looks like this:
abc 123
abc 001
abc 014
bos 011
bos 034
bos 079
bos 004
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PS: column 1 of file.csv has 27297 unique words in total, and file.csv has 789234 rows in ...
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Handle names with spaces when iterating recursively over files [duplicate]
I am trying to recursively convert all .mkv files in a folder structure with subfolders to .mp4.
I got a standard line that works in just the present folder
for video in *.mkv; do ffmpeg -i "$...
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looping through filename [closed]
I need to use a function that has as input multiple files. These files are related by the filename (e.g. dog1_animal.txt, dog2_animal.txt, dog3_animal.txt, cat1_animal.txt, cat2_animal.txt, ...
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What are the implications of adding "./" to relative symbolic links?
I noticed that when I create relative symbolic links, starting the source path with ./ keeps it that way and starting with an alphanumeric character keeps it that way, despite them both meaning the ...
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How rename files in two subdirectories which have the same name?
I have two subdirectories, s1 and s2, and each has files named file_1 and file_2 in them. How do I change the names of these files into, let's say, s1_file1, s1_file2, and s2_file1, s2_file2, such ...
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Remove particular words from filenames
I have a file named
[ NarutoG] Naruto - 084 Roar, Chidori! Brother vs. Brother! [720p] [x265] [pseudo].mkv
I want to change it to
Naruto - 084 Roar, Chidori! Brother vs. Brother!.mkv
I have ...
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How to zip specific individual files in a directory
for example, this folder ~/folder1/folder2 contains a lot of files like:
abc_0101.txt abc_0102.txt ...
abc_0201.txt abc_0202.txt ...
abc_0301.txt abc_0302.txt ...
abc_0401.txt abc_0402.txt ...
how to ...
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Ubuntu and Debian have different character encoding for filenames
I am mounting a NFS filesystem to a Debian, an Amazon Linux and an Ubuntu file system and they are showing different character encoding for file name.
An example file is displayed as follows in the ...
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Convenient way to have selected files shown in the beginning of file lists in file managers?
In Windows if one wishes certain file (or directory) to be shown in the beginning of file lists in a file manager (no matter which one, really), one may choose to put the underscore character in the ...
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print part of file name in the middle
I have several files with names as:
ID_Italy.txt
ID2_USA.txt
ID3_Germany.txt
.....
if I want to print before the _ I can do:
for file in *.txt; do print "${file%_*}";done
Output:
ID
ID2
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loop through current directory store directory and subdirectory name in a array without duplicates
I have a scenario where I am looping through all directories and subdirectories in a given path; if a file with specific extension (.txt) is found, store the name of the directories and subdirectories ...
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Maintenance script location
I have a bunch of maintenance scripts that are typically only run by cron or root. I had been putting them in /usr/local/sbin but honestly, I don't want them in the path. Normal users can't (and don'...
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How to find a file without showing "/"
im a beginner and I have no idea about the syntaxe of script shell Linux.
I have to show only files ending with (.sh) which is already done.
but these file ending with (.sh) their names has to be ...
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Append (rename) and move files based on the directory name in their path
Goal: Append (rename) and move only those files whose path contains a specific directory name, at any level.
Extracting files from trees based on directory names. From years of periodic mobile backup, ...
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Bash script to read all files in a directory, adding their filenames into a string for use in a command line argument
I have a bash script that does something like this:
java -jar executablefile.jar --width 100 --speed 50 --ouput outfile.mp4 --input file1.dat file2.dat file3.dat (etc)
I am able to read all the files ...
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Multiple column alphabetical and numerical sort
I want to sort
based on the file name.
For the case where the file name prefix matches and the file ends in a number, I would like to have those numerically sorted based on the number at the end of ...
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Equal sign as file name separator: are there any caveats? [duplicate]
Currently I have a recursive directory of files that looks like the following
foo_1/bar_1.txt
foo_1/foo_2/bar_2.txt
foo_1/foo_2/bar_2a.txt
foo_1/foo_2/foo_3/bar_3.txt
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I need to use a bash script ...
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General purpose file filtering tool
Lots of different applications have standards for generating sets of files, with files to be included or excluded specified in a separate text file. Git has .gitignore, Rsync has .rsync-filter, Plex ...
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View file names in hex?
I have some files with special characters like accented letters.
They are valid names, but for some reason when they are copied across the network to a drive, maybe in another format, the name still ...
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UTF file names listing in xterm
I noticed that file names containing UTF characters have different listing results in my xterm & UXTerm.
The first and the worst of all is they are listed/output as 8-bit enabled ASCII characters ...
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Change number written in scientific notation in filenames
I'm going to make a video of image files, but the filenames contain numbers in scientific notation, so the ordering of the name will not be correct.
The filenames are in this format:
ABC_1.000000E-01....
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Bind mounts for renaming
Can I do a bind mount on file "b" from file "a" such that file b also adapts the name of file "a"?
Ex:
ls / a foo/b
mount --bind a foo/b
ls / a foo/a
