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I wrote the following script to diff the outputs of two directores with all the same files in them as such: #!/bin/bash for file in `find . -name "*.csv"` do echo "file = $file"; diff $...

Ubuntu 16.04 #!/bin/bash site="hello" wDir="/home/websites/${site}/httpdocs/" for file in $(find "${wDir}" -name "*.css") do echo "$file"; done exit 0; shellcheck warns me even if I define the ...

I am trying to recursively convert all .mkv files in a folder structure with subfolders to .mp4. I got a standard line that works in just the present folder for video in *.mkv; do ffmpeg -i "$...

The following link recommends against using loops in shells. bash variables in for loop range Why is this? Here is an example loop I just happened to be looking at when I came across that answer: ...

Currently, I am trying to parse out all the files inside a directory. I have a find function, but it appears to not be able to parse in file directories with whitespaces into a loop. Here, "$DIR" is ...

I would like to copy many files with the below command. cp `find /Volumes/DATA/ -name "*.app" -depth 1 2> /dev/null` /Volumes/VMWare/img/ But that doesn't work because if it finds a space then it ...

If I want to find any files with .txt in the name, and for every match that is found copy it into the /junk folder, I understand I could use the following: find / -name ".txt" -exec cp {} /junk \; ...

I want to list the size of directories under a given root (using du -hs) . The issue is that where the directory names have spaces the du command is getting each word of the name as a whole directory ...

for X in $(find ~/Documents/ -type f);do date -r "${X}";done The above line works fine when the filenames in "/Documents/" contain no space. However, if the filenames contain a ...

I have a music library that I am trying to restore from backup. The original source library was on a QNAP NAS and I copied it over to a CentOS system without any problems. Now that I am trying to copy ...

I'm trying to run join a bunch of files using the find command. I have determined that filenames containing spaces are giving me a problem. The following comand works for files that do not contain ...

I have a file test.txt which contains file names like below where some file names will have spaces and some will not. Mon - Tue corrected item.csv Sat -Sun incorrect item.csv Wed_THU_corrected_item....

How can the script below be made to always work no matter the filenames returned by find ? #!/bin/sh cmds_should_always_work() { echo "\n\n*********************************" $1 stat --...

I have the below folder structure in Linux env: |-- Fixed_Zip | |-- ipython_notebooks | | |-- notebook editor for compute_0anXhGEj.ipynb | | |-- notebook editor for compute_aucScores.ipynb | ...

I'm trying to loop through each files from current directory and subdirectories. But the problem is file names with blank-space are getting treated as separate files. How do I prevent that. I want to ...

I have a folder with some directories and some files (some are hidden, beginning with dot). for d in *; do echo $d done will loop through all files and directories, but I want to loop only through ...

I'd like to find the files in the current directory that contain the text "chrome". $ find . -exec grep chrome find: missing argument to `-exec' What am I doing wrong?

I would like to list all files in the order of big to small in size and the files could be present anywhere in a certain folder.

I consistently see answers quoting this link stating definitively "Don't parse ls!" This bothers me for a couple of reasons: It seems the information in that link has been accepted wholesale with ...

… or an introductory guide to robust filename handling and other string passing in shell scripts. I wrote a shell script which works well most of the time. But it chokes on some inputs (e.g. on some ...

Is using a while loop to process text generally considered bad practice in POSIX shells? As Stéphane Chazelas pointed out, some of the reasons for not using shell loop are conceptual, reliability, ...

I've got 14 files all being parts of one text. I'd like to merge them into one. How to do that?

The xargs command always confuses me. Is there a general rule for it? Consider the two examples below: $ \ls | grep Cases | less prints the files that match 'Cases', but changing the command to ...

I am searching for files which name which contain AAA within their path using following command: find path_A -name "*AAA*" Given the output showed by the above command, I want to move those files ...

I am using find and getting a list of files I want to grep through. How do I pipe that list to grep?

I find myself constantly looking up the syntax of find . -name "FILENAME" -exec rm {} \; mainly because I don't see how exactly the -exec part works. What is the meaning of the braces, the backslash ...

