Questions tagged [recursive]
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Windows program / tool needed for recursively searching through files referenced from within a file
Following scenario:
I browse for unsafeMethodCall() in all my web pages. This method is only unsafe in case that there is a reference of doSomeCrazyAjaxStuff()
My web pages are using strong ...
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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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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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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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diff won't work recursively
I'm trying to recursively diff two directories using the command line diff util. I have two folders, diff1 and diff2, with contents like this:
diff2 is empty. But when I do diff -r diff1 diff2 I only ...
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if one nameserver goes down, does that periodically reduce query performance?
If I have multiple NS records for a zone, and one of those authoritative name servers goes down for an extended period of time, does that occasionally slow down all queries because the recursive DNS ...
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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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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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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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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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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 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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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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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 delete files of a certain extension - File name is too long (Win Server 2012)
A while back, I created .hash files for all files in a given folder structure for verification purposes. I no longer need them and they are minor annoyance/cause for alarm. I am trying to ...
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