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Renaming file name with shell script
I have lots of file name like below;
KO.ADVT..HHE.D.2017.163.121959.SAC
KO.ADVT..HHN.D.2017.163.121957.SAC
KO.ADVT..HHZ.D.2017.163.121959.SAC
KO.ARMT..HHE.D.2017.163.121957.SAC
KO.ARMT..HHN.D.2017.163....
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Script acts differently in different directories
I have a simple script that I pulled out of a larger script dedicated to renaming files with odd characters in the name. I have run this successfully on the same machine within different directories, ...
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Renaming files by removing delimited substring
I have a lot of folders and subfolders with files with name 1. Introduction--- [ FreeCourseWeb.com ] ---.mp4 I want to rename all files recursively (folders and subfolders) to just 1. Introduction.mp4 ...
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Copying/Moving folders where destination folder already exists
I am writing a bash script to copy/move a folder called "folder" to a directory that already contains "folder" and I would like the contents to be merged.
I am attempting to use a solution from this ...
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Change only the extension of a file [duplicate]
I am working on a simple shell script to change a file one.PDF to one.pdf. I have this file stored in a folder called Task1.
My script is in the same directory as Task1. Called Shell1.sh When I run ...
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Sorting files by filename
I'm trying to sort my files by pattern into filename by creating Linux Script (Bash).
My files are mostly .JPG, some .AV and .MP4. I can't use meta tags, because this files have broken tags (restored ...
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can mmv rename files by incrementing an index?
Can mmv, a mass move utility, nicely rename files from:
foo.txt
bar.txt
baz.txt
to:
1.txt
2.txt
3.txt
The man page is intriguing, but I don't quite follow the directions:
Rename all *.jpeg ...
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How to keep exactly one file in a directory?
I have recovered files and currently they have this structure:
root/MD5_of_file1/file1
root/MD5_of_file2/file2
...
root/MD5_of_filen/filen
Obviously, duplicates are now in the same folder. The ...
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Script to move one filetype and create a subfolder, if it exists?
I'm trying to find a script that would basically look recusively at a directory, and if the script finds file that are .flac files, it will create a subfolder called FLAC in that same folder, and move ...
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Copy files that partially matches another files in another location
I have a list of jpeg files in a directory like this (below is just a sample, like the structure is the same but this there are many fo0# sub-folders, not only fo01 and fo01, where each of these ...
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Create sub-directories and organize files by date
I have some directories of files copied from my security camera that I would like to organize into sub-directories by file date. So for example;
-rwxrwxrwx 0 root root 4935241 Jul 19 2012 DSCN1406....
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