I somehow managed to create a file that doesn't seem to have a filename. I found some information regarding how to get more details of the file in the following thread. However, I tried some of the ...

I am working through SSH on a WD My Book World Edition. Basically I would like to start at a particular directory level, and recursively remove all sub-directories matching .Apple*. How would I go ...

I have created the following script that move old days files as defined from source directory to destination directory. It is working perfectly. #!/bin/bash echo "Enter Your Source Directory" read ...

I have a bash script looping through the results of a find and performing an ffmpeg encoding of some FLV files. Whilst the script is running the ffmpeg output seems to be interupted and is outputting ...

I have a directory in which I would like to list all the content (files and sub directories) without showing the symbolic links. I am using GNU utilities on Linux. The ls version is 8.13. Example: ...

I have a directory with crash logs, and I'd like to use a conditional statement in a bash script based on a find command. The log files are stored in this format: /var/log/crashes/app-2012-08-28.log ...

I want to copy over .jpg and .png files with scp, but there files with different extensions in the same folder I'm copying from. I am doing the following: scp [email protected]:/folder/*.{jpg,...

I want to write a Bash script to convert every .pdf file in the current directory into a .png file. For example: $ls . a.pdf b.pdf $./pdf2png.sh Converting pdfs to pngs a.pdf -> a.png b.pdf -> ...

My current best bet is: for i in $(find . -name *.jpg); do echo $i; done Problem: does not handle spaces in filenames. Note: I would also love a graphical way of doing this, such as the "tree" ...

I tried finding some files (*.e*) that are in the same directory as another file (md.tpr). I needed to list them (for further processing) using the following: find . -name md.tpr -execdir ls *.e* \; ...

I want to copy and rename multiple c source files in a directory. I can copy like this: $ cp *.c $OTHERDIR But I want to give a prefix to all the file names: file.c --> old#file.c How can I do ...

Naive approach is find dir1 dir2 dir3 -type d -name .git | xargs -I {} dirname {} , but it's too slow for me, because I have a lot deep folder structures inside git repositories (at least I think that ...

I have a collection of files ( *.zip, *.txt, *.tar.gz, *.doc, ...etc ). These files reside within a path. I want to find all the files ( *.txt), then copy, only, the text files that contain specific ...

If I just use basename {} .txt, it will work: find . -iname "*.txt" -exec basename {} .txt \; It will just print xxx instead of ./xxx.txt. If I use $(basename {} .txt) in the -exec option, ...

I'm trying to figure out how to get total number of lines from all .txt files. I think the problem is on the line 6 -> let $((total = total + count )). Anybody knows what's to correct form of this? ...

What command do I have to use to delete all directories that begin with graphene-80 under the directory /tmp? What can I add to the rm command as option?

I want to find a subdirectory of the current directory, which (that is the subdirectory) contains 2 or more regular files. I am not interested in directories containing less than 2 files, neither in ...

Given these file names: $ ls -1 file file name otherfile bash itself does perfectly fine with embedded whitespace: $ for file in *; do echo "$file"; done file file name otherfile $ select file in *; ...

I was just trying to list all directories and files under current directory and also write if they are file or directory with the following command: find -exec echo `echo {} : ;if [ -f {} ]; then ...

I have a few million .jpg files and I want to generate a .jpg.webp version for each one (foo.jpg -> foo.jpg.webp). For this, I need to find all files ending in .jpg for which there’s no .jpg.webp ...

How do I name one random file in the deepest level of a directory tree using basic Bash commands and script? I was searching for a way to do it as an one-liner and without functions. Assuming also ...

I have hundreds of files in various different subdirectories. Some of them have the correct file extension, but some of them don't. I want to rename all files that don't have a file extension and ...

I have a folder with 137795 files in it. I need to delete all of them. When I run rm * I get -bash: /bin/rm: Argument list too long. How do I get past this error?

I have a file with a long list of filenames (with full paths). I've also got a program I'd like to run multiple times, using one and one filename from this list as argument. The program I'd like to ...