Questions tagged [filenames]
File name is a name used to identify a file uniquely on given file system.
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include special characters when sorting files
I'm trying to make Linux include special characters when sorting filesnames. The sort order I'm trying to achieve is: first all special characters, then numbers, then letters (case insensitive).
The ...
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chcon: cannot access (file): No such file or directory
I'm taking a Linux course and I have no idea on how to get past this annoying error:
chcon: cannot access path: No such file or directory
But before that we had to define our virtual host
Perhaps ...
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File name problem(?)
I have downloaded audio with youtube-dl, and then I wanted to change name with mv:
mv "Powerwolf - Resurrection By Erection-Hiu1hPdJk-Y.mp3" "Powerwolf - Resurrection by Errection.mp3
>"
But, ...
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How to get the filenames and their absolute paths in one line?
I want to list all the files in a folder and their respective absolute paths line by line as below,
filename1 /home/.../file1
filename2 /home/.../file2
filename3 /home/.../file3
I tried ...
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Is there a command specifically designed to manipulate file path strings, such as changing foo/bar/baz -> bar/baz?
I'm trying to modify the output of git diff --name-only from a subdirectory of a git project such that it only contains relative paths in the current directory. I know how to do this with sed/grep, ...
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Using “find” to delete files with a pattern of underscore/letters
Is there a way to find and remove files with a pattern like this (where the pattern is only that there are two underscores in the file name, separated by letters or numbers)
ex. /file_name_name
I ...
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Can you hide files and folders on MacOS the same way as Linux?
I'm trying to make a Python script that creates a hidden folder for a specific file I'm creating across any platform.
I'm aware you can do this easily with Linux by placing "." as the beginning of a ...
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Nemo file manager is completely ignoring `_` at the beginning of directory name, when sorting
Ex. suppose some directories are named
absorbing
appreciate
arrive
connect
depend
drop
few
fold
littlel
popcorn
shrill
sticky
In Windows, if I put _ before the directories, it would be at the top, ...
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“grep -Rl” results as vi arguments with proper space support
I am trying to do something like
vi `grep -Rl 'keyword'`
But I want to support spaces in the file names.
vi "`grep -Rl 'keyword'`"
Does not do what I need, it turns the grep output in a single ...
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Escape a mm/dd/YY backup date in a file name
I have been trying to:
cp file.csv file.$(date +%D).csv
But it fails because the filenames is: file.03/27/19.csv with the slash of separate directories.
And I have been trying again to:
cp file....
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Get list of folders that are after certain number
I have a folder which subfolder naming convention is like yyyymm for e.g. 200801, 200803 etc. I want to list down folder after 201412 via command line means to upload to S3. Is there a way to do it?
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Find fails if filename contains brackets
I'm trying to use find inside a loop to create a variable that contains a file matching the filename + desired string
Example:
file1.en.srt
file1.mkv
file1.pt.srt
This is the relevant part of the ...
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How to differentiate an executable sh file, and a source sh file?
I have sh files that are executable, and others that are only meant to be sourced by executable ones.
On the executable ones I use no extension at all, and have the first line as #! /bin/sh.
On the ...
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how to remove all characters after and including “?” in filename?
I have a large amount of files that were downloaded and ended up having what looks like authentication parameters added to the filename which I would like to remove. Examples:
file1.doc?...
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Print Folders Missing .txt Filetype
I have 150 directories in a parent directory. Some of them have .txt files, others do not. I would like to print which folders do NOT have a .txt file. How can I achieve this?
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Dot in front of file [duplicate]
If there is a file and the filename starts with a dot in front of it. Does that mean that you created the file and you are hiding stuff in it or can the files get created on their own without you ...
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How to shuffle file names randomly in a directory
Say i have a directory of filenames:
file_010.ext
file_011.ext
...
file_99.ext
What's the simplest way to take each file and randomly rename it to any other name in the directory, without there ...
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Filename with dot in front [duplicate]
If there is a file and the filename starts with a dot, does that mean you created the file and you are hiding stuff in it, or can the files get created on their own without you creating the filename?
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How to batch rename files in folder [closed]
I have a zip file where each file is named the following
original.jpg.1.png
original.jpg.2.png
The files are actually jpegs
How do I go about renaming them to the following?
original1.jpg
original2....
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Sort directories before files and underscore first with ls
When using 'ls' i want to sort directories first and then all files AND sort directories/files with underscore first. Here is an example:
_folder2
folder2
_file2
file
I can sort directories first ...
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How to mass rename files with regular expressions [closed]
I have a bunch of folders in a directory with files in them. Most of the filenames have region codes (retropie), and the scrubber will not match roms with single letter region codes (u,j,e,etc.). I ...
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How to recursively move one file type but only when another file type is also present?
In my directory tree, some subfolders contain both *.flac and *.mp3 files, but other subfolders contain only *.mp3 files. I'd like to move all of the *.mp3 files to another destination (a different ...
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I can see but cannot delete a file [closed]
I am running Linux Mint.I tried to copy a file with the file manager. It looked like it hung.
I can see the file in the directory with ls -l:
-rwxr-xr-x 1 mike domain^users 20 Mar 1 08:57 'output (...
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Why does Linux allow a symbolic link to itself?
Because of a typo I found out that this is allowed: ln -s useless useless.
Then, as expected ls useless/* triggers this error message:
ls: cannot access 'useless/*': Too many levels of symbolic ...
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What is wrong with my use of “find -print0”? [closed]
I'm confused by this experiment (in Bash):
$ mkdir 'foo\n'
$ find . -print0 | od -c
0000000 . \0 . / f o o \ n \0
0000012
As you can see, "find" is correctly delimiting the output ...
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Finding a rogue script changing filenames?
I've got a server that is used as an SFTP endpoint and a script living somewhere else that periodically uploads to the server.
At a particular time every day all the files in the upload folder get ...
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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 ?
