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Bash - Recursively move all files in folders with given name to their parent directory

I have a document library where all of my files are in folders based on category name but then they are also all in subfolders called 'pdf' as well. Is there a way in bash to scan through all of the ...
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How do I investigate commands being run when changing directories?

I see “awk”, “find”, “sed”, and “which” momentarily appear in my Terminal window's title when changing directories.  (And not all of these always appear and there could be some I'm missing; I imagine ...
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Can I make a custom “directory alias” like '~' in bash?

In bash I can go to my home directory with cd ~ and actually refer to my home directory with any command with ~. Can I make new, custom "directory aliases" (?) to refer to other directories? ...
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What permissions does a directory need so that anyone can cd into it but nobody but root can ls in it?

I have seen this before in some directories. Where if you know the name of a file you can open it and edit it, but you cannot ls in the directory so if you don't know the name of the file you can't ...
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Command to get to bottom of tree

Is there a Linux command that will return the file path of the bottom most dir. I've tried the following commands: find ...
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sha1sum for a directory of directories

sha1sum ./path/to/directory/* | sha1sum the above was posted as a way to compute a sha1sum of a directory which contains files. This command fails if the directory includes more directories. Is ...
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chmod: Set files to different permissions from directories

Is there away that I can run chmod to set the folders at 0755 and the files at 0644, or do I have to apply 0755 to all folders individually?
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using coreutils split file into pieces to different directories?

How can I use GNU's coreutils split command to split a large file into pieces of L number of lines each, but putting each of the different subfiles into different directories at the same time they are ...
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BASH: Need if statement to run a task only if number of files in the directory are greater than 1

I want to write a script, but I want an if statement so it will run only if the number of files in the directory are greater than 1. Is this possible?
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Search for exe file within a condition

I want to search for all .exe files greater than 200 kB or smaller than 120 kB in the current folder and its subfolders. Then I want to move them to another folder called "folder" and execute in this ...
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Watch folder and upload to an FTP server

I'm searching for some software that watches a folder and when you change a file it automatically uploads it. I don't like programs that mount a remote dir as a local folder, since they are really ...
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How to reorder folders? (as displayed in `ls -U`)

I've got a number of unordered folders on a memory stick, which my car stereo shows in order of their real position on the stick (i.e. same as ls -U) What's the easiest way of physically reordering ...
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How can I extract only some specific folders from a tar.gz archive?

Let's say I have the archive website.tar.gz, inside is the following folder structure : home -mike -www -coolwebsite file1 file2 file3 etc. When I ...
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When copying directories with sudo it copies just the first level of its hierarchy

This question was also asked here. When I copy some directory (dir) recursively with sudo in bash it copies just the first level of the dir hierarchy, but when used without sudo it copies the dir ...
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When copying folders with sudo it copies just the first level of folder's hierarchy

When I copy some directory (dir) recursively with sudo in bash it copies just the first level of the dir hierarchy, but when used without sudo it copies the dir with all its subdirs, though commands ...
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Changing the order of columns displayed with `ls`

Is it possible to change the order of displayed columns when running ls -l on *nix (or dir on Windows)? For example, I'd like to see the date modified, then the name, then other fields (or select ...
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Listing tar contents inside directory

this is the script I'm running tar tf some.tar somefolder_insidetar And output it's a list with all folders, files, and SUBDIRECTORY Files, the only thing I need it's just show the contents (folder ...
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Check folder sizes and report combined size for identical named folders in Linux

I have 2 folders that have subfolders (named after users), most subfolders exists in both folders, but not all. Now I want to create a list of space used by each user. I can use the following command ...
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Bash: Find folders with less than x files

How would I go about finding all the folders in a directory than contain less than x number of .flac files?
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Double root folder vs single root folder

On my Linux box, in bash, I have access to a "double root" folder denoted by two forward slashes: tomas:~ $ cd / tomas:/ $ ls bin/ cdrom@ ... tomas:/ $ cd // tomas:// $ ls bin/ cdrom@ ... The ...
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shell utility to check if directory is an ancestor to a file

How can I check that a given regular file of path f is a descendant of a directory of path d. If not for symlinks, I would just check if d (with a trailing slash) is prefix to f. Now with symlinks ...
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Why a folder must be executable?

Permission for files: chmod 664 myFile // rw-rw-r-- And for folders: chmod 774 myFolder // rwxrwxr-- If I only use the "read and write" permission, the folders won't show its contents, why ?
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deleting folders in linux bash

i'm trying to delete in gnu/linux all folders inside another folder that start with a "." (dot), for that i'm using the find utility, this is what i have: find . -iname ^\..* -exec rm -rf {} \; but ...
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Prevent rmdir -p from traversing above a certain directory

I hacked together this script to rsync some files over ssh. The --remove-source-files option of rsync seems to remove the files it transfers, which is what I want. However, I also want the directories ...
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Why does this bash command take up all space on device?

I'm a little new on searching via bash, so feel free to give me suggestions on the methods to use instead of this, which I'll never use again :) I'm searching for occurances of a string, recursively ...
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How do I create a shortcut that opens Cygwin bash shell on a directory of my choosing (UNC especially)?

Given a standard installation of Cygwin for Windows XP, I would like to create a standard Explorer shortcut that opens a bash shell already open on a directory of my choosing. The directory is a UNC ...
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how to navigate directories with heaps of files

My Linux file system has tens of thousands of files per directory. Viewing a list of all the files takes a few minutes for my system to calculate, which is too slow. But I am not sure what files are ...