General :: Multiple Files That Needs To Be Altered?
May 24, 2010I have mulitple files that i need to be altered...is there a way to do so with out having to enter each and every file and do so?
View 3 RepliesI have mulitple files that i need to be altered...is there a way to do so with out having to enter each and every file and do so?
View 3 RepliesI am to rename all the files within a directory (which contains multiple subdirectories) recursively without invalid characters.
I tried the coding posted above.
find . -type f -printf '%p
' | while read file; do
oldfile=$(basename "$file")
newfile=$(echo "$oldfile" | sed 's/[^A-Za-z0-9_.]/_/g')
if [ ! "$newfile" == "$oldfile" ]; then
echo mv "$file" "${file%$oldfile}$newfile"
code....
but I get an error on both of them stating "find: bad option -printf find: [-H | -L] path-list predicate-list"
How can you create a script to move or copy files from a main directory into multiple directories below the main directory.
View 7 Replies View RelatedI have opened a file using vi i.e. abc.txt now I have given : new xyz.txt
two files now opened in the vi My problem is i can scroll through abc.txt only. how to scroll the xyz.txt also
I am fairly new to Linux and was needing some help on a comparing more than 2 files. I am try to come up with something that would compare at least 10+ different files to a master file and give me an output of what is missing.
Example would be: a.txt, b.txt, c.txt, d.txt compare each of them to the master.txt file, than output the missing text for each file into new file.
I came across comm and diff commands, am I looking in the right place or is there a much easier way of doing this?
I would like to retrieve the lists of multiple files at one go. Each file is big size so wget command is too slow to download all 14 files.
[URL]
I have a directory with hundreds of html files.
For all the files I have to:
- delete all the row from the beginning of the file to the sentence "<img src="immagini/_navDxBottom.gif" />".
- delete all the rows from the sentence "<br clear="right" />" to the end of the file.
How can I do that?
How to open multiple files with tab?
View 2 Replies View Relatedhave a large amount of 7z files in multiple folders which I need to extract.The directory structure is like this:
/main-folder/
multiple subfolders/
1 or more 7z files per subfolder
I would like to get the output of this action in one separate folder, all together in 1 folder.How can I do this?
I often use the rpl command to make changes to multiple html files at once. For example:
rpl -R '<br />' '<br /><br />' mydirectory However, I haven't been able to figure out how to change multiple lines. For example, let's say I want to change all occurrences of :
<br />
<br />
to:
<br />
I've tried
rpl -R '<br />
<br />' '<br />' mydirectory
but that didn't work. how to do this with rpl or some other way?
I would like to change the GDM theme on Fedora 10 if possible. I thought I saw somebody say this was not possible... is that true? Why?
View 9 Replies View RelatedHow do you join multiple MP3 files into one? "cat" and "mp3wrap" are no good as they produce non standard MP3 files. I know I can use audacity, but when you have 1000's of MP3 files to join into one, it takes too long.
View 2 Replies View RelatedI have 100 files: cvd1.txt cvd2.txt ... cvd100.txt
How to gzip 100 files into one .gz file so that after I gunzip it, I should have cvd1.txt, cvd2.txt ... cvd100.txt separately?
I am having a problem unzipping multiple files at 1 time.
Proper unzip command that will:
1) extract the file from the zip.
2) remove the zip file.
All my zip files start with SB and end with .emi.zip
SB*.emi.zip
how to run a command on all files with the same extension in a directory like this:
Code:
tex breqn.dtx; tex empheq.dtx; tex flexisym.dtx; tex mathstyle.dtx; tex mathtools.dtx; tex mhsetup.dtx; tex xfrac.dtx;
but in a simpler manner? I found this: Code: find . -type f -name *.dtx -exec tex {} ; but isn't there something simpler?
I would like to find all the files that contains the strings I'm searching.
For example (it's just an example), I would like to search all the files in "/etc" that contains "eth0" and "us", whatever where are located those 2 strings, the important is that the 2 strings are in the files listed.
It would be something like a "grep -lr 'eth0' *" and "grep -lr 'us' *" but in one time/command, so that I don't have to make a comparison of the 2 list of files resulting from the 2 "grep" commands given higher.
