Software :: Run A Command Or A Script Recursively?
Dec 4, 2008
I'm trying to figure this out on my own but I surrender! I have a command line program that converts HTML files to PDF but I need it to start in the main directory and traverse through each directory hitting every HTML file (basically do a batch HTML to PDF conversion) The basic command I need to run is:
htmldoc -f output.pdf --webpage *.html
How do I execute this command starting at top directory and going to each subdirectory? If it helps there is only ONE level of subdirectory:
>START
|__Dir1
|file1.html
[code]....
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Oct 25, 2010
I tried
Code:
chown -R owner:group *
which does not work on the invisible directories (why?). When I used ".*" as wildcard it changed all (visible) files including the parent directory (the one I was currently working in which is the "dot") . I can change the invisible directories owner and group using dophin but how is it done from the command line?
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Jun 20, 2011
At the linux command line, I'd like to compress all .pdf files in a directory, any of it's subdirectories and so on - but only .pdf files. I'm struggling to figure out the syntax
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Jul 22, 2011
suppose in my current directory, I have 50 sub-directories. Now, I am interested only in about 20 of those sub-directories (whose names match a pattern). I would like to recursively list the contents of these 20 sub-directories. How do I do that ? I would like to do this in Solaris 10 and Linux(RHEL 5.x).
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Feb 2, 2010
9.10 - get clamscan to run recursively?
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Oct 5, 2010
I have a very large and deep directory. I would like to make all of it read only. The problem is I guess I have to distinguish between files (which will get a=r) and directories (which will get a=rx).How can I do that?
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Apr 25, 2011
I moved to Mac OS X recently and bumped into the "feature" of Mac where copying files from an external drive resets the file modification/update date/timestamp to the current date (which Windows does not), causing a disaster for my 10+ years of backup work files where date is important. So, before I learned how to avoid that (e.g. using the -p "preserve" flag in the "cp" copy command) I have in the meantime added to my new Mac hard drive many more files as well as updating existing old files.
I have a backup external hard drive with all my old data and proper modification dates. I have a Mac hard drive with reset modification file dates (a single or two particular days). The Mac hard drive has all the "true" and "current" file contents with files modified and added. I need to Copy all the original files from the external harddrive, preserving file metadata (really only modified date), but ONLY overriding the new internal Mac hard drive IF
The file contents (md5 or whatever) is the same or The file was updated after the day (which of course I can see on all files) on which the original disasterous cope was performed (implying the file is new or modified) Ensure the copy leaves all the new and modified files completely intact on the Mac internal hard drive. "No prompting/stopping of the copy of any kind (i.e., not verbose) is required but is o.k". "Recursive copy - obviously I would like to copy all* files folders and subfolders found in export".
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Jan 12, 2011
it seems to me I can't get chmod to function recursively. I have a folder with a couple subdirectories in it and a few in each of those etc. Now, I want to give everyone read-write on all .c files. So, I typed in terminal:
Code: chmod -R 666 *.c However, none of the .c files in any of the subdirectories were touched, i.e. I could have accomplished exactly the same thing by typing
Code: chmod 666 *.c I did RTFM, and it seems that what I did initially should have been the ticket. What am I doing wrong?
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Jul 19, 2011
Since there is no directory recursive option for bunzip2, any ideas on how to do this as I have lots of .bz2 files scattered throughout from an unknown archive program.
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Jul 29, 2010
Say, I have a header file containing all required includes:
Code: /* global.h */
#include <stdio.h>
#include <unistd.h>
...
#include <dirent.h>
#include <signal.h>
... /* and so on */
I have several modules in a program (*.h *.c files) and in each *.h I include global.h, then they are included in corresponding *.c files. And I receive strange messages from compiler, like a "warning: implicit declaration of function fdopendir", "error: expected declaration specifiers or '...' before 'siginfo_t' ", "error: 'DT_DIR' undeclared..." though these types, functions and constants are all declared in system headers. What does it mean?... Compiler is GCC 4.4.4-2, system is Fedora 13 x86_64
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Apr 1, 2010
I work on two hosts, [1] with online ftp access, and [2] without ncftp installed, but with ssh access.
Now I need to recursively upload a folder from [2] to [1]. So I can't use hardfeed - which is for downloading
I think I can use a
find ./orig -exec curl ftp://pinshosting.net
But I'm not so so known with the params of find and curl to get it working recursively.
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Aug 5, 2011
I want to set all directories in /example/ to +x without setting any non-directory files to +x, using the -R option of chmod. There must be a way to do this yes?
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Feb 3, 2010
i have a web directory that has many folders and many sub folders containing files.
i need to download everything using wget or bash.
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Oct 12, 2010
I have a really deep directory tree on my Linux box. I would like to count all of the files in that path, including all of the subdirectories.
For instance, given this directory tree:
/home/blue
/home/red
/home/dir/green
/home/dir/yellow
/home/otherDir/
If I pass in /home, I would like for it to return 4 files. Or, bonus points if it returns 4 files, 2 directories. Basically, I want the equivalent of right-clicking a folder on Windows and selecting properties and seeing how many files/folders are contained in that folder.
How can I most easily do this? I have a solution involving a Python script I wrote, but why isn't this as easy as running ls | wc or similar?
