Questions tagged [recursive]
Operating on a directory and its subdirectories, recursively.
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Is it possible to convert all video files in subdirectories on google drive using ffmpeg & rclone?
Currently I'm using this code whereby rclone fetches 1 file from my google drive, converts it using ffpmeg on a server and moves the converted files to the same folder. It's shown as below.
Step 1 is ...
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Updatedb on samba mounted shares
I have a few directories mounted from a samba share server (my lan storage) and I would like to run updatedb on them.
I use to successfully run such command to do that:
updatedb -l 0 -o ~/.myDbFile....
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Unix how to copy file to directory and echo
I am trying to write a script using a for loop to copy files to a directory that will also echo the copy command to the terminal. I have successfully gotten the script to copy files, however, am ...
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Append file name to beginning of [Markdown] file recursively
I have a folder with a whole lot of folders with a whole lot of Markdown files in each. What I'd like to do is recursively (if possible) prepend the file name as a heading in each file.
So, given foo....
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Recursive thumbnail creation to different destination
I wish to show my photo collection on my television. In order to do this, I need to resize the photos to fit in a 1920x1080px window (because the performance is awful when dealing with the originals).
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Flattening directory and renaming files incrementally (MacOS)
Looking to flatten the directory (with duplicate child file names) while renaming all files, keeping duplicates OR appending all file names with an incrementing number (incrementing # + name would be ...
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How may I emulate the -R feature of “zip”, but in gzip and xz?
The program "zip" has a -R feature which allows one to zip all files with a certain name in a directory tree: zip -r v/s zip -R
For example:
zip -R bigfile "bigfile"
Will zip all of the following: ...
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Moving all files with same file extension .txt to a new directory
Basically, my hard drive is a mess and I have like 200+ sub-directories in a main directory. I want to essentially move all files in 200+ sub-directories that have the extension .txt etc to a new ...
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Command to recursively delete all files with changing extension number
I know how to delete recursively all files with a specific extension, but how about if that extension has a number appended to it?
For example, how can I delete files named .d3plot1, .d3plot2, ....
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Recursively Find and Copy All PDF files from HDD to a Local Folder
I'm trying to copy all PDF files in an HDD to my computer, without losing any PDF files with different content but the same name, i.e. if I have 3 folders folder1, folder2 and folder3, each with a ...
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how to unzip a zipped file which include various zip level files in unix/linux? [duplicate]
For example my folder name is
Test.zip
Test.zip includes various zip folders like te1.zip, te2.zip , te3.zip
even te1.zip include various zip folders.
So i need to unzip in linux at once.
Could ...
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Sort output of find command, read back in to remove files
The following bash script searches through all directories and tabulates how many files are in each directory.
Sample output testing on my own R installation is below - exactly what I need.
find . -...
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Recurse massive dir structure, delete files over X days
First linux coding job.
Told to make a script for a chron job that
dives through all folders on server and deletes any files over X days (probably 20).
I have tested the code below on my home ...
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Wrong result when recursively count lines with wc
I am using the following Linux command to recursively count lines of text files in a folders structure:
find . -name '*.txt' | xargs -d '\n' wc -l
This outputs all found files and their number of ...
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How to recursively find file, concatenate into one file and simultaneously delete the original file
As I understand it, I could use
find . -name '*.txt' -exec cat {} \; > all.txt
to concatenate all the text files in a directory, recursively throughout sub-directories, into a file called all....
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How do I make this rsync command non-recursive?
rsync -avi --delete --modify-window=1 --no-perms --no-o --no-g
~/Documents/Stuff/ /media/user/PC/Stuff;;
i.e. to not copy sub-directories from the source directory?
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rsync only folders that exist in target
Trying to use rsync to move some directories around, and I'm a bit stumped. Using the --existing argument copies the files only if they exist in the target directory, but that's not quite what I'm ...
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Grep contents recursively, print only 1 directory level deep
I want to search within file contents, recursively on subdirectories, but I only care about whether the first level subdirectory contains any matches. That is, given:
ParentDirectory
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Copy folders to another set of directories, only if folders already exist
I want to copy (overwrite) folders from one directory to another set of directories, only if the folders in directory1 exist in directory2.
For example, I have stored some folders in my home ...
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cp -a doesn't work to copy all files inside a directory
I desire to copy all files inside a directory which has only these files (all are regular files - there are no directories, symlinks, etc, inside that directory) to another pre-existing directory.
The ...
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Recursively flattening subdirectories in a root directory and maintaining level 1 sub-directory structure
I have a large n-level directory structured as follows:
root
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subdir1
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sub_subdir1
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....(n-2 levels).....
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How do I write a shell script to flatten directories?
I wrote a simple script to delete useless files from a directory using the find command.
Now I'm wondering if I can add lines to the script to flatten directories, but not completely flattened.
e.g.,...
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Sort and mv files based on filename (with spaces), recursively
I have made a mistake and dumped files together into the same directory. Luckily I can sort them based on the filename:
'''
2019-02-19 20.18.58.ndpi_2_2688_2240.jpg
'''
Where the # bit or 2 in this ...
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Bash recursive call fails
I am writing a function in ./bashrc to switch environment variables, commands, etc. This function is supposed to set up the necessary variables then call itself. Instead I get
bash: ./bash: No such ...
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What is the meaning of -r and -R in copy command?
I read that they stand for recursively in the man page.
However, I am not sure what their role is in the command.
When I tried to copy some empty directory into another directory with,
$ cp EMPDIR ...
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Recursively copying a folder to an empty subfolder
How to copy all the content of the folder /foo/bar, which contains the file /foo/bar/a to an empty subfolder /foo/bar/subfolder without ending up with the file /foo/bar/subfolder/subfolder/a. Doing cp ...
