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How do you remove nested empty directories using a Bash script on Linux?
I want to be able to run a script that will remove all my empty directories. The problem is some of them are nested, i.e. directories that only have empty directories in them, so the script needs to ...
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rm -r only files?
Is there an way to remove all the files from the current dir (recursively), keeping the directory structure?
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Using rsync to recursively copy a directory while excluding a sub-directory but including a file in a sub-directory of the excluded sub-directory
I have a file tree that looks as such:
in
├── file1
├── dir1
└── dir2
├── dir3
│ ├──── file2
│ └──── junk1
├── junk2
└── junk3
I want to create a sibling of in which looks ...
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ncftp - recursive deletion
I would like to recursively delete a folder and his subfolders.
I use ncftp.
This application provides rm and rmdir.
I already looked up the manpage, but it doesn't help.
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List all files and dirs without recursion with junctions
Is there a native|portable tool that can give me an unicode (or at least system local-compatible) list of all files and directories under a path recursively, without recursing into junction points or ...
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How to make tar only match patterns to extract on a certain directory?
The extracted tgz contains a structure approximately like:
Source
header.h
bozo.h
dir2
anotherheader.h
The following:
tar xzf libm.tar.gz --strip-components=2 Libm-2026/Source/*.h/
extracts ...
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Why doesn't this for loop work?
This is on Ubuntu 12.04 I'm trying to figure out how to get ffmpeg to do a batch conversion of FLACs to MP3, recursively. If I cd into a directory and use
for f in *.flac; do ffmpeg -i "$f" -c:a ...
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Copy permissions from owner
How can I copy the all file permissions of a folder from owner to users?
Imagine that I have:
-rw-r----- 1 124982 5000 201 2012-06-24 06:45 documentation.html
I want to change to:
-rw-r--r-- ...
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Does “chmod -R 700 directory_1” update directories pointed by softlinks?
Does "chmod -R 700 directory_1" update directories under softlinks? Forexample, there is a softlink under directory_1 folder: "my_softlink". And my_softlink points to a directory_2.
Will permissions ...
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Cannot delete folder - Content seems to be nested recursively
I cannot delete a folder located on my hard disk by any means.
I don't quite know how it was created, all I know is, that it is a pretty deep structure of folders (too deep to delete it at once, ...
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Windows program / tool needed for recursively searching through files referenced from within a file
Following scenario:
I browse for unsafeMethodCall() in all my web pages. This method is only unsafe in case that there is a reference of doSomeCrazyAjaxStuff()
My web pages are using strong ...
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How do I recursively list the contents of all files in a repository (extension-agnostic) into a single text file?
I know that using "ls -R ." in bash you can recursively list the filenames.
Can I use some similar command to list the contents of each file just the way their names are displayed using the ls ...
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How can I do a recursive chmod only on directories?
I want to change permissions on a tree on Centos 4 to add execute permissions for all directories recursively from a directory. If I use normal chmod, files other than directories are also modified:
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How to Unzip files recursively in Linux / DOS
I have a zipped folder which contains thousands of zipped folders contained in itself and that goes down the hierarchy, I have to unzip each and every file and place it in a single folder.
This task ...
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Copy every file with a certain extension (recursive)
I need a script (may it be bash, ksh, or whatever) which copies, for backup purposes, all the sub-directories and files of a directory: .znc - but .log files.
The structure is like this:
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wget - only getting .listing file in every sub-dir
if I use the command "wget --no-remove-listing -P ...../debugdir/gnu// ftp:/gnu//" I will get the .listing file of that directory. But I have to step through each subsequent sub-directories to get the ...
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How can I recursively extract zip files on Windows including deletion?
How can I recursively extract zip files on Windows? Each zip file should be unzipped in a new subdirectory, and the zip file should be deleted afterwards.
Each existing or created directory should be ...
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Windows CMD command to run a command inside every subdirectory?
I have a batch script I wrote called "joiner.bat." It needs to run inside each of 730 sub-directories of a folder. The joiner.bat file has already been copied into each of the sub-folders, it just ...
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How to recursively extract all .tar and .tgz file zipped in a .tgz file using 7zip command line version
I'm using 7zip cmd line version in my app (written in Python on Win 7 box) to extract .tgz files. Although I'm using the -r switch, the .tar and .tgz subdirectories are not extracted. Can someone tell ...
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Looking for software that will batch convert a folder tree containing CHM files in different folders to EPUB
I have a folder tree with varying folder levels and within each folder are a number of CHM files (Compiled HTML files). I would like a tool to batch convert all of these to EPUB (book) by just ...
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How to chown large group of files based on previous owner id?
I created a new account in OS X and disposed of my old one.
I have a bunch of files that now have owner 501 that need to have ownership changed to me
[/usr/local]$ ll
total 24
drwxrwxr-x 18 root ...
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How to find files that don't belong to a given user
How do I recursively search for all files or directories that do not belong to given user?
