General :: Delete Files With Complex Filenames With A Script?
May 24, 2010
I am trying to write a bash script to delete a file where I know the first part of the name, but it has spaces in it. The second part of the file name is a random set of characters. I was hoping to use a wildcard for this, but I keep getting a error massage saying file or directory does not exist. This is a simplified form of my script:
Code:
MYFILE=This is my file
rm "$MYFILE*"
The file may be something like "This is my file.123abc456.suffix"
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Dec 8, 2010
Fox example.I want to rename the files below like this: test1.pngătest2.png.....
-rw-rw-r--. 1 test test 20448 2010-12-08 20:11 2010-12-08-212440_1440x900_scrot.png
-rw-rw-r--. 1 test test 29799 2010-12-08 21:25 2010-12-08-212526_369x331_scrot.png
-rw-rw-r--. 1 test test 34167 2010-12-08 23:54 2010-12-08-235424_580x328_scrot.png
-rw-rw-r--. 1 test test 155202 2010-12-08 23:55 2010-12-08-235511_1440x900_scrot.png
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Oct 11, 2010
I am trying to dl the files located here: http://good.net/dl/bd/CCCamp-2007/video/m4v/ using wget.
Now when I use the command wget -r -A .m4v http://good.net/dl/bd/CCCamp-2007/video/m4v/
I get the just a bunch of filefolders, but no files, ex."cccamp07-de-1845-Freifunk_und_Recht.m4v" but its a folder.
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Sep 21, 2010
If I am logged in as root in a linux system and I run command rm -rf on / folder, should it remove all the files? also the kernel?
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Dec 1, 2009
I got a filename called like this:
beach---------20090808-110000.ogg
beach---------20090808-120000.ogg
It's like this:
name----------YYYYMMDD-hhmmss.ogg
Now Im splitting these hourly files into 1 minute files. I get then this output sofar properly:
beach---------20090808-110000_00.mp3
beach---------20090808-110000_01.mp3
beach---------20090808-110000_02.mp3
and so on....
the 00, 01, 02 and up are the minutes it has splitted it. Now I need a script, after it did this, to rename the file names into this:
beach---------20090808-110000.mp3
beach---------20090808-110100.mp3
beach---------20090808-110200.mp3
beach---------20090808-110300.mp3
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Jan 22, 2010
I'm writing a small script to automate the backup: Problem: within the folder structure there're files and folders with Cyrillic characters: Example (this is not for bucking up the mp3s; it's only an example):
[Code].....
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Apr 30, 2010
10.04 rar failed to unrar files with multibyte filenames Here is the error messages:
[Code]...
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Sep 25, 2010
I am trying to use an old box as backup server. I have tried a couple of possibilities along the lines of:
Quote:
rsync -a --delete --progress --log-file=/home/$USER/info.txt -e ssh /home /etc root@192.168.0.106:/mnt/back
The problem is it does not delete files that has been removed from my local system?
I run the command as root on the local system.
(I realize I should properly not ssh into the server as the server's root but I'm having trouble with the permissions and I want to make sure everything else works before messing around with it)
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Sep 23, 2010
I have a simple log file which is very messy and I need it to be neat. The file contains log headers but are all jumbled up together thereforeI need to sort the log files according to the log headers. There are no static number of lines that means that there is no fix number of lines for the each header of the text file. And I am using AWK to sort out the headers.The Log files goes something like this:
Code:
Car LogFile Header
<text>
[code]...
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Sep 24, 2010
I have a simple log file which is very messy and I need it to be neat. The file contains log headers but are all jumbled up together therefore I need to sort the log files according to the log headers. There are no static number of lines that means that there is no fix number of lines for the each header of the text file. And I am using AWK to sort out the headers.
The Log files goes something like this:
Code:
Car LogFile Header
<text>
<text>
[Code]....
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Sep 16, 2010
We're going to be doing a rather large server deployment, and using the provisioning system we have in place there is no current way to just "copy" a file over to the servers. All files/scripts have to be run from the provisioning server.Due to network constraints, the provisioning system can't run a script we need to run (requires certain network assets to complete, but as soon as we modify the network settingshe provisioning system loses access to the server and can't run the script). So,our network configuration script to create the other script on the server in /root when it runs.My original method was to do something along the lines of:
Code:
#network configuration statements here
....
[code]...
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Feb 3, 2010
I'm not sure how to explain my situation. I would like to download the file <https://www.vmware.com/tryvmware/p/activate.php?p=free-esxi&lp=1&ext=1&a=DOWNLOAD_FILE&baseurl=http://download2.vmware.com/software/vi/&filename=VMware-VMvisor-Installer-4.0.0.Update01-208167.x86_64.iso> via the command line. I've tried a few different methods with wget, the best I get is an index.php file. I'm not at all familiar with php but a search for "wget php" yielded nothing helpful.
