Questions tagged [recursive]
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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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find if files in one directory recursively exists in another directory recursively in linux bash and print exists or not exists
find if files in one directory recursively exists in another directory recursively in linux bash and print exists or not exists
lets say you have
pth1/dirA/file1 pth1/dirA/DirB/file2 and
pth2/dirA/...
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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 ...
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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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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 ...
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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 ...
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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 ...
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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\...
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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 ...
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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 &...
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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 ...
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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 ...
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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 ...
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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 ...
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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 ...
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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 ...
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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....
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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 ...
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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 ...
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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 (...
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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 ...
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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 ...
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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 ...
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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\{...
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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 ...
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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 ...
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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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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 /...
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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 ...
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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 ...
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