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Recursively add directory to $PATH variable
Is it possible to recursively add a directory to my $PATH variable? Let's say I have a directory structure like the following:
/usr/local/bin
- /nodejs-x.x
- /redis-x.x
- /mongodb-x-x
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Should programs follow symlinks?
A program that recursively traverses a directory tree, needs to figure out what to do about symlinks (and/or junction points on Windows), to avoid going into an infinite loop when a symlink points to ...
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How do you search for specific text in specific file types? [duplicate]
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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Get bare file names recursively in command prompt
I ran into a little snag trying to get only the filenames (no extensions or file paths) recursively.This worked for me in the root folder:
dir /b
But when i added /s to scan recursively i also got ...
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Recursive download of subfolder with wget - --no-parent apparently not working
I need some documentation about XUL but I do not have Internet access most of the time. So, I've tried to download the Mozilla Tutorial with the following command:
wget --no-parent -r -l 2 -p -k ...
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Specific ls output
Right now I'm calling the the following command ls -R and am receiving an output like this:
.:
file.txt script.php
./dir:
file.txt other.java
Is it possible to get the output to look like this:
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Recursively renaming .foo files based on name of accompanying .bar file in multiple folders in Windows 7?
I've just finished creating SHA1 hashes for each album in my MP3 collection using Corz Checksum. It left a .hash file in each folder, as desired. (Each folder is an album.)
However, the hash files ...
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wget recursively with -np option still ascends to parent directory
tl;dr: will `wget --no-parrent -r ' download from a directory above the given url's directory?
when using wget to download, say images, recursively from example.com/a/b with the -r and -np options, ...
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Batch convert .doc files to .txt (plain ascii text) and/or .html recursively in folders and subfolders, Windows and Mac?
Is there a tool to do this. I've seen some Python/Java tools to automate OpenOffice but has anyone reliably scripted this to do more than one file, and recurse through a folder/directory tree with ...
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7 zip extract recursively
I have several folders, and within each folder, there are zip files. I want to run a command line order to recursively go through every folder and extract in place every archived file that it finds, ...
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Recursive ls with conditions
Why can't I use a command like this to find all the pdf files in a directory and subdirectories? How do I do it? (I'm using bash in ubuntu)
ls -R *.pdf
EDIT
How would I then go about deleting all ...
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How to resize a bunch of images of different formats stored in different folders [duplicate]
Possible Duplicate:
Bulk convert photos to smaller size?
Hi Guys,
I need to resize a bunch of images that are stored in a detailed folder structure. I want the resizing to replace the ...
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Recursive search for files that hold some specific text
How do I recursively generate a text file which has a list of all files on my server which contain a specific string anywhere in the files?
I know the following command can be used to replace a ...
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recursively replace every instance of a word in a directory from linux command line
I have a directory with several subdirectories that all contain text files. In these text files, there is a certain word that occurs over and over again, and I want to replace every instance.
My ...
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How does one FTP a directory with multiple sub-directories?
I need to ftp a directory over to another system and I don't want to have to recreate all the folders on the other system by hand. How would I do this?
EDIT: I can't install anything so rsync etc are ...
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How to rename everything matching a certain string in a folder
I am running Linux and I have some basic console knowledge but my current problem is quite difficult and I dont know how to achieve this.
I want/need to rename everything within a folder that matches ...
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Mass Checksumming tool for Windows?
I'm looking for a command line tool for windows that will go over a directory tree (recursively) and output a list of all the files in there, and a checksum for each file (can be CRC, MD5, whatever).
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wget: Turn Off Forced .html Retreival
When performing a recursive download, I specify a pattern via the -R parameter for wget to reject, but if this file is a HTML file, wget downloads the file regardless of whether or not it matches the ...
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Ignore .svn when doing `diff -r`
diff has an option --recursive (-r) to do a comparison between two directories (the files inside them). Is there a way to make diff ignore certain sub-directories (eg: .svn)?
$ diff -r src1/ src2/
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Recursive filesystem notifications (inotify) for Ubuntu Karmic Koala
I need a program which generates events when a file is moved, removed or its extended attributes are changed. I'm running Ubuntu Karmic Koala 32-bit desktop.
inotify is the standard solution for such ...
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List files based on modification times
How can I run the ls command with all its options and list all files in directories recursively and sort it based on last modification times?
ie
ls -lth on all files in directories recursively
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How do I copy a list of folders recursively, ignoring errors?
I want to copy a bunch of folders recursively. However, I don't want one error preventing the copy from finishing. Is there any way to do a recursive copy(cp -R), ignoring (but logging) all errors ...
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How can I force only relative paths in “find” output?
I am attempting to create a script that can compress files with a certain extension in a number of directories into a single tar-ball. Currently what I have in the script file is:
find "$rootDir" ...
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How to copy with cp to include hidden files and hidden directories and their contents?
How can I make cp -r copy absolutely all of the files and directories in a directory
Requirements:
Include hidden files and hidden directories.
Be one single command with an flag to include the ...