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Jun 11, 2011
Moving right along, I have a folder of MP3 files containing various Movie sound tracks and scores. I'm using Audio Tag Tool to tag all the files at once with an "Artist" of "Soundtrack", and to inherit the "Title" tag from the file name. After that, I will rename all the files (Using Audio Tag Tool -- awesome program, btw) with the format "<Artist> - <Title>.mp3"
The problem, is many of my files already contain the string "Soundtrack", which would be redundant. I happen to be a perfectionist, so I'm unable to ignore it and move on. Hence my question to you fine folk: I want to delete all instances of "soundtrack" (-i case irrelevant) in the filenames before I go through the above steps. But, its not quite that simple. This is a sample of some of the file names:
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Nov 1, 2010
I just can't stand knowing that there's a slight problem with my PC.I have roughly 12.5 Gigs of files, mostly movies that are multiple clones of a particular movie (which was an entirely different problem altogether) and I CANNOT DELETE THESE THINGS! There has to be a simple way to do it from terminal, problem is, I can't seem to find the trash directory in terminal.
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Apr 8, 2011
I'm trying to keep a directory full of log files manageable. Nightly, I want to delete all but the 10 most recent. How can I do this in a single command?
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Apr 9, 2011
I have a script running as a cronjobIt outputs logs upon each run to /var/log/mylog.logIs there anyway I can delete this or compress it when it gets too large?A cheap and dirty way is to setup another cronjob to delete the log every X interval.... although I'm not sure if that's the proper way
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Mar 8, 2011
I would boot up windows and do it but window will no longer open my system crashed and was only able to recover linux. i open up system info and 31 gig of memory are used up on windows. i try to delete them but the option doest pop up and the delete key will not work. how can i remove all the windows files without deleting any of my linux stuff? if its possible.
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Apr 28, 2011
i wanna ask on how to delete a file or a certain file in linux by using php or in other word by using web browser. example i want to delete the file inside /var/www/cgi-bin/ with browser.
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Jun 17, 2010
I have a USB drive that I boot using SysLinux. I think select one of several options to complete a task. I do not have access to edit those Kernels. I need to add a option from the Syslinux menu where I can delete all the files from a specific directory.
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May 30, 2010
how to delete only files which have no extensions in the directories. but other files should exist.
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Feb 10, 2011
What should do? Or how to delete that I have 2 hidden in my PC?
I know nothing that's why please tell me detail if some one know about it?
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Feb 10, 2010
Assumed I have the following files:
test12.txt
test13.txt
test14.txt
test15.txt
I want to delete the first 3 files with one command. How to do that?
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Apr 14, 2010
i am trying to delete temp files using rm -rf but i am getting this error "bash: /usr/bin/rm: Arg list too long"
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Nov 11, 2010
Is this possible someone delete one file or folder in linux server its automatically stored one path like recyclebin.
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Feb 22, 2010
How can I remove all .swp files in all of my subdirectories under Linux?
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Jul 23, 2010
I created a directory somewhere with permissions rwxrwxr-x so that other users in my group can create files and directories in it.
I do need to be able to delete the contents in this "public" directory, but it seems that while I am able to remove any files in this directory I cannot remove and subdirectories under it.
Is there a way to remove such subdirectories owned by others under a directory owned by me?
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Sep 24, 2010
Possible Duplicate:How do I delete files greater than a certain date on linux How to delete all files in current directory and it`s sub directories older than one year ?
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Feb 9, 2010
I have a directory that contains some files (over a 1,000) that have a '' in the filename. There are also some good files that I need to keep. therefore I need a script to delete based on inode.
What I have thus far:
list="$(ls -il /opt/PC/log/*RPOUT*.xml)" #this gives me the list
# I need to get the inode of.
for i in $list
do
find . -inum $i -exec rm -i {} ;
echo "delete file" $i >> /home/me/tmp/del_inode.txt
done
echo 'completed'
I know this is not right ... what I know is is the 'find' is. I need to loop through the $list gleaning inodes to get all the files with '' delete. I'm not sure how. The $i gives me the whole line. I just want the first position. set $() does not seem to work ...
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Mar 16, 2010
I just installed Fedora11 with the KDE desktop and completed a yum update. Every time i try to copy and paste files and even delete files from a file manager or my desktop, I get this error:Quote:Could not start process Unable to create io-slave:klauncher said: Error loading 'kio_trash'.or thisQuote:Could not start process Unable to create io-slave:klauncher said: Error loading 'kio_file'.orQuote:Could not start process Unable to create io-slave:klauncher said: Error loading 'kio_desktop'.Current KDE version is 4.2.2
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Mar 23, 2011
I run 5GBFree.com a free hosting site. As you can imagine, it gets quite a few people signing up to abuse the service.Recently I've found a LOT of people setting up sites with a particular script that floods forums and IRC chat rooms. The names of the files are as follows:
peindom1.php
peindom2.php
peindom3.php
peindom4.php
Is there a command I can run to remove files with these filenames ANYWHERE on the server (so basically, a command to go through all folders on the server and remove instances of that name
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