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How can you move (or copy) all files of a certain type to a directory in Unix?
I'm not very familiar with all the tricks of grep/find/awk/xargs quite yet, so be patient with me =]
I have a particular file type say *.xxx, in random places throughout a certain directory. How can ...
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Sublime Text 2: Editing associated filetypes in Plist.info won't work
I edit lots of .sass, .scss, html.twig files. And so I wanted to associate these with Sublime Text 2. Because by default some of them get the "binary"-icon, some the "blank sheet"-icon which sucks in ...
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How do I set icons and description of file types associated with Notepad++?
I tried using Nirsoft's File Type Manager to change the icons and file descriptions of individual file types associated with Notepad++. However, if I change the icon of one file type, all of the other ...
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How to mass remove symbolic links in Windows (amongs regular files that share similar name in many folders)?
Is there anyway to quickly remove many symbolic links in many folders that contains many other files. E.g some command in command prompt (be able to delete all slink created from day XX for example)?
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How do you search for specific text in specific file types? [closed]
Possible Duplicate:
How can I grep in source files for some text?
What's the command to search for specific text in specific file types, recursively, under the current directory?
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Filetype associations in Linux
I'm curious how file association management is implemented in Linux. Where is the related information stored? How do I modify it (I'm interested in non-KDE-based ways; I know there's a system ...
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Does there exist a folder content reporter with printing and filtering?
Is there a utility that will generate a list of all file-names of a particular type in a given folder, and allow that list to be printed?
Windows search fulfills my UI wish-list but the search ...
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Device manager is not launching by right click on My Computer?
I face this problem very commonly whenever I install the fresh Windows 7 it works only for a week or may be twice but after that it gives me error and all the time I've to run it through the run ...
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What is the default filetype association for .conf files?
I accidentally changed the filetype association on .conf files when I was viewing one. What is the default association for this type of file in Windows 7?
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Illustrator CS 5.1 Save for Web and Devices creates empty files
So, I'm attempting to "Generate CSS layers using Illustrator" following the steps documented here: ...
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Error adding right-click menu Edit option
I've followed the instructions to add an entry to the right-click menu, to add "Edit with Paint.NET" to the jpg right-click menu.
However, Paint.NET produces the error:
(The image type is not ...
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Manually change filetype icons in Windows 7
I'm trying to find the dialog tab in Windows 7 that allows a user to change the icon used for a particular file type.
In Windows XP it would be under the Folder Options properties dialog.
Where is ...
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Automatically set default Save As… image file type to JPEG in Photoshop on Mac OS X
In Photoshop, on Mac OS X, is there a way to have the file type in the Save dialog automatically set to JPG?
If not, is there an easy way to trigger an AppleScript program to set it that way?
Seems ...
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How to save files to different folders based on extension?
I'm using Firefox 4. Whenever I'm prompted to save a file then the folder is where I saved something the previous time.
How could I achieve that when I'm downloading for example an .exe file then FF ...
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Identify file found on USB sticks named “syncguid.dat”
All of my USB sticks now have contain a file named syncguid.dat. They began to appear when I bought a new HP Mini Note and I assume they are created by some of the bundleware that came with it.
But ...
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Windows 7 Search: Treat “.url” files as “Programs”
Is there a way to configure Windows 7 search (on the Start menu -- the "Search Programs and Files" field) to treat files of type ".url" as "Programs"?
The reason I ask -- I want to be able to enter ...
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Default saving type on paint windows 7
I saw questions about changing default saving file type on Windows XP paint, but couldn't find about Windows 7, so can I change default saving type from PNG to JPG?
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Adding file type to ack permanently
I've recently learned how to let ack support more filetypes (adding the following to .ackrc):
--type-add
latte=.latte
Unfortunately, that produces an info line on every ack search I use, even ones ...
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Help identifying file type
I've got a file that's got internet sites visited, I want to know what's the program that generates this file.
The file's lines look as the following.
11/28/2010 09:14:19 842 10.0.0.224 ...
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how to add types to “file types managed” in firefox?
When I click link to log file(I have a log of links like that) the firefox opens the file, but I want to just save it(like I do with PDFs). However I dont have log file defined as Manage File Type. ...
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Is it possible to change MS paint's default save file type to PNG [closed]
Possible Duplicates:
How to set default file format for MS Paint
How do I make Windows pbrush default to a save-as JPG format?
PNG is better than BMP in my work and I too often forgot to ...
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FileType_en_US_default instead of PNG
I just noticed that Windows Explorer (in Windows 7) shows the PNG filetype as “FileType_en_US_default” instead of the normal “PNG file” or whatever it shows in my german localization with Adobe ...
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create new associations in window7
I want to add a file type extention called .phtml to the set association page. In this case I want eclipse to automatically open Zend .phtml files
Control Panel\Programs\Default Programs\Set ...
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How do I find out which file type is taking up the most space?
I have a zillion little files in a complex folder hierarchy; these are taking up too much space (ie. terabytes). I'd like to find out which file type (ie., .pdf etc) is taking up all the room so that ...
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Vim: How to set preference for custome file types?
I can set the custom filetype settings for the know file types using the *.vim files in ftplugin directory, e.g. c.vim for (c, cpp, h, hxx), python.vim etc.
But I want to set the file types for the ...
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How do I change the application associated with a file type but keep its icon
Hi I want to change the default application for some file extensions but doing so also changes the icons (and file type information). Is there any way to do this without also changing its icon?
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File association and msconfig broken. Malware?
A friend of mine had an Acer laptop. It has Vista Home Basic. I can't get system properties open. Msconfig does not run. Also, exe filetype is asking me what program to run it with. How can I fix ...
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Windows 7 - File Type config
In XP, I could go Tools>Options>File Types and modify descriptions, icons and actions.
Does this still exist in Windows 7?
I'm not finding anything explicitly saying so, but there are lots of ...
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What file types can OpenOffice read or write
Could anyone give me a current list of file types OpenOffice supports.
Both what it can open and what it can export to?
As it is community wiki, feel free to edit this question to improve it as ...
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Application that would set default application for file types
Do you know of any application that could define the application for opening different file types?
For example, setting a default application that would open .reg files.
Or if there is not any then ...
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Filetype icon sets
Even though I'm into customizing windows to be quite pretty, this is more of a usability issue.
Can anyone recommend a filetype icon pack, so one could tell which files he is looking at at a glance ...
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A program to tell me what filetypes are in this directory
I need a program which will recursively scan a directory and tell me all of the distinct filetypes that are inside the folder
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Finding out what a file is
I have a compressed file but I don't know what it's compressed with. The extension doesn't give any clue. How can I find out what it is?
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Notepad++ Find in Files Filters
When using Notepad++ Find in Files feature is there a way to adjust the filter, so that it will search more than one filetype (e.g. *.c and *.h)?
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What utility or method can tell a file type accurately?
If we look at files in our browser's cache, usually there is no file extension (the gif, jpg, or swf).
Is there a reliable and trustworthy app that can tell whether a file is a gif, jpg, png, swf, ...
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How do I know which process carries out the task on the context menu
When I right-click on a PNG file, I get a context menu that includes Rotate Clockwise and Rotate Counter Clockwise. Both work great.
I am trying to figure out what actual EXE or DLL carries out the ...
