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find and rename base directory and files under each basedir, add a prefix
I would like to recursively rename all matching directories and files under a path with a prefix that depend from the current directory.
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├── G1_BIN_REFINEMENT
│ └── marker_genes
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How to tell which files are new or have been modified between calls of a script
I want to call a shell script regularly, and in it I need to process the files present in a directory tree that are new or that have been modified since the previous call of the script.
My 1st thought ...
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List only bottom level directories using find
So, let's say I use find to search a directory for folders.
find "/home/user/Documents" -type d -print
While this does list all the directories in said location, I only want to get the ...
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Cygwin find returns "missing argument to `-exec'"
I have backups script that removes backups older than x days.
On Linux machine this is working well:
find /backups/dummy-prod-db -name "*_D_dummy-prod-db*" -type f -mtime +7 -exec rm -v {} \;...
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In bash, how to find all copies of a given file in particular directories?
Let's say we have a file /a_long_path_1/foo.doc of size, say, 12345 bytes, and we would like to find all copies of this file in directories /a_long_path_2 and /a_long_path_3 including all their ...
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Bash find using regex fails with digit matching
I'm using find (GNU findutils) 4.7.0 with GNU bash, version 5.0.17.
touch hello.32.world.txt
find . # works, output is: ./hello.32.world.txt
find . -regextype posix-extended -regex '.*hello\.32\.world\...
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Move and rename files based on their parent folders
I'm trying to write a Bash function that will find files in a given directory tree and move them to the current folder while renaming them based on their parent folder, but I'm still stuck on the ...
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How to do a recursive filename `find` from the shell using a glob pattern with "set braces"
From the shell, I'd like to recursively search a directory for a given glob pattern. But I want to use set-braces-syntax in my pattern:
find ~/path/to/dir -name '*.{h,m}'
Here I'd like to recursively ...
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Can I use regex in find path?
env = bash, centos7
My goal is to delete jenkins workspace cache files under specific path, except for today's.
Successful command :
cd /jenkins/jenkins/workspace/CMSvc_Build/caches/modules-2/files-2....
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Calling exiftool on a huge number of recovered images from photorec
I am trying to recover images of the last 20 years from a friend.
She moved all recent files to trash, then emptied the trash.
Those images were lying on the system partition, so photorec found a huge ...
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List all sub-directories with a specific pattern in bash and execute a command
I have a directory like this:
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./foo/.bar/bar/file.jpg
./foo/.bar/xyw/dummy.fil
./foo3/.bar/file.jpg
./foo3/.bar/bar/file.jpg
./fo/bar/file.jpg
I'm trying to list all subdirectories that contain the ...
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search over all drives in git bash crashes - "failed to read file names from file system at or below '/': No such file or directory"
I am using the git-bash for windows (what is internal msys2).
I needed to search over all of my harddrives.
When I try to run find / -type d (and my search patterns), the search runs over the system ...
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regex in find doesn't accept the or operator in group
I'm trying to delete all files and directories in a parent directory, with the exclusion of some directories and their content. For this I use find in a bash script on MacOS. It works if I exclude ...
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How to delete any files that have not been used (access, change or modify) in X years
i run this command
find BAR -type f -mtime +1095 # older than 3 years
and find this file:
BAR/foo.pdf
So i run this:
stat BAR/foo.pdf
Access: 2020-01-03 01:32:05.584393000 -0500
Modification: 2017-...
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Find the most recent file of a type in terminal and then open it (mac os)
I found part of this question in 2 other posted questions, but I cant seem to get the last step working which is just "opening" the file:
How do I get files found by command-line 'find&#...
