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Windows Explorer now limits my folder names to 16 characters
I usually have long folder names in Windows Explorer, but recently I "fat fingered" some combination of keys and now Windows Explorer limits all my new folder names to 16 characters. What must I do in ...
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Linux GUI Regular Expression File Renamer (with substitution)
I have folder with several hundred files named like this:
010203.txt
I want to rearrange the file names so that last two digits are moved to the front like this:
030102.txt
I want to avoid writing ...
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How can I rename a file whose name is in itself a full path (e.g. begins with “g:\”)? [duplicate]
Inadvertently, I have created a file named g:\filename.csv on Windows XP through a Python script.
Note that g:\filename.csv is the filename. Actually it is saved on the F: drive.
I can't rename it ...
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Removing a file named '…' in Windows 8
Completely by accident, I created a file named ... using Grunt.js for Node in Windows 8.
Is it possible to remove this file without having to reformat the partition?
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Can part of a file name be used as a hyperlink?
I have created a word document using Word 2010. The file name is broken into 2 parts, I have the start which is an alphanumeric code (that changes every time I make a change to the document by me), ...
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Get list of distinct file endings in a directory (UNIX shell)
I have a directory with many image files in different formats. I'd like to see a list of all distinct file endings in that directory, so that I can see what kind of image formats are present. So ...
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How can I scp when path and / or filename to copy has spaces?
I have in a remote remote_host a file like this:
\home\user\path with spaces\filename with spaces.ext
And I want to scp it to current dir .. How can I do that?
Thanks!
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Mac/Linux equivalent to resource monitor's disk activity with filenames?
In Windows, the resource monitor allows you to see the filenames associated with the disk activity, but tools like iotop and activity only show overall disk activity from processes instead of the ...
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Can't handle convmv
Description: Ubuntu 11.10
Release: 11.10
Codename: oneiric
I have a lot of folders and files with ??? ???? ??.txt - like file names when I do
$ sudo mount -t vfat /dev/sdb1 ...
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Batch remove track number from music files at a time
I have around 600 mp3 song files in a folder. All the tracks have a number before their names. I want to remove the track-number from all the files. Ya I know I can rename those files and delete the ...
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Transfering long files with SSH to RHEL
I am using SSH Secure Shell GUI to transfer some folders from Windows to a RHEL server, but one of the file inside the folders has a name which is too long and I can't shorten the name as it is some ...
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Rename filenames inside a RAR before extraction?
I have several files inside a RAR that have the same filename.
So Im thinking I should either:
Rename them inside the RAR before I extract them
OR
Extract each file into a separate folder (so they ...
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What is wrong with these filenames?
I can't seem to get my filenames in a format that is recognizable. I originally had them in ANSI format and tried to convert them to UTF-8, but they are still not recognizable.
The filenames are in ...
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Does Exact Audio Copy support any scripting in filename construction?
In some media players including (MPC, foobar2000) it is possible to format the output of a playlist by using if control structures to select certain meta tags based on their presence, or others if ...
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Enforce unicode filenames on linux
is there any easy way to enfoce unicode filenames on linux?
What I want is to specify that for a directory. Every file creation within said directory will be checked by the kernel and if the filename ...
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Filename issues
Server is ubuntu 10.04 with apache installed. I have a file named picture.png and a file named picture.jpg. If I enter in the address bar www.mysite.com/picture, the png show up, but if I enter ...
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“sync” content via filename
Okay, well I've uploaded 5 gigs of images to Dropbox, and those are directly off the camera.
In another country, my friend with rubbish internet (whom retrieved a CD containing the images) copied ...
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Can not stat over a file name having space in it
I m very new to shell scripting and writing a script for a project. I am having a problem while doing "stat" on a file name, to check size, which has spaces in it.
The problem is that I can not write ...
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Convention on directory of file outside /var/www
By /var/www I am generically referring to the document root for Apache. Often times you want to work with files, but don't want them inside the doc root (PHP examples come to mind). The general ...
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Unrar creating files with backslashes in names instead of proper directory hierarchy
I'm working on moving the content of a website, which was provided to me in a RAR archive, to a new server.
I'm not exactly sure which flavor of Linux it is; uname -a tells me:
Linux bolt.sonic.net ...
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ImageMagick Append Image sequence Filenames
I am using the animation tool Synfig to export a sequence of .png files. These are in the following format:
C1.0000.png , C1.0001.png, C1.0002.png and so on.
I want to convert these to a spritesheet ...
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How to change case of file in power shell
When I to run ren controller Controller in PowerShell I get this error message:
ren : Source and destination path must be different.
At line:1 char:1
+ ren .\controller Controller
+ ...
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Looking for software to rename file name of jpeg scan image of doc to text in the image
I'm scanning in many A4 paper documents to JPEG using a automated document feeder scanner.
The results are FILE0001.JPG FILE0002.JPG etc.
I would like a program to rename the file name title to text ...
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how to backup only files paths, names, sizes and checksums?
I'm looking for an application which will allow me to select some folders, and then regularly backup only complete paths, names, sizes and checksums of the files within those folders and their ...
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Is it possible to create an archive containing files with identical name? [closed]
Is it possible to create an archive in whatever format containing files with identical name located in the same folder? If yes, how?
I need this for some testing purposes. The target OS is Windows. ...
