I have a lot of .avi,.mkv,.srt files with empty spaces that needs to be filled out with a dot "."
Example:
With space = "my movie file here.avi"
Replaced with dots = "my.movie.file.here.avi"
I am trying to rename a lot of files but need to keep the extension :
the files are films names :
a.b.c.d.***.iso
the result should be replacing "." by spaces " "
this command :
for files in *.iso ; do mv "$files" `echo "$files" | tr '.' ' '`; done
put a space also before the extension iso ??
How can I rename files from
"a.b.c.d.iso" to "a b c d.iso"
i have lots of files with dots insde file name for example:
document.1.is.bigger.doc
resume.version12.doc
10.photo.www.cnn.com.jpg
i want to rename all files in that directory to be the same (with same extention) but convert dots to underscore "_"
how can i do that on bash script / php.
I'm wanting to mod some PHP files across a hierarchy and thought I'd drive it with find + grep + xargs
I built up a command line which I was confident would do the job, but now can't save the results.
First I tried this:
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find . -name *.php | xargs grep serialize | cut -d: -f1| sort -u | xargs sed -i s/serialize/serialise/g
but that didn't work:
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sed: illegal option -- i
so I thought I'd try using
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I found this command that works great finding and replacing a simple string to another in files located in that folder and all sub-folders.
Code: find . -name '*.php' | xargs perl -pi -e 's/OldText/NewText/g'
The problem I have is that I need to replace a more complex string, like this: Old string: /mnt/stor6-wc2-dfw1/627896/982574/ New string: /mnt/stor8-wc2-dfw1/369587/302589/ There I don't know how to do it... since the / is what separates the old from the new strings, and the strings that I want to replace have / in it. Also, I would like to know how to specify under what folder replace the files, for example, I want that it search/replaces all files under /var/www/mysite/htdocs folder.
I want to change some HTML in my files (80+ so I prefer not to do this by hand). I got a script to replace a string in files, however the HTML I want to replace contains an enter (and tab of 4 spaces) (explanation below) Does someone know how I could update my HTML by using a function in Linux?
I also found sed but don't know how to use it with the enter (linenumbers will not work because they variate)...
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I used a command Code:
grep -r err_sys ./
its output is
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./tcpclitime.c:err_sys("socket error");
./tcpclitime.c:err_sys("connect error");
./tcpclitime.c:err_sys("write error");
./tcpclitime.c:err_sys("shutdown error");
./tcpclitime.c:err_sys("read error, n = %d", n);
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Is it possible some how to replace all the occurrences of word err_sys by printf.
This script works well but is there a better/shorter way of doing this?This creates dots to signify time passing. It will be used in a larger script.
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D=".."
printf "$D
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I want to count the number of files in each sub folder of a directory structure. At the moment I can do:
ls -1R /Folder | wc -l
Which lists the item count for all the folders as one. I can do:
ls -1R /Folder wc l
Which lists all the folders in the top level and all the items. Is there any way to get the list of folders and then item count for each folder?
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[1] 5052
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find /export/xxxshare -name "*.zip" -exec mv {} /export/store ;
Can someone please help me on how can i create a script that will monitor file creation on a single folder and sending the newly created file on a separate folder? Only the new created file must be transffered or copied to the other folder. The old ones remains.I urgently need this for production deployment.
View 8 Replies View RelatedWay to test permissions on all files/folders into a folder recursive, then if those are not user:user then do :
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chown user:user thatconcernedfile
The problem with that
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chown user:user -R /folder
is that it is doing changes on file permissions whihch are already ok. If you wanna maintain a specific permission on a folder this is really not good this :
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If i had a clean install of the same version of Ubuntu i'm currently running (10.04), could i copy my current home folder over to a new machine and replace that home folder with current one?
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In Linux bash shell, for a given directory, how can I list:The create date for that directory The number of files in that directory The number of subdirectories in that directory.
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i want make a bash panel and i want he will copy files from orginal folder to $user folder i mean when for explame i type i want install some server he say cp: cannot stat 'root/Desktop/2/files/beckup/sa-mp-steam': No such file or directory.
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View 2 Replies View RelatedI been using linux for a while, but I havent had the time to really learn it. Something Id like to get more familiar with is bash so here is a simple example of something I would like to do:
I have a directory full of files. For each file in the directory create a new subdirectory with each files name.
I tried this:
#im already in this directory
aaa=./*
for a in $aaa
do mkdir $a
done
One of the problems is that there are spaces () and - in the filenames so I get many subfolders with names like "-" which i don't want.
I tried stuff like:
aaa=./*
for a in $aaa
do mkdir "'"$a"'"
done
This of course also did not work.
Additional I tried just creating a folder with the name of one of the files and I got this:
mkdir: cannot create directory `(audio) - R56339.EXE': File exists
Well yeah a file exsists with that name, but I want to create a folder- why is there a conflict?
Just to be clear here are the contents of this folder:
~/Desktop/LAB/Media/Drivers - (Image Deployment)/Optiplex_GX260/XP> ls
(audio) - R56339.EXE (NIC-Onboard-Intel) - R54402.EXE
(Modem-datafax-V92) - R54403.EXE OEM_Applications
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If I have a line like AA=<value> in the file, and the <value> is not a constant. For example, it could be AA=BB or AA=CC. How can I replace the <value> with a specified string such as 'DD'? Thus, AA=BB can become AA=DD and AA=CC can also become DD. Don't want the whole line replaced, just the <value> part.
Can sed or awk work for this?
I want to change the parameter for ThreadLimit for one file as shown below using sed. I want to ignore the commented line. But the command I am using also executing with commented line.
# ThreadLimit: maximum setting of ThreadsPerChild
ThreadLimit 25
I want the desired output as
# ThreadLimit: maximum setting of ThreadsPerChild
#ThreadLimit 25
ThreadLimit 50
For this I am using command.
sed '/ThreadLimit/{;h;s/^/#/p;x;s/ .*/ 50/;}' test.txt.1 > test.txt
I am trying to replace a section of a file between the first instances of the strings {}, with the contents of another file. Example of the format of the file I'm trying to modify
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Servername=something.com
hosts {
macaddress1
macaddress2
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Then captured all the "macaddress#"s to a variable and used sed to swap
sed "s/$CURRENTDATA/$NEWDATA/" filename
However I get 1 of 2 errors,
Using a small number of macs in "$NEWDATA"
sed: command garbled: s/ macaddresshere
Or when using a large number of macs in the $NEWDATA variable get
bash: /usr/bin/sed: Arg list too long.
how to replace a large block of txt in one file with another large block from another?
I have a file, "outfile" what I wish to insert into a file called template where it finds "OVERRIDES". I am getting an error.
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However I can do something like this and it works fine
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I am guessing its because of the file size or multiple lines.
A sample of the outfile text is below
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