Questions tagged [recursive]
Operating on a directory and its subdirectories, recursively.
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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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Exclude the specified directory when use grep [duplicate]
I tried to recursively search
$ grep -r "hold stat" .
grep: ./C/APUE/apue.3e/figlinks/fig14.21: No such file or directory
as a solution, exclude the dir with
$ grep -r "hold stat" --exclude-dir ./...
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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 ...
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wget only parent pages using {..}
I have been trying to download specific pages in website.
The site uses common URL to go to next pages like below.
https://example.com/pages/?p=1
https://example.com/pages/?p=2
https://example.com/...
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Move all .txt files into one directory [duplicate]
I have almost 6000 directories with thousands of files:
all/recup_dir.1/1.txt
all/recup_dir.1/2.jpg
...
all/recup_dir.5987/1.txt
all/recup_dir.5987/2.txt
...
and I want to move all .txt files in the ...
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Fast string replace in recursive directories
How can I do a fast text replace with recursive directories and filenames with spaces and single quotes? Preferably using standard UNIX tools, or alternatively a well-known package.
Using find is ...
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How to chmod only on subdirectories?
Given the following directory tree:
.
├── d1
│ └── workspace
├── d2
│ └── workspace
├── d3
│ └── workspace
├── d4
│ └── workspace
└── d5
└── workspace
I need to set the permissions for ...
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How to iterate through dynamically changing list of files - Ubuntu bash
I have the function:
function vacatetmp () {
echo "Vacating TMP folder ${1}...."
for i in "$1"/*; do
if [ -f "$i" ]; then
caseit "$i"
elif [ -d "$i" ]; then
...
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Make all files in a dir executable (non-recursively) while strictly-ensuring non-recursivness
I grasp the heading of this question odd, but I do wonder if in some situations there should be a need to take extra caution and somehow "enforce" non-recursivness when changing permissions with chmod ...
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Recursively iterate through all subdirectories, If a file with a specific extension exists then run a command in that folder once
I need to recursively iterate through all the subdirectories of a folder.
Within the subdirectories, if there's a file with an extension '.xyz' then I need to run a specific command in that folder ...
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Accidentally created symbolic link to a folder in that folder
I was creating a symbolic link to folder1/folder2 in home-folder. But I accidentally did:
ln -s folder1/folder2
while in folder2 instead of in home-folder. So I ended up accidentally creating a ...
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why find is recursively listing .log files even though the search pattern is not quoted
The find command I am using is recursively listing all the .log files even though the matching pattern is not quoted. As far as I know, if the search pattern is not quoted, it will be expanded by the ...
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How to touch everything in a directory including hidden, like directory up `..`?
This question has parallels to question "touch all folders in a directory".
How to touch everything in a directory,
recursively
including hidden entries, like "directory up" .. and .
without de-...
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Just recursively changed the ownership of “/” to my own user by accident. How screwed am I? [duplicate]
Was messing around with an external drive and wanted to change the permissions of a folder. However, I accidentally ran sudo chown myuser -r /. I have never felt so dumb in my life. I immediately ...
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cp behaves weirdly when . (dot) or .. (dot dot) are the source directory
This answer reveals that one can copy all files - including hidden ones - from directory src into directory dest like so:
mkdir dest
cp -r src/. dest
There is no explanation in the answer or its ...
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How to create recursive function call in unix
#!/bin/sh
checking()
{
cd "$1"
for D in *;do
if [ -d "$D" ]; then
cd "$D"
for d in *;do
echo "$d"
if [ -d "$d" ]
then
`checking() $d`
fi
...
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Combination of totally opposite grep options
I did: grep -r -H -L txt ~
And grep -r -l -L txt ~
Does it lists all the files? Because I am getting a really long output.
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Start Recursive Script as systemd unit
I want to execute a script on startup. The script is recursive and calls itself.
When I added systemd unit for the same, it is executing but getting stopped in 1 min due to DefaultTimeoutStartSec. It ...
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How to remove all occurrences of .DS_Store in a folder
Think of it as going to the most high level folder, doing a Ctrl Find, and searching .DS_Store and deleting them all.
I want them all deleted, from all subfolders and subfolders subfolders and so on. ...
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Recursively find files by content
I want to recursively find files in my source tree by contents. I've tried the following using grep:
$ grep -rn printf | grep %s | grep bcm_errmsg\(rv\)
This returns me every line as I wanted but ...
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Rsync won't sync recursively two directories in 2 different NTFS partitions
I am using Linux Mint 17, arch x64. When trying to sync two directories from 2 different locally mounted NTFS partitions, it won't recurse, but instead copy only the files found in the 1st level ...
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Different behaviors between find -exec and piping through xargs [duplicate]
I wanted to recursively run chmod go+w in a particular folder including hidden files, and I first tried
find . -name ".*" -o -name "*" -exec chmod go+w {} \;
but I found that it wasn't affecting ...
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Using rename to rename files and directories
I'm using the Linux rename command line tool to search recursively through a directory to rename any directories as well as files it finds. The issue I'm running into is the rename command will rename ...
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If file data starts with a certain hex sequence, run strings command on the file
I want to recursively crawl a directory and if the file has \x58\x46\x53\x00 as the first 4 bytes, I want to run strings on the file.
