I have around 150+ folders in one directory. All contains some pdf files. Now i want to give some prefix no. to folder only not the files inside. How can i give the prefix to all my folders?
Eg : OLD FOLDER NEW FOLDER
ABC/ 8562-ABC/
AABC/ 8562-AABC/
I have around 150+ folders in one directory. All contains some pdf files. Now i want to give some prefix no. to folder only not the files inside. How can i give the prefix to all my folders?Eg : Suppose i want no. 8562 then i want it like as follows
OLD FOLDER NEW FOLDER
ABC/ 8562-ABC/
AABC/ 8562-AABC/
I have a shared NTFS partition ("shared") that I use for data for both Windows and Ubuntu. How can I mount the music folder on shared to $Home/Music, and the Videos folder on shared to $Home/Videos? I want to mount the different folders on the partition to different folders in home.
View 2 Replies View RelatedI am setting up a lubuntu nas with all of my music, movies, etc on it. I want to give my kids access to my mp3 directory, so I can move all of the kid appropiate music into the root of my mp3 dir, in the same order I have all of my music sorted. Under the Music folder, I have them sorted, in folders, by letter. So A, B, C, D, etc... Now, in those folders are the respective artists. So where there may be something approipate in the P folder (say, Paramore), there is something inapproipate (say, Pantera)Now, when the kids go to the P folder, I don't want them to even see the Pantera folder. I just want them to see the Paramore folder. I tried a test using chmod 711 and chmod 700 on a directory with a test user, and the user can't access the directory, but can still see it
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View 1 Replies View RelatedI'm trying to batch rename 3,300 photos, and can't figure it out.
I've tried digiKam and KRename, however I can't figure out how to simply rename the files as such:
~/Pictures/[year]/[month]/[datetime].JPG
where the year, month, and datetime are when the picture was taken, via EXIF data. In digiKam, I can't figure out how to rename the files to move to a different dirrectory than their current one, and with KRename, I can't figure out how to only use the year for the directory instead of the entire datetime.
I'm trying to change the name of a partition that grub mislabels. I've tried editing /etc/grub.d/30_os-prober, but I keep getting syntax errors.
The lines I changed are:
Code:
case ${LONGNAME} in
Windows Vista*|Windows 7*)
;;
replacing them with:
[Code]....
where line 163 is the one marked above in red.
I'm trying to rename ~11000 files. What has happened is I have files in the following format:
string1_100_string2_200_string3_300.log
now the numbers 200 and 300 are sometimes below 100 and the file looks like this:
string1_100_string2_99_string3_99.log
and I want to rename such files to be like this:
string1_100_string2_099_string3_099.log
I wrote a small matlab script but it seems to take forever so thought I'd try and do it bash and have got near to nowhere....
I am trying to follow the instructions in the smb.conf file which says, "name original file smb.conf.master and create the "real" config file with test parm -s smb.conf.master >smb.conf".
First I made myself the owner of the smb.conf file. Then I tried to rename the smb.conf file to smb.conf.master. When I try to do this with: rename smb.conf smb.conf.master the result is: Bareword "smb" not allowed while "strict subs" in use at (eval 1) line 1.Bareword "conf" not allowed while "strict subs" in use at (eval 1) line 1.
Can someone tell me what this means, (why it is happening) and what do I need to do in order to rename the smb.conf file to smb.conf.master.
All I want to do is rename the folder containing my VMs but when I do that it breaks the VMs. In the settings of the individual VMs under Storage, there is a location for the .vdi file which I think may be the culprit but I see no way to change it. So is there a way to easily just rename the folder without importing/exporting the entire VM?
View 5 Replies View RelatedAlright, after trying to organize shortcuts in Wine's menu (which did not work), I ended up hitting the 'Revert' button, which changed the names of most of the folders:
Screenshot
As you've probably guessed, I want to remove "wine-Programs-" from the beginning of the folder names. I've tried using the menu editor to do this, but the 'Properties' button does not seem to work on anything I did not create myself. How do I go about editing the names?
I would also like to know how to move the MS Office shortcuts into a custom folder/menu. They refuse to drag into any folder I make.
A potentially very dumb question but still ... I want to create a place that I can choose in the panel at the top left. So I
- go to Nautilus (tree view in sidepane) down in the folders until I see my destination on the left;
- switch to places in the sidepane and drag and drop the folder onto the places thing.
Then, the folder shows up with the name there, which is something like "Web_ABC". So I want to change it to "Web" only. On my 64bit machine, this works, on my 32bit machine, it doesn't. Whenever I change the name and press ENTER, it goes back to the old name. On the 64bit system, it only worked when I went to some other place once, and then fine, but on the 32bit one, no chance.
I have a large collection of pictures, that are arranged in lots of directories such as pictures/june/001.jpg, pictures/july/005.jpg.I was wondering if it would be possible to move these pictures around so that they are also renamed to their parent folders name, such as moving picture/june/001.jpg to picture/june_001.jpg
Is there an easy way to do this or will i just have to write a shell script?
