General :: Sorting Files In A Directory?
Jan 6, 2010I have some files in a directory like
file1.txt
file10.txt
file2.txt
[code]...
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General :: Include Special Characters When Sorting Files By Name (Fedora 12 I386)?
Feb 15, 2010I am dragging my files over to a new Fedora 12 installation and I just noticed that special characters are not taken into account when sorting files by name (I want '_js' to come before 'images').Is there a way to make the sorting process behave like Windows, where files starting with a special character are listed first?
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Jun 3, 2010I have a bunch of text logfiles in the following format:
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Random data (? characters)
end of line
The files are already sorted by timestamp.I need to get 1 log file with all the logs from multiple logs files, sorted by timestamp. Note that the log files are really huge, around 3-4G each (and there are dozens of them) I tried the following command:
sort -s -m -t '|' -k1n,1n +17 -o data_sort.txt *.TXT
Here is how I ended up with this command:
-s : don't bother with tie results
-m : merge all logs files
-t '|' : there is no | in my logs, so the whole line should be field 1
[code]....
Actually... it fails miserably. The output file data_sort.txt is just the concatenation of all files, not sorted at all.
Ubuntu :: Automatically Sorting Files?
Mar 25, 2010I download files onto my networked file server which is running Ubuntu 9.10.By default, all files are moved into the Downloads folder, I'd like to use a script or program to automatically send them into one of 5 shared folders based on what the file is.For example: archived files would be software by default, .avi or mpeg Videos, and .flac or .ogg would be Music.
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Oct 13, 2010I want to run a cronjob every 15 minutes that checks a directory for files. If the directory contains more than ten files I want it to send an email to me.
All I have is this...
*/15 * * * * ls -l | wc -l | [filename] | mail -s "This is just a test" [email address]
I would rather not write a bash script. Is there an easier way to do this? I was looking into some commands like find and grep.
General :: Find Directory Older Than X And Mv Directory With Sub Files Command?
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/bar/a -> /foo/a
/bar/b -> /foo/b
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Ubuntu :: Copying Files To A Directory And Skip The Files That Already Exist In The Directory?
Jun 30, 2011How would i go about copying files to a directory, yet skip the files that already exist in the directory, and also remove the files that are in the directory. For example:
Code:
$ls /dir1
img001.jpg
img002.jpg
[code]....
Now i would like to copy from dir1 to dir2, but the contents of dir2 would be:
Code:
$ls /dir2
img003.jpg
General :: Sorting A File With A Variable Name?
Jun 27, 2011I am trying to sort a file, so I can compare it to another file later. I am storing the file name in a variable called curMo. I then call sort $curMo and it hangs for a very long time and I have to quit the process. why this is not working or how to make it work?
Here is part of my code:
#sort this file for this Location
sort -u $curMo -o $curMo.sorted
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Jun 22, 2011I love using htop, but I have noticed that whenever I sort by a parameter (for example, Shift+m for sorting by Memory usage), the htop stats stop dynamically refreshing. Is this intended? I also notice this with top as well.
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Jul 13, 2011I have a file like:
ER- V67
ER+ V68
ER- V69
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[Code]....
I am using the code:
sort -k1
but it prints it by sorting the second column.
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Apr 28, 2010The command: Code: ls -lRt Shows a recusrive listing, and sorts by modification time. But this in in tree fashion, where it first lists the contents of the current folder sorted by time, and then the contents of each child folder sorted by time. How would one accomplish this type of sort, but with an aggregate listing - all items recursively sorted together, rather than by individual folder?
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2)Let us say I have sentence "I am young" I want to arrange the words in this line in alphabetical order so that I get 'am I young'. First I thought replacing space by in sentence.Then !#j then type sort -n where # represents number of words.Then #J to join the filteredlines.It works but now I have file with hundreds of sentence of varying length.If I make a macro how will it know the number of words?
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(field separations all start at same place, so columns are not jagged like above.)
I have read the sort man pages, and have tried -n for the numbers, and -k for the position to start sorting, among other things. I also tried inputting a second position to start sorting, which sort should supposedly refer to if the two entries are identical at the first place being compared, but it seems to just ignore the second one. I just can't get it to sort the numbers properly...
For now I am manually opening the file in emacs and changing them around, needless to say, very time consuming.
General :: Can't Copy Files From Directory With "&" Symbol In Directory Name
Mar 18, 2010I am using my media server as my podcast collector. I am in the process of learning the ins and outs of NFS so i can mount a NFS directory and transfer my podcasts from server to player. For now i am using scp to transfer podcasts from server to desktop then to player. The problem is the path to the directory of one of the podcasts is /home/user/gpodder-downloads/The BILL&TIMMY Show Podcast.
whenever i try and run my scp command it fails because it thinks that TIMMY is a script i want to run in the background. I have tried to back-slash escape the character, i've tried single quoting and double quoting the character and i still get the same problem. as it sits now i have to move all podcasts to another directory and then transfer them to my desktop...but i would like to transfer the podcasts without un-necessary steps.
General :: Display String In Row / Column - Time Sorting Operation?
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General :: Copy Files From Directory Of One User To Directory Of Another User?
Apr 15, 2011Is it possible to copy files from directory of one user to directory of another user in linux?
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Nov 25, 2010I'm writing a Perl script which performs linux commands.I have a directory with a load of files.
Code:exec_cmd('rm $(ls * | grep -v file1)');
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General :: Copy Files From Directory ?
Dec 22, 2009I have four directories and i want to copy only the files in the directory to a single directory, how can i do it with the cp command.
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Jun 18, 2010So I am taking an half online/ half go to school class. I am working on an assignment that is due tonight by midnight. I am kind of confused on this question and am waiting on an email from my instructor but only have 2.5 hrs left til it's done. Here is the question.Use file globbing to copy all the files in the /labs/data directory that end with a .out to the lab07 directory. How many files are in the lab07 directory?when I ls -l into this directory. I don't see any files with that extension. Is there an easier way that I am missing such as. cp /labs/data *.out > lab07 ??? Someone help?
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