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Move Files Recursively but only if they are not open by another process
I want to modify the script text below, to change the file permissions, owner and move it, only if the file is not open by another process.
cd /mnt/usbdrive/DVR
sudo chown 777 -R /mnt/usbdrive
sudo ...
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Recursively converting Windows files to Unix files
I have a PHP application with is located on Linux with multiple directories (and sub-directories) and many PHP, JS, HTML, CSS, etc files. Many of the files have Windows EOL control characters and I ...
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Recursive conversion of jpeg files
I use this commandline to convert jpegs to pdfs inside a folder.
for f in *.jpg; do echo "Converting $f"; convert "$f" "$(basename "$f" .jpg).pdf"; done
However, I would like to convert all .jpg ...
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How to run command recursively on files within directory and sub-directories within? [duplicate]
How can I run the command below recursively on all directories and sub-directories within?
[someone@someones-pc ~]$ for i in *.mp4; do ffmpeg -i "$i" -i watermark.png -filter_complex "overlay=1623:25"...
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Use SCP from local machine to recursively copy current working directory to remote?
Trying to do something like (in pseudo-unix):
scp -r <pwd> username@remote.com:~/<dirname of toplevel>
In other words, I'm trying to copy the current directory I'm in locally (and the ...
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Command “tree” vs “tree -R”
So I'm asking myself why there is the "-R" argument for the "tree" command.
The manual says "-R Recursively cross down the tree each level directories ...", but I don't see any difference in the ...
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How to recursively copy a directory using cpio?
How do I copy recursively a directory within the list at my-files-to-copy.txt?
cd my/source/dir
cpio --create < my-files-to-copy.txt | (cd my/dest/dir && cpio --extract)
my-files-to-copy....
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How to use istat on AIX like stat on Linux distributions
In Linux, I use the following command to show this output:
find /backup/$INSTANCE/tsm/* -exec echo '"{}" ' \; | xargs stat --printf "chown %U:%G '%n'\nchmod %a '%n'\n" >> /tmp/permissions.txt
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How to search for a folder or file in parent folders [duplicate]
I tried to search for a folder in its parent folders instead of its child sub-folders (usually any search bash command will do). I need to know whether any reverse alternative for any search commands ...
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Recursively rename all the files without changing their extensions?
How to recursively rename all the files in several layers of subdirectories without changing their extensions?
Below's a toned down version (to save room) of what I've got.
For argument's sake, I ...
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Wget: downloading files selectively and recursively?
Question about wget, subfolder, and index.html.
Let's say I am inside "travels/" folder and this is in "website.com": "website.com/travels/".
Folder "travels/" contains a lot of files and other (sub)...
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setfacl -R doesn't work on Cygwin
I want to change the ACL and the default ACL for all directories and files in a base directory. In other answers (such as this one), the -R flag is used. However, I get
$ setfacl -R -m u::rwx my_dir/
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Copying a source directory using the command cp -rsf when target directory exists
On Centos 7, when I use the command:
cp -rsf /path/of/source /path/of/target
When the target directory exists, files would go to /path/of/target/source.
How can I avoid that?
EDIT:
source and ...
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Copy files from a source folder recursively to destination/*file_extension*(ex. “txt”) folder
This is my code, something in the rec_copy() function isn't working properly, the extension named folders are created in the destination folder but the files are not copied there.
#!/bin/bash
if [ $# ...
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Limiting recursive 'aws s3 ls' searches by number of items in the folder
Here's the scenario:
I need to recursively search through tons and tons of folders and subfolders and spit out the results to a log file using the ls command, BUT, I need to stop searching a folder ...
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Bash - Recursive directory/file rename
I have the following script, that will replace all spaces in files and directories recursively:
################### SETUP VARIABLES #######################
number=0 # Number of ...
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zip files within all sub-directories of a given parent directory
Say I have a parent_directory/ with the following sub-directories child1/, child2/ and child3/.
How do I script to zip all *.txt files in childx/ into childx.zip
I also want this childx.zip to be ...
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substitute with SED recursively
Is it possible to substitute a sample recursively in multi directory with grep and sed like that ?
grep -e "http://localhost:4000" -r ~/dev_web/_site | sed -e 's/http:\/\/localhost:4000/https:\/\/...
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Recursively grep through epub files
I tried the answers here, but without luck.
find . -name "*.epub" -exec zipgrep pattern {} \;
showed me "matched", but didn't give me the matching epub file back. Also, it returned huge blobs of ...
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Inline replace comments in files recursively
I have tried using the cloc tool with the --strip-comments parameter, which is correctly stripping the comments from all files recursively, with 2 issues:
it cannot do it "in-place"
the resulting ...
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wget with acceptance test, redirect fails the test
I'm running the command:
wget -r --wait=2 --random-wait -P ./pdfs -A pdf -e robots=off https://www.<somesite>/documents
The command has worked on other sites to recursively download all pdfs, ...
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how to know list of file types under Directories & Sub-directories [closed]
Under CentOS, how to know file types under directories & sub-directories in one command?
Output should look like:
.inc, .inp, .odb, .a3db, .......
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Recursively copying directories with a given name
With a directory structure built using
#!/bin/bash
for name in A B
do
mkdir -p /tmp/src/${name}/copyme
echo "do not copy" > /tmp/src/${name}/no.txt
echo "copy" > /tmp/src/${name}/...
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how to untar specific files recursively in linux? [duplicate]
I have lots of tar(.tar.bz2) files containing multiple file types in a recursive directory.
I want to extract just one type of file(let's say .txt files) from all the directories. How do i do that?
I ...
