Questions tagged [recursive]
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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:
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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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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 ...
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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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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 ...
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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 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, ...
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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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Tail and grep recursively?
Trying to tail though a list of domains to search for a hacker code. All the files that I'm looking for are the same so I was trying something like this:
grep -rnl * -e "Ai9LbaFz7lC13SwzDxAYT72vwA"
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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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PowerShell touch all files newer than
I have found the following question on ServerFault:
Windows recursive touch command
Which partially answers my question with this answer:
Windows recursive touch command
However, I would like to ...
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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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List all files and dirs without recursion with junctions
Is there a native|portable tool that can give me a unicode or a system local-compatible list of all files and directories under a path recursively, without recursing into junction points or links, in ...
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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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