Questions tagged [recursive]
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How to copy with cp to include hidden files and hidden directories and their contents?
How can I make cp -r copy absolutely all of the files and directories in a directory
Requirements:
Include hidden files and hidden directories.
Be one single command with an flag to include the ...
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Ignore .svn when doing `diff -r`
diff has an option --recursive (-r) to do a comparison between two directories (the files inside them). Is there a way to make diff ignore certain sub-directories (eg: .svn)?
$ diff -r src1/ src2/
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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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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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Recursive ls with conditions
Why can't I use a command like this to find all the pdf files in a directory and subdirectories? How do I do it? (I'm using bash in ubuntu)
ls -R *.pdf
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How would I then go about deleting all ...
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Get bare file names recursively in command prompt
I ran into a little snag trying to get only the filenames (no extensions or file paths) recursively.This worked for me in the root folder:
dir /b
But when i added /s to scan recursively i also got ...
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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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Extract recursively using 7-Zip
I have several folders, and within each folder, there are ZIP files. I want to run a command line order to recursively go through every folder and extract in place every archived file that it finds, ...
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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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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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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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How to recursively copy and rename files in the same directory using Windows command line
I'd like to avoid using a batch file, if possible.
Based on this answer to a question about recursive renaming or moving, I've came up with the following command (for copying all files named web.foo....
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Mass Checksumming tool for Windows?
I'm looking for a command line tool for windows that will go over a directory tree (recursively) and output a list of all the files in there, and a checksum for each file (can be CRC, MD5, whatever).
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Recursive download of subfolder with wget - --no-parent apparently not working
I need some documentation about XUL but I do not have Internet access most of the time. So, I've tried to download the Mozilla Tutorial with the following command:
wget --no-parent -r -l 2 -p -k ...
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wget - only getting .listing file in every sub-dir
if I use the command
wget --no-remove-listing -P ...../debugdir/gnu/<dir>/ ftp:<ftp-site>/gnu/<dir>/
I will get the .listing file of that directory. But I have to step through ...
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