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How to find if a directory is having a symbolic link as well with any other names
lrwxrwxrwx. 1 oracle oinstall 10 Oct 14 03:47 abc -> xyz
drwxr-xr-x. 6 oracle oinstall 4 Oct 26 21:11 xyz
i want to find that xyz is having a symbolic link with name abc
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Find all directories that contain only hidden files and/or hidden directories
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I have been struggling to craft a Bash command that is able to recursively search a directory and then return the paths of every sub-directory (up to a certain max-depth) that contains ...
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Shell script to check file name with two extension and if file with both the extension are present call a script otherwise it should fail
I need to check a file with two extensions (.txt and .ctl) in a directory and if file is present with both the extensions call a script.
If not the job should fail.
I tried some methods but it is not ...
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Bash: remove spaces in directory name [duplicate]
!! This question is not about SHELL, it's about BASH, can't change the faulty tag !!
I've got a code that removes the spaces in directories and filenames (and inserts a dot);
find $jdir -depth -name &...
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How do I write a shell script to flatten directories?
I wrote a simple script to delete useless files from a directory using the find command.
Now I'm wondering if I can add lines to the script to flatten directories, but not completely flattened.
e.g.,...
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find: exclude n different directories and m different files present at any level but include few files from some excluded directories
I want to recursively find all directories and files inside a path but want to exclude some other directories and files that match given patterns. I then want to execute further commands on the search ...
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using sed to replace a string in files which are in different folders
I have a file which is placed in different folders(with file extension .mvw). I want to write a script which goes to each folder and replace a string(in the file *.mvw) "D3PLOT_1DForce" with the name ...
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finding folder name recursively and assigning it to a variable
I am in a folder path. There is a folder named dir. There is one more folder inside dir but I don't know the name. How to find it and assign it to a variable.
PS: I want to run this on multiple ...
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checking if a folder exists in certain directory
Hi I am currently working on a shell script project and I need to check if a folder, say "cat", exists in a certain directory. Right now I am using the find . -type d command, but what if the certain ...
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Delete all other undefined directories
I need to create a purge script to remove any foreign directories from a specific list of directories.
My idee was to do something like this :
#!/bin/ksh find /data/${USER}/SAS/ -type d ! -name '...
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Find a specific file in the nearest ancestor of the current working directory
I'd like to find a way to find a given file by looking upward in the directory structure, rather than recursively searching through child directories.
There's a node module that appears to do ...
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Folder research task
I have a folder with 3 subfolders containing 6 files each.There are 2 files in each subfolders with :NOPM in their file names.
I need to create a shell script that checks all the folders and their ...
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Exit bash when find gets to a folder with permission denied
I'm trying to write a Bash script. Where I go through folders recursively and make a list of and count files and folders.
In a way it works but if "find" gets to a directory where it has permission ...
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How to remove space in all sub directories in shell script?
I tried following shell script to remove all spaces with underscores:
find $1 -depth -name "* *" -print0 | \
while read -d $'\0' f; do mv -v "$f" "${f// /_}"; done
If I have a directory /home/user/g ...
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Find files in directory with paired names
I'm running tests of a variable-size-and-contents test set. Data files are added and removed frequently. I'm looking for an automated way of gathering a file list.
All files are in subdirectories of ...
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