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let's say I have a directory with the following files/directories: google apple mozilla foundation # a file with spaces browsers So I would like to move files into browsers directory. Here is a ...
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So I'm writing a simple script that checks if the size of the file is less than the given argument and if its true then its suppose to echo "YES" #!bin/bash Function () { cd $1 lista=`ls` ...
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I am trying to write a Bash script that takes the name of a file or directory as an argument and reports if the file is a directory, regular file or other. The script should also report if the user ...
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I'm trying to create a bash script to run the ffmpeg command on every file in a directory with filenames that contain spaces. This is the script that I started with to do an individual file which ...
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I am reading about the pitfalls of parsing ls and the examples given are about looping ls with for/while. The article title says 'parsing ls' - does that mean piping the output of ls to awk and other ...
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I have been told that it is unwise to parse the output of LS due to security precautions. The adage used was "parse sparsely and dont eat parsley" I was attempting to count the amount of files ...
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I have many identical files in two (local) devices, and it happens that I have renamed some, only in one device (A). I found the following way to rename the identical files in the other device (B), ...
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So we all know you shouldn't parse ls for many reasons, mostly due to filenames allowing almost every character. However why has nobody been able to overcome this in an implementation of ls? Many ...
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What commands do I need for Linux's ls to show the file size in MB?
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Is there a way to search PDF files using grep, without converting to text first in Ubuntu?
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I should echo only names of files or directories with this construction: ls -Al | while read string do ... done ls -Al output : drwxr-xr-x 12 s162103 studs 12 march 28 12:49 personal ...
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This question is inspired by Why is using a shell loop to process text considered bad practice ? I see these constructs for file in `find . -type f -name ...`; do smth with ${file}; done and for ...
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I can use ls -ld */ to list all the directory entries in the current directory. Is there a similarly easy way to just list all the regular files in the current directory? I know I can use find find . ...
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I want to see how many files are in subdirectories to find out where all the inode usage is on the system. Kind of like I would do this for space usage du -sh /* which will give me the space used in ...
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