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How do I delete all folders with a similar name that do not contain large files on linux commandline?
On my linux server for my media library I used a function to change show season names to have a leading zero when needed, so "Season 1" would be Season 01" and so on. The problem is ...
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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, ...
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making sense of wget -r output
This is the output of tree command in one directory:
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|-- asdf.txt
|-- asd.txt
|-- fabc
| |-- fbca
| `-- file1.txt
|-- fldr1
|-- fldr2
| `-- index.html
|-- fldr3
| |-- cap.txt
| `-- f01
`--...
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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
---...
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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 ...
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How to group "Only in" lines in diff at the beginning of the output
I did:
diff -r directory1/ directory2/
Some files are different, and some files were only in one tree or the other, creating several Only in ... lines.
How do I group these lines at the beginning ...
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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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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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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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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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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 to rename everything matching a certain string in a folder
I want/need to rename everything within a folder that matches a given string. By everything I mean:
folders/files
content within a file
content in hidden files
Basically, I want to refactor a Java-...
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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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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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