Questions tagged [recursive]
The recursive tag has no usage guidance.
89
questions
1
vote
2
answers
30
views
How to copy files changed in last 20 days to a different location recusively
I found a code here (on this site) which allows copying of files changed in last 20 days. My issue is that I have a folder with many subfolders and some subfolders could be 8 or more levels deeps. I ...
1
vote
1
answer
312
views
Batch Script to delete certain files inside subfolders of a main subfolder
My problem is this
I have an extensive collection of pictures spanning several sub-folders (I'm talking of several hundred of folders, not a few), under a main folder, as example:
Birthdays
Mom
...
- 308
1
vote
1
answer
26
views
Recursive rename with negate filter not working
I want my script to recursively rename all .mov files to _Proxy.mov, BUT I also want it to SKIP any files already named _Proxy.mov. The below command is still renaming all .mov files, and is ignoring ...
- 11
0
votes
2
answers
439
views
Calling a Recursive Function in a Batch File
I am currently trying to write a batch file for a project that will mimic the structure of the following pseudocode:
void h ( int n )
if ( n ≥ 4 )
h ( n / 2 )
end if
print ...
1
vote
0
answers
71
views
How to display recursive geometric image in browser with infinite zooming? [closed]
Context
Suppose one has a pentagonal tiling where each plane is also made up of a pentagonal tiling (if that is not possible, assume cubic). Suppose each parent is x times larger than its child. Then ...
- 383
0
votes
0
answers
1k
views
recursively delete a specific directory for each user in C:\Users
Would like to use powershell to loop through all C:\Users\* and delete all contents of a subdirectory...
Some users, but not all, use an app that creates cache files at:
C:\Users\UserName\AppData\...
- 101
0
votes
3
answers
649
views
Recursively remove a character from folders in Windows
Given a folder structure:
---- folder1#name
--------- folder2#name
---- folder3#name
--------- folder4#name
------------ folder5#name
------------ folder6#name
------------ folder7#name
I want to ...
- 111
0
votes
0
answers
155
views
Add attribute to a file/folder
I tried that to add an attribute to a file/folder
Get-ChildItem '$PATH' -Recurse | foreach{$_.Attributes = $_.Attributes + 'Compressed'}
Problem is that it create a cycle like that : Not compressed &...
- 1
0
votes
2
answers
1k
views
7z - compress files in sub-directory, name them for parent folder
I'm trying to compress a folder structure like so:
Root
|_ Folder
|_Sub Folder 1
|_Files
|_Sub Folder 2
|_Files
|_ *more Sub Folders*
I need to create .zip file ...
0
votes
1
answer
735
views
Parallel processing and order of execution with recursive loop
If i run a script that processes a path recursively using parallel processing to execute a command on the whole tree if items, am I guaranteed that the commands I use will be executed on all items in ...
- 319
1
vote
2
answers
40
views
Windows 10: deleting a directory doesn't work... but works [closed]
I am developping a application. Sometimes, I want to completely delete the building directory.
When I do this I get an error from Windows, that either I don't have acess or some file(s) in the ...
- 111
0
votes
2
answers
201
views
Windows7 command prompt show number of objects as list from dir command
I'm using Windows7, and I want to know the number of files (or objects) for comparison to objects in Amazon S3 buckets. I'm not interested in size, as the size can differ between file types.
I want ...
- 1
1
vote
1
answer
654
views
How to share the Zoom window itself in Zoom?
I want to interactively demonstrate how to use the Zoom meeting room controls to a Zoom meeting.
However, Zoom doesn't seem to offer a way to share the actual Zoom window (the one you see when there ...
- 448
0
votes
1
answer
377
views
Exclamation Points - Is there a linux bash command to find and delete all directories named "!example" (and their contents)
I have searched and searched for an answer to this question, and I have used some of the answers I found in the past for finding and deleting large numbers of directories that are named by a certain ...
- 1
1
vote
2
answers
248
views
recursive grep does not list matches from some files
I am using GNU grep 3.4 to find scripts that contain a certain pattern. For this, I call grep recursively like so
grep -rin . -e "pattern"
The pattern is just a word, no regular expression....
- 163
0
votes
1
answer
485
views
Use Powershell to Download Webfiles Based on UTF8 Text File List
Aiming to
download website files via powershell;
get the name from each line of a text file;
with UTF8 support (supporting international text names);
& save the files to a directory with the ...
user900431
0
votes
1
answer
698
views
DNSoverTLS for upstream recursion requests in Bind9/Stunnel
There is a lot of information out there about DNSoverTLS and different combinations of setups, and I've slowly been going through different combinations to get the right setup for us, but it's led to ...