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Fix encoding of German umlauts in directories and filenames (ü = u╠ê and so on)
I have many zip-files where there are encoding errors for the German umlauts (äüöÄÜÖß). They show up in both the filename.zip as well as in the included directories and files like this:
Fünf = ...
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File name too long to copy but doesn't say which one
I was copying a bunch of files but wasn't able to copy some because there name was too long. Is there an easy way to shorten the names or can I at least know the path to where the file name becomes ...
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Go to directory with unknown name
While unpacking a tarball, I encountered a directory which ls reports as "??????????????? ?????". Presumably, the name is not in unicode?
Anyway, I can't figure a way to access the folder.
I've tried ...
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ssh Mac Unix: copy a file with special characters and spaces
I am remote logged into a Mac and trying to copy a music file from one directory to another, but I am getting an error. I think it's caused by spaces or special characters, but not sure.
the file ...
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Fastest way to search a directory for file names with specific charachters?
I have a directory which contains sub folders which contain files with very diverse names from many different users so they are not named very consistently. I am moving this directory to a sharepoint ...
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How can I specify an /EXCLUDE file with spaces in it to xcopy?
I have tried to specify an /EXCLUDE filename with spaces in it to xcopy, but it always chokes. How can I specify such a path to xcopy without copying the /EXCLUDE files into the current directory and ...
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Why does Windows Explorer show up in task manager as “explorer.EXE”?
I’ve been noticing that Windows Explorer’s file name in the Task Manager, ends with .EXE instead of .exe.
I decided to kill the process and restart Explorer. Now it shows up as explorer.exe, however ...
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Is there an OS that allows the same name for files in the same folder?
Is there an OS that allows the same name for files in the same folder?
By "same name", I mean absolutely identical, including the extension.
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“Filename is not valid or too long” and “The specified path does not exist” in one file
I have a file in a folder that I use for python programming and when I moved the folder everything would go but the file.
I don't know how it got there but when I try to delete it I get "Filename is ...
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Can I rename a file that contains a forward slash in Unix?
I am trying to rename a file with a name that contains the "/" character.
Example:
mv product.dat product/2012.dat
Is this possible in Unix?
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TortoiseHG; how to search for only a certain file extension for commit?
I have an ongoing problem using the TortoiseHG Workbench commit window to search for only a certain file type, such as with Python modules. Often I have tons of .pyc files that I don't want to be ...
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How are filenames stored?
I noticed that renaming a file doesn't change its hash. I also noticed that creating an empty file gives a file of zero bytes, yet it has a filename.
Since the filename seems to travel with the file ...
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DOSBox 8.3 filenames disagree with Windows 7
When I compare a dir in DOSBox 0.74 against a dir from Windows 7 command prompt, the 8.3 filenames differ.
Long format (both drives and directories):
2012-07-30_abcdefg-abcde
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How to start/open a file/folder that contains space in its name through command-line?
I'm trying to use the start command in the command prompt to open files and folders, but I'm unable to open files and folders that contain space(s) in their name.
I have tried the following queries ...
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Something strange with the file name on the server
I have uploaded some image named 123.jpg, and it really appears on mysite.com/123.jpg. But after some time when I go to mysite.com/123.jpg I don't see the image, and instead it the browser tells that ...
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Cascade file name changes on links in Windows 7
When making a link in Windows 7, is there a way to have name changes cascade to all links of the file?
So if I have a file called: Interest.PDF and make a few links in other folders, but then I later ...
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creating “.project” file in windows 7
I just downloaded an eclipse .project file from outlook but was not able to find it. I figured that this might be an issue because the file does not have a name and has only an extension. thus I ...
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Replace duplicate words in filenames
I have files with filenames such as this:
かな_かな
I'd like to replace that with just:
かな
Is there any way to do this in batch, automatically?
Note that some files have different words before and ...
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Is it possible to rename files in a zip archive before extracting?
I pulled a zip file from the web which was packed on a system where filenames were encoded in a format my unzip program fails to read. Perhaps the file-system does not support those weird characters, ...
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wget filename and directory name clashes
We are using WGET 1.12 for windows on a site (with follow_tags = a, reclevel = 8, recursive = on and timestamping = on wgetrc settings) and are seeing two issues:
a. The file is deleted and a ...
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How to find out the name and path of a running gui application on linux?
I am itnerested to learn more about my system. Started for example a gui application "Printing". A shiny nice name in the title.
There is no file "printing" in /usr/bin.
Is there some trick to show ...
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How to bulk translate file names and rename them [duplicate]
Possible Duplicate:
Software to rename files with Japanese or Korean character/letter filenames to their Romanized (Roman/Latin letters) equivalents
I have some files with Chinese names. I ...
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Automate the renaming of file in OSX
Example: We have a folder filled with 30 images with inconsistent names. These images need to be named consistently and numerically: image1.jpg image2.jpg image3.jpg ... image30.jpg
Can this be ...
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How to fix diacritic issue on command prompt?
Simplified issue:
I have a file called Bíblia sagrada.exe (note the í) on C:\ of my computer.
When I open a command prompt on C:\ and execute dir /b /on B*.*, it will return:
Bíblia sagrada.exe
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Why do I have identical files in one directory, in Windows 7?
I just rebuilt my system after a new Power supply fired my CPU, MBD, Video card & a Blu-Ray drive.
During all this I had to restore Windows from a backup (sector copy).
All seems well, but ...