Whenever I download a file using Firefox or Google Chrome and it has a ' character on it's filename, the file is renamed and a is added before the '. It's really annoying and I'd like to know how can I solve this issue.
View 9 Replies View RelatedThis has happened twice to me. I'm editing a filename on the desktop, for example, I have a part of the name highlighted and press delete. Inadvertently, I press delete again, but with nothing highlighted. The file is deleted, but is not added to the recycle bin (possible bug).
I believe that is what is happening. I cannot seem to recreate it purposefully on my work computer --I had done this at home this morning while sans-coffee.
Is there a way to recover the files?
I've used Shotwell to give titles to a lot of photos, and now realise that I want to also rename those files using the title. I see that Shotwell saves the title into XMP IPTC structure, using this: dc:title[x]. how to batch rename a bunch of files using this data?
View 3 Replies View Relatedalthough I am not an Ubuntu user, hopefuly I'll find someoe to give me a hand. I am experiencing problem with mlabel command. My system is Mandriva 2010.2, XFCE, Mtools version 4.0.13. I would be grateful for any help.
View 1 Replies View RelatedI've got three server folder things but I'm wondering whether I could rename them to something a bit more neater.When I do try renaming one it comes up with this error.
View 4 Replies View Relatedits very easy to rename a flash disk or even a memory card or any storage in windows because all you have to do is right click on the disk and an option is there rename, i have failed to find a way of doing this in linux ubuntu 8.04, but i understand its possible even in the command line, i need to rename my flash disk
View 1 Replies View RelatedI was wondering is there another way of renaming a file aside from using mv in linux?
For example changing /home/usr/blah.txt to something like -home-usr-blah.txt
I have a folder where all of my movies are placed. Each movie lies in its own folder. I want to write a script which renames all the movie files and gives them the name of the folder they are in.For example I want this file:/home/tryfon/movies/Black Irish [2007]/black.irish.dvdrip.avi to be renamed to /home/tryfon/movies/Black Irish [2007]/Black Irish [2007].aviOne issue is that the video files are of several file types (mostly avi, divx and mkv).Another issue is that some movies consist of two parts, so if a second avi file is found I would like the two (or more) files to be named like: "Black Irish [2007] CD1" and "Black Irish [2007] CD2", or if this is not possible at least notify me of the folders that contain more than one video fil
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View 3 Replies View RelatedWhen I try to rename a file in a mounted NTFS file system by only changing the letter case, I receive an error message saying that it is not possible because the file already exists. This must be because ntfs is not case sensitive as regards determining a file name. However, it can use and remember whatever case you want to use. So I can change the letter case in the file's name in two steps: saving the file with a different name first and then renaming it again with the original name and the letter cases I want to use.
View 9 Replies View RelatedI have a Netgear ReadyNAS NV in the basement, that I want to use to serve up video files over my network to a TV in the living room.
Now, I have a lot of files that HandBrake encoded and it gave the files an m4v suffix. Even when the files are in a codec that the TV can handle, it refuses to load them because of this suffix... so I want to rename them all.
This is fairly simple for files on a local filesystem. I can simply cd into the directory containing the files, and do something like the commands below.
Code:
$ for a in `ls`;
> do
> stem=`echo ${a} | cut -f1 -d"."` ;
> mv ${a} ${stem}.mpg ;
[Code]....
Although there are a few smb commands available (smbstatus, smbget, etc.), I've not found any commands like smbls or smbmv.
Are there any special commands or utilities around that can do the kind of thing I'm trying to do?
I'm trying to rename files recursively from a folder. I want to delete the & from every filename. i've searched the net and found the following script:
Code:
#!/bin/bash
dir=/whatever/directory
for file in `ls $dir` ; do
# ANYCASE TO UPPERCASE:
newname=`echo $file | tr '[a-z]' '[A-Z]'`
mv $dir/$file $dir/$newname
done
and changed it:
Code:
#!/bin/bash
dir=/home/test
for file in `find $dir -type f` ; do
#rename files containing &
newname=`echo $file` | tr '[&]' ''
mv $dir/$file $dir/$newname
done
But the for loop explodes the filename after each & sign, so i don't have a whole filename. if the file is named lorem & ipsum, the for loop will break it in 3 parts.
I managed to very stupidly (and avoidably) overwrite the hard drive that contained all my stuff--music, photos, home videos from the 80's that were painstakingly converted to digital movies, etc.After running Photorec and recovering much of the data to another disk, I'd like to be able to rename the music files using whatever exif data/tags are available.
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View 1 Replies View Relatedthe permission of 'renaming a file' is included in which right: 'read', 'write' or 'execute'
View 1 Replies View RelatedWhat's the command for renaming files? I thought it was "mv"--I typed "info" and read
Quote:
* mv: (coreutils)mv invocation. Rename files. So, desiring to give a .JPG extension to a jpeg file that had no extension (because I dug it out of my Firefox cache), I typed
Quote:
mv '/home/josh/Desktop/Natalie pictures/DEC8FFA5d01' *.jpg
That didn't rename the file; it made the file disappear from its folder. What did I do wrong?