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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
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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
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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 ...
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How to recursively zip every file in each folder?
I am trying to write a batch script that when run into a folder, it takes all the files in this folder and zip them into one, then takes the remaining folders and looks into them and do the same, ...
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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.
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zip: Argument list too long (80.000 files in overall)
I need to compress 80.000 files into multiple zip files. This is the command I use:
zip -s 200M photos_test/*
However I get the following error:
-bash: /usr/bin/zip: Argument list too long
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