- 277
0
votes
1
answer
495
views
Recursive search for matches in two files
On the second day, I'm trying to find a solution.
There is a CCC directory; we include subdirectories with numbers 1 2 3 ... 500, in each subdirectory there is a file named A1, containing one word (...
- 1
0
votes
1
answer
59
views
The -r flag for directories seems to be useless now [closed]
cp, scp, rm and other command needs to the -r flag to perform an action on a directory, compared to just a file.
can't copy a directory because WHOOPS you forgot the -r flag
I don't feel this is ...
1
vote
1
answer
407
views
Does Debian's "apt-get install" command follow "recommends" links recursively?
Debian's apt-get install command is documented as following recommends links by default. It also follows depends links, presumably in a recursive fashion. However, I haven't been able to find out if ...
- 11
4
votes
2
answers
616
views
Recursively add suffix after extension to all files in a directory
I had a ransomware attack and all files were encrypted.
The encryption added a suffix to all the files after the extension for example 123.jpg became 123.jpg.[xyz@gmail].xyz
I got the key and ...
- 43
0
votes
0
answers
32
views
How to use cmd to move files out of redundant subfolder?
I have a large number of textfiles that are nested in subdirectories like this:
D:\datafiles_01\01_data\data\{bunchoftextfiles}
\...
\42_data\{...
- 1
1
vote
1
answer
929
views
How to recursively change modified date for folder and contents mac to current date
I'm currently using this script on a volume via folder action.
for f in "$@"
do
touch "$f"
done
It changes the modified date for files and folders added to the volume to the current date with no ...
- 11
0
votes
1
answer
157
views
Copy files from folders which contain less than a number of files
Coming from Bash: Find folders with less than x files
find . -type d -exec sh -c 'set -- "$0"/*.flac; ! [ -e "$1" ]' {} \; -print
How do I extend the line to now recurse through the resulting list ...
- 38
1
vote
1
answer
3k
views
recursively wget in specific folder
I'm trying to get files from HTTP using wget command.
I need every file in:
http://9.9.9.9/a/b/c/d/
which is not a directory.
I was trying it by:
-A log,html,tgz,zip,txt,css,js
In addition, ...
- 113
1
vote
3
answers
160
views
PowerShell: Rename/delete files in a folder that can appear at different places in the file hierarchy
Currently trying to figure out a way to rename PDF files in a certain folder (/root) that are directly or indirectly inside a purchases folder that is itself directly or indirectly inside the /...
- 11
6
votes
3
answers
7k
views
mogrify - how do you recurse through subfolders in Windows
I thought there was a simple switch in mogrify command options that tells it go through subfolders as well. I didn't find any. On Linux, the "find" command seems to do the trick, how do you do this on ...
- 835
1
vote
1
answer
1k
views
search and copy files from a directory structure by reading a text file
I have a folder with many subfolders and files in them. I have a text file with the names of the files that I want copied to a separate destination folder. The filenames in the text file do not have ...
- 835
2
votes
1
answer
8k
views
PowerShell command for ffmpeg to process items in a folder recursively
I'm trying to figure out what PowerShell command [or script if necessary] might allow ffmpeg to recursively traverse a directory, pull stills via the -vf flag, and put all the stills into a folder ...
- 89
3
votes
1
answer
5k
views
Recursively list dependencies of a package in arch linux
I'm trying to download driver of the AUR to install on a newly installed system (having no internet connection), however when I type
makepkg -s
It requires other packages to be installed. Being that ...
- 131
1
vote
1
answer
1k
views
What command can delete duplicates in a directory tree?
When I migrated a user from Google Drive to OneDrive using Multcloud, there were created duplicates of a lot of directories and files. Not all, but a big lot. We're talking thousands of directories, ...
- 11
1
vote
1
answer
394
views
diff won't work recursively
I'm trying to recursively diff two directories using the command line diff util. I have two folders, diff1 and diff2, with contents like this:
diff2 is empty. But when I do diff -r diff1 diff2 I only ...
- 121
1
vote
1
answer
281
views
Batch rename file names, retain ext?
(Win10) In a batch file, how do I recursively rename filesnames in a folder? Not the extension.
e.g.
Files to rename: heavy.doc, bright.jpg, fast.docx, quiet.png, etc
Rename to: A1.*, A2.*, A3.*, ...
- 13
-1
votes
1
answer
1k
views
How to remove folders with same name recursively?
