Questions tagged [filenames]
File name is a name used to identify a file uniquely on given file system.
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How to strip out white space of a filename
Opering System : RHEL 7
Bash Script:
V_No=10.8.3
BUILD_VERSION=`echo ${V_No} | tr ' ' '_'`
echo "File Name: Dev-${BUILD_VERSION}.jar"
output:
File Name: Dev-10.8.3
.jar
expected output:
File ...
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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
...
/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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Does Fedora restrict the set of allowed characters in filenames?
According to Wikipedia's article about filenames, the set of allowed characters in a filename may depend on various things: the filesystem, the operating system, an application or interoperability ...
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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 ...
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Using whoami to search for files that mention user
I'm currently working through some exercises to try and improve my shell scripting. The requirements of the script are as follows:
It must get the user's name using the whoami command and store ...
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Getting unique file names by specific paths only
I have a command where I get the count of all file names that begin with 2010
find folder_name/ -path '*/*/*/*/2010*'
This works fine and I get valid results. However, say for instance I have this ...
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Create a new file, but add a number if the filename already exists
Is it possible to achieve this from the command line?
Syntax: I can capture an image with the following command:
raspistill -o image.jpg
But I want to be able to run this command via cron each ...
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How do I display file names that contain two characters and one of them is c?
I tried doing ls [a-z][a-z], but it doesn't seem to be working.
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Creating empty copies of files with new extensions
I have AIX 7.1. Let's say I have a directory with files like these:
1.txt
lala.csv
I need to create empty copies of these files with a new extension in the same directory, like so:
1.txt.done
lala....
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Creating a file named '.' and how to read and write data to it?
How would I create a file named . (dot) and read or write data to it, given that . also refers to the current directory?
I know this is possible because I have a directory structure. I'm looking at ...
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Avoid listing of files that end with ~ (backup files)
My requirement is to list all files in a directory, except files ending with a ~ (backup files).
I tried to use command:
ls -l | grep -v ~
I get this output:
asdasad
asdasad~
file_names.txt
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How to get the filename part of a path from a shell variable
A shell variable holds a path. How does one get its filename portion?
In bash(1), I experimented and found that I can do it with ."${i/*\///}" where i is the name of the environment variable. Such a ...
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Find all the filenames in this directory that do not contain 'a' 'b' or 'c' in their name [duplicate]
I am trying to find all the files in my directory that does not contain the letters a,b or c; why does this command not work?
ls *[!abc]*
example: eg: MATCH: xyz, dkh, file, foo; NOT MATCH: bar, ...
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Unix/Linux - Advantage of relative path names over absolute path names [closed]
I am trying to figure out what are the benefits of using relative path names over absolute path names. I know what each one is.
I guess that it is easy to work with relative path names when we have ...
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Process a list of filenames to split directory and basename
I have a file containing a bunch of filenames:
$ cat test_as1
/var/incoming/foo.txt
/var/incoming/bar.txt
/var/incoming/baz.txt
For each filename, I want to print the directory name and the base ...
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Is it true that a tarball can change where files are extracted to regardless of the commands used to extract it?
I have a coworker who says you need to be careful extracting tarballs because they can make changes you don't know about. I always thought a tarball was just a hierarchy of compressed files, so if you ...
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Makefile opening in emacs, how to change?
I updated Ubuntu (technically Lubuntu) and now Makefile is opening in emacs. It used to open in leafpad. How to set it back? I checked the usual places, but I couldn't find any references in the files ...
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Grep Multiple Files with Dates in FileName for Certain range of Dates
I have a bunch of files with filenames like "Logger.2018-08-04_23:59:59.csv" and I want to grep a bunch of them at once, but only in a certain date range, e.g. 8/04-8/17. How can I do this?
I tried:
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BashScript move files based on matching part of filenames from a list
I have millions of xml files. The name of the xml file follows this pattern:
ABC_20180912_12345.xml
ABC_20180412_98765.xml
ABC_20180412_45678.xml
From this I want to copy files to a different ...
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Significance of .bak extension in Unix?
In computing, ".bak" is a filename extension commonly used to signify a backup copy of a file.
Is there any other significance of a .bak file in UNIX apart from changing the extension to .bak?
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How to delete or access a file with a backslash \ in its name?
I have some files here that I copied over to this linux box using the python module pysftp:
[jm@spartan tf]$ ls -la
total 0
drwxrwxrwx. 3 jm jm 69 Aug 14 13:50 .
drwxrwxrwt. 9 root root 238 ...
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Changing a multiple file extension using single line command
I have some files whose names contain multiple extensions:
$ ls -r
File1_345.R.12345
File1_3.234.R.6789
File1_2345.R.2345
File1_12345.R.12345
$
I want to rename them
to remove all the existing ...
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Unix command to remove space from a file name
I have a file whose file name has a space like First Name_20180810.csv. The date (20180810 in the above example) changes daily in the filename.
How can I rename First Name_*.csv to be FirstName_*.csv?...
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Copy the file 'red' to 'blended' directory in Unix? [closed]
Please tell me how to copy a file using relative path
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Making wget rename existing filenames sanely
When filename already exists using wget, it renames the file to filename.extension.1. Is it possible to make it rename it to filename.1.extension -- which should have been the default?
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How to sort ll output
ll returns this result:
51380224 Aug 3 08:23 tig_10.d1
51380224 Aug 3 08:18 tig_10.d10
51380224 Aug 3 08:20 tig_10.d11
51380224 Aug 3 08:23 tig_10.d12
51380224 Aug 3 08:21 tig_10.d13
51380224 ...
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Change some file names (prefix to postfix)
I have a directory containing thousands of files with names
t_00xx_000xxx.png and 00xx_000xxx.png. I want to change the names of the files which starts with t_, like t_00xx_000xxx.png to 00xx_000xxx_t....