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Oct 18, 2010
I have a Linux machine that shares some files through NFS. The shared directory is:
/foo
I then mounted a shared directory (from a Windows machine) to:
/foo/bar
/foo/bar is mounted successfully onto the Linux machine and everything is there. However any other machine that mounts /foo from the Linux machine everything is correctly there except /foo/bar is empty. Is there anyway to do a "recursive mount" of file shares. Here is the /etc/fstab entry for the Windows share mount of /foo/bar //windows_machine/share /foo/bar cifs username=user,password=pass 0 0 And the /etc/fstab entry on the client machines that mount /foo server:/foo /foo nfs rw 0 0
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May 23, 2011
I have a system where the permissions of many files are messed up. I have another system that has the same files, if I put that hard drive in, without simply overwriting the files, is there a way where I can recursively set the permissions of each file to that of this other directory?
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May 28, 2011
How can I get the last time any of the files in a directory or its subdirectories has changed?
e.g
Dir - changed 1/1/1
Sub Dir 1 - changed 2/1/1
Sub Dir 2 - changed 3/1/1
File 1 - changed 10/1/1
File 2 - change 5/1/1
The output for this for Dir should be 10/1/1 (File 1 was the last modified one). Getting the last file name to be modified is a bonus but isn't necessary.
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Jan 15, 2010
Is there a way to batch convert recursively using ps2png?
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Feb 2, 2010
I've got a directory of geographic data with ~2,000 archives. Each archive (e.g. foo.zip) has two files, the second of which I'd like to remove:
Now, I can remove the _num.tif file with the command:
How do I do this with ALL the files in the directory? If I try the -r (recursive) option, that fails with -d.
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Feb 8, 2010
I am hoping someone already has a script or knows of an app that will let me do this fairly easily - I have a fairly large folder structure that goes several levels deep, etc. In many cases there are duplicate file names that are not really different, e.g.,
/home/chris/folder/folder1/doc1.doc
/home/chris/folder/folder2/folder3/doc1.doc
I want to recursively go through /home/chris/folder and move everything to /home/chris/another_location/ without subfolders and renaming duplicates as appropriate, e.g.,
/home/chris/another_location/doc1.doc
/home/chris/another_location/doc1_1.doc
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Sep 2, 2010
I was wondering if anyone knows how to change the timestamps of folders recursively based on the latest timestamp found of the files in that folder.
So for example:
Code:
jon@UbuntuPanther:/media/media/MP3s/Foo Fighters/(1997-05-20) The Colour and The Shape$ ls -alF
total 55220
drwxr-xr-x 2 jon jon 4096 2010-08-30 12:34 ./
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Jan 8, 2011
I need to invert the colors of a lot of images that are in different folders in the same directory, is there a way to use image magic or something to do this in only a few commands?
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Feb 15, 2011
I want to rename some image file extensions from upper case to lower case but renaming all the images in all directories and subdirectories. the following code works if I am inside the folder but how do I make it work recursively?
Code:
for f in *.JPG; do mv $f `basename $f .JPG`.jpg; done;
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Apr 24, 2011
I would like to use the command line to compare two directories against each other. I have two folders called music collection that have evolved over the last year on two separate computers. 90% of the two folders are the same, but there are small differences. I would like a solution that will print out all the differences so I can analyze them and choose what I want to do with them, before merging the two folders. for example.I would like some kind of output that shows the differences and where its located.
comparing MusicCollection1 and MusicCollection2
dif1.mp3 located in MC1/folder1 (this one I might want to keep and merge over)
dif2.mp3 located in MC2/folder3 (while this one I might realize does not exist in both folders because I deleted it for a reason)
I've looked at sort, uniq, and even tried scripting my own solution, but haven't come up with an elegant solution thus far. Its important that it is recursive because there are about 15 folders in Music collection and more folders under those 15.
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Sep 11, 2009
I have thousands of files in hundreds of sub-directories that need renaming. The files I need to rename all look as below:
Note the .ogg.mp3.
been_all_around_this_world.ogg.mp3
I want to remove the .ogg from the files, so in this one case it would end up renamed looking like this:
been_all_around_this_world.mp3
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Jan 29, 2010
The rm command man pages discusses removing files or directories recursively. So what is meant by deleting a file or directory recursively? And what are some reasons for doing so?
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Feb 27, 2010
I am new in Linux and I need to extract alot of zipped files (different format (e.g tar.gz, tar.gz2)) which are in subdirs and I do not want to go to each subdir and extract each file because it will take alot of time. Is there away to extract all files that are existing in dirs and subdir with "for loop" or is there a script that can do the job automatically.
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Feb 11, 2011
I need to change folders to 775 and files to 664 recursively, but this bash does not has find command (?). How can I change them recursively?
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Feb 19, 2010
I wrote a script for copying mp3 files to my girlfriend's mp3-player and it looks like this:
Code:
mount /dev/sdc /test -o sync
for i in *.mp3; do
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Jan 22, 2011
What I would like to do is to print the contents of all text files in a particular directory, recursively. Problem being that there are directories and possibly binaries scattered around in the filesystem as well.
Trying cat * works as long as there are no directories in there, but when there are it gives an error instead and prints nothing.
I'm sure it's easy using file -f or something but I can't figure it!
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