I have folder, that contains a lot of subfolders. Each subfolder contains folder with name __pycache__.
How to remove folders with name __pycache__ in each subfolder from command line in Windows?
...
- 107
1
vote
0
answers
452
views
if one nameserver goes down, does that periodically reduce query performance?
If I have multiple NS records for a zone, and one of those authoritative name servers goes down for an extended period of time, does that occasionally slow down all queries because the recursive DNS ...
- 151
0
votes
1
answer
326
views
Recursively delete files of a certain extension - File name is too long (Win Server 2012)
A while back, I created .hash files for all files in a given folder structure for verification purposes. I no longer need them and they are minor annoyance/cause for alarm. I am trying to ...
- 1
5
votes
2
answers
11k
views
How to recursively copy and rename files in the same directory using Windows command line
I'd like to avoid using a batch file, if possible.
Based on this answer to a question about recursive renaming or moving, I've came up with the following command (for copying all files named web.foo....
- 615
3
votes
1
answer
2k
views
making sense of wget -r output
This is the output of tree command in one directory:
.
|-- asdf.txt
|-- asd.txt
|-- fabc
| |-- fbca
| `-- file1.txt
|-- fldr1
|-- fldr2
| `-- index.html
|-- fldr3
| |-- cap.txt
| `-- f01
`--...
- 1,795
0
votes
1
answer
457
views
The status of folders and metadata in VLC
When using Random in VLC, the probability of a folder being played is equal to that of a root file. In other words, the sampling is stratified by the top folder in the root. However, once a folder is ...
- 121
1
vote
2
answers
614
views
Why is entire website not downloaded?
I tried to make a copy of the site wiredhealthresources.net using the command:
wget -rpkl inf wiredhealthresources.net
But the command only downloaded 54 files! Most of the pages are missing, e.g. /...
- 2,365
0
votes
1
answer
419
views
How to retrieve a complete directory from a URL [duplicate]
Is there a method on Windows or Linux for downloading all files* within an online directory, specifically:
http://download.opensuse.org/tumbleweed/
so I have a local repository I can work on? Any ...
1
vote
1
answer
975
views
rm -rf / on a virtual machine?
So, this is probably a stupid question, but I'm genuinely interested. Would it be safe to recursively delete everything on a virtual machine from a command line, just for fun? I'd assume so, given ...
- 190
0
votes
2
answers
92
views
Copy linux directory into another one - delete contents
BIG EDIT:
I currently have a directory with folders and files inside:
-css
--addons
---myaddon
----addon
-----firsfile.xml
-----secondfile.xml
----cfg
-----anotherfile.cfg
-----lastcfg.cfg
---...
- 101
1
vote
1
answer
567
views
Wget having trouble just saving the files I want - exclude directories doesn't seem to work
I want to download all government spending over £500 by the Department of Energy and Climate change. These are .xls and .xlsx files, generated once per month. They are stored at locations like this:
...
- 21
4
votes
3
answers
7k
views
bash: find and zip all subfolders of a folder
how would one find all subfolders of a folder and zip them separately ?
folder structure
./folder
-subfolder_1
-subfolder_2
-subfolder_3
expected result:
./folder
-...
- 285
4
votes
1
answer
5k
views
git submodule foreach git pull origin master vs. git pull --recursive-submodules
I manage a repository with several submodules. For a while now I've been using
$ git submodule foreach git pull origin master
to pull in the latest changes for all of these guys. However, recently I ...
- 191
0
votes
2
answers
2k
views
Why does `rm -rf`` silently fail?
[EDIT]
Please don't waste your time reading my question below. It turns out my colleague is an idiot.. :)
On my server I'm trying to remove a folder and all its subfolders with the usual rm -rf ...
- 1,354
0
votes
0
answers
374
views
Batch file - List Files by extension
I am looking to get a total number of files by extension in a folder that contains many subfolders.
Example Output:
.doc: 6 files
.xls: 10 files
etc
I want to either output the results into a ...
- 11
2
votes
1
answer
10k
views
Recursively process zip archives to extract files while discarding specific format of files
UPDATE: I noticed that many people are viewing this thread, which makes me believe that this situation is not so rare after all. Anyway, I had asked a similar/related question on SO here, which has ...
- 131
0
votes
0
answers
589
views
How can I list all files recursively that have the compressed attribute set?
I started a decompress operation using compact /U /S /I /Q > compact-report.txt on a large dir (120GB+, ~950M+ files) and it has been going on for about 24 hours now. Most files seem decompressed, ...
- 1,411