I have a file with 5 columns. Column 4 contains numbers.Is it possible to split the file into multiple files using a condition for the contents of column 4 i.e if column 4 contains a value between 0-10 then print the lines to a new file called less_than_10.txt
View 1 Replies View RelatedWhen we view multiple files using less, how to go on to the next file? I gave these two commands:
Code:
[root@localhost log]# ls -lt boot.log*
-rw------- 1 root root 0 Apr 11 04:02 boot.log
-rw------- 1 root root 0 Apr 4 04:02 boot.log.1
-rw------- 1 root root 0 Apr 1 19:14 boot.log.2
-rw------- 1 root root 0 Mar 21 04:02 boot.log.3
-rw------- 1 root root 0 Mar 14 04:02 boot.log.4
[root@localhost log]# less boot.log*
This is what I got:
Code:
boot.log (file 1 of 5) (END) - Next: boot.log.1 <RETURN>
(END) - Next: boot.log.1
I could not view boot.log.2.
Combine multiple text files into one text file?
View 5 Replies View RelatedI have 60+ directory's each containing multiple .doc files. I need to move them to a single directory and keep their file name intact. I don't think cp will do that with out listing all the file names. I was thinking of something like: cp -r /dir/*.doc /newdir . Or should I use a combo like find -type *.doc|cp /newdir?
View 5 Replies View RelatedI'd like to extract a single column from 5 different files and put them gether in an output file. I saw a similar question for 2 input files, and the line of code workd very well, the code is:awk 'NR==FNR{a[NR]=$2; next} {print a[FNR], $2}' file1 file2I added the file3, file4 and file5 at the end, but it doesn't work. Does anyone know what do I have to do?
View 5 Replies View RelatedI am using ubuntu 8.04 and have a separate home partition. While setting it up I had a few failures and was left with several directories containing many hidden files which I can't seem to delete. The man pages for 'rm' didn't seem to provide the answer either.
Is there a flag or escape sequence that will allow 'rm' to delete these files?
I have four hard drives in my machine with several different O/S installs.
I have a couple of Linux distros, win xp, and win 7.
I'm wanting to view all my files in a file manager such as Dolphin but it only shows the Pardus that I am running and the other Windows installs.
My other Linux installs do not appear.
I've recently switched from Windows where I am used to seeing all the different Windows installs on windows explorer.
Is this not possible to do in Linux?
I am wanting to move some files from one system to the other and this is frustrating not being able to see them.
I'm new to commandline, and I'd like to:
$mencoder -ffourcc DX50 -oac mp3lame -ovc lavc about 10 files...
How to write that?
I want to merge columns (selectively) from several files and create a new file with the merge output. I saw some suggestions to use pr/paste to join the columns and then awk to pick-up the columns.
Code:
pr -m -t -s file1 file2 | gawk '{print $4,$5,$6,$1}'
But I have hundreds of files and I cannot manually pick up columns using awk as given in
[code]....
Vim -o file1 file2 opens two files splitting the window horizontally. How to do that vertically?
View 7 Replies View RelatedFor the last week or so, I've been getting the following warning whenever I do an update. Is it expected, or should it be bugged?
Code:
Finished Transaction Test
Transaction Test Succeeded
Running Transaction
Warning: RPMDB has been altered since the last yum transaction.
Updating : pulseaudio-libs-0.9.21-1.fc12.x86_64 1/53
dd_wizard
Fedora 13 (2.6.33.6-147.2.4.fc13.i686)
Every time I use YUM from the CLI the following message shows up: Code: Warning: RPMDB altered outside of yum. ** Found 1 pre-existing rpmdb problem(s), 'yum check' output follows: wine-common-1.2.0-1.fc13.noarch has missing requires of wine-core = ('0', '1.2.0', '1.fc13') What is this? How to deal with it?
Long story short, I got a folder with nearly 800,000 php files. I would like to search each file for a string and if it exists in that file, the file gets copied to another directory. Is this possible from the terminal? So far I got: grep -i -n -r 'ppr-1792' * | cp $1 move_to_here
But this obviously doesn't work. $1 needs to be the file name that contains matching text.
I have a directory (Linux user) with a number of files which contain an added [!] to the end of each file name so that each file reads out as:
foo something [!].zip
bar something [!].zip
helloworld [!].zip
etc.
What is the quickest way to batch rename these to remove the ending [!] character combination from these file names?