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Passing argument of a function to exec in find
I would like to define a function to find and replace text in multiple files. I find the command line
find . -type f -exec bash -c 'mv "$1" "${1/<string_to_find>/<...
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How might one except hidden '.' files and directories from a script that renames them?
I have a script that renames, getting rid off the whitespace, every directory and file. It does it recursively:
#!/bin/bash
find -name "* *" -print0 | sort -rz | \
while read -d $'\0' f; ...
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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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Rename recursively exluding the current directory
I use this command to rename files recursively:
find -iname \*.bak | rename 's/.bak/.old/'
But I want to exclude the current directory. Example:
.bak
dir1/.bak
dir2/.bak
...
After I want this:
.bak
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Renaming many files to their parent directory name [duplicate]
I want to recursively change many files named raw.tex to parent-directory-hw.tex. Is there a simple scripting solution to this problem?
For example, running the script on
.
`-- root
|-- baz
|...
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how to increase the file extension numerically by one
under the following current folder, we have the example of files
lok.log.1
df.log.6
weq.log.90
vr.log.11
vs.aw.frsd.log.3
we want to increase the files extension by 1
so the expected output will be ...
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Remove particular word from filename
I have many files in a single folder like
compose_icon_200x200.png
mail_icon_200x200.png
attach_icon_200x200.png
delete_icon_200x200.png
I want to remove the _200x200 from all filenames.
I have tried
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How to rename series episode files in folders to foldername using batch file [duplicate]
Looking for script or ? in terminal..
I have a directory named tv series with many series in it, example folder 24 hours - 24 episodes, in format
S01E01.mkv-- S01E24.mkv.
Would like to have it ...
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Rename a file in a folder based on presence of another file [closed]
The scenario I currently have is, I have multiple folders and each folder has traffic type (like ftp.csv, http.csv etc) and metrics (cpu.csv and memory.csv).
folder1>
cpu.csv
http.csv
folder2>
cpu....
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How to rename certain directories if the parent has a particular name?
I have to do some global renaming in an Eclipse plugin project, although the fact that the code is Java and it's an Eclipse plugin is irrelevant.
Basically, the steps I need to perform are the ...
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Rename files based on their parent directory using find/xargs command?
I have a directory structure like this:
Project/
|
+--Part1/
| |
| +--audio.mp3
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+--Part2/
| |
| +--audio.mp3
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+--Part3/
| |
| +--audio.mp3
...
I want to ...
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Using rename to remove '.orig' from file and add '_1' to basename
I'm using a script to make backups of files, and to avoid overwriting files I've used cp --backup. Which leaves me with a number of files that look like example.mov.orig and test.mov.orig. I cannot ...
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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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How to replace spaces in all file names with underscore in Linux using shell script?
I tried following shell script which should replace spaces from all xml filenames
for xml_file in $(find $1 -name "* .xml" -type f);
do
echo "removing spaces from XML file:" $xml_file
mv "$xml_file"...
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Copying wallpaper images into a single folder
In my ubuntu 12.04 set-up, there are lots of wallpaper images in the directory /usr/share/wallpapers. For example, one might be
usr/share/wallpapers/Leafs_Labyrinth/contents/images/1600x1200.jpg
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