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for ARG in * ; do sudo -u USER 7z x -o"$(echo $ARG|sed 's/\(.*\)\..*/\1/')" "$ARG" ; done
2012-12-31 19:47:24
User: n158
Functions: sudo
Tags: sed archive 7z folder for loop
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Extract all archives from current folder, each archive in its own folder.

Magic line will extract almost all possible archives from current folder in its own folders. Don't forget to change USER name in sudo command. sed is used to create names for folders from archive names w/o extension. You can test sed expression, used in this command:

arg='war.lan.net' ; x=$(echo $arg|sed 's/\(.*\)\..*/\1/') ; echo $x

If some archives can't be extracted, install packages:

apt-get install p7zip-full p7zip-rar

Hope this will save a lot of your time. Enjoy.

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find . -iname "*.jpg" -printf '<img src="%f" title="%f">\n' > gallery.html
2012-01-04 14:20:21
User: unixmonkey28233
Functions: find
Tags: image browser html folder image gallery
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Quick HTML image gallery

More compact and direct.

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chflags -R nouchg ./
2011-08-17 08:39:16
User: matths
Tags: svn samba osx folder
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make a samba shared folder writable, when doing an svn commit on OSX

otherwise you get this error message:

svn: Can't move '.svn/tmp/entries' to '.svn/entries': Operation not permitted

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find . -iname "*.mp3" -type f -print0 | xargs -0 -I '{}' mv {} /new/path/to/mp3/{}
2011-07-18 05:28:32
User: paulochf
Functions: find mv xargs
Tags: files move folder subtree
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Move mp3 files to another path with existing subtree structure

Use case: folder with flac files with tree structure ../artist/album/number-title.flac

1) convert flac->mp3 in the same folder: http://www.commandlinefu.com/commands/view/6341/convert-all-.flac-from-a-folder-subtree-in-192kb-mp3

2) search for mp3 files and recreate tree structure to another path: http://www.commandlinefu.com/commands/view/8853/copy-selected-folder-found-recursively-under-src-retaining-the-structure

3) move all mp3 files to that new folder: this command

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find . -type d -exec mkdir /new/path/{} \;
2011-07-18 05:17:39
User: paulochf
Functions: find mkdir
Tags: tree copy folder structure
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copy selected folder found recursively under src retaining the structure

It's not better than the former, just another possible way.

Found at http://www.linuxquestions.org/questions/linux-newbie-8/copy-directory-structure-only-208796/

Credits to whansard

The command finds all .mp3 files in all subfolders from where it's ran, catches its "relative path" and creates inside /new/path/ with the same "relative path".

PS: /new/path/ must exists

Use case: folder with flac files with tree structure ../artist/album/number-title.flac

1) convert flac->mp3 in the same folder: http://www.commandlinefu.com/commands/view/6341/convert-all-.flac-from-a-folder-subtree-in-192kb-mp3

2) search for mp3 files and recreate tree structure to another path: this command

3) move all mp3 files to that new folder: http://www.commandlinefu.com/commands/view/8854/move-mp3-files-to-another-path-with-existing-subtree-structure

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find . | perl -wne 'chomp; print qq|<img src="$_" title="$_" /><br />| if /\.(jpg|gif|png)$/;'> gallery.html
2010-07-04 01:43:50
User: spotrick
Functions: find perl
Tags: image browser html folder image gallery
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Quick HTML image gallery from folder contents with Perl

This includes a title attribute so you can see the file name by hovering over an image. Also will hoover up any image format - jpg, gif and png.

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find . -iname '*.jpg' | sed 's/.*/<img src="&">/' > gallery.html
2010-07-04 00:50:32
User: kniht
Functions: find sed
Tags: image browser html folder image gallery
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Quick HTML image gallery

My take on the original: even though I like the other's use of -exec echo, sed just feels more natural. This should also be slightly easier to improve.

I expanded this into a script as an exercise, which took about 35 minutes (had to look up some docs): http://bitbucket.org/kniht/nonsense/src/7c1b46488dfc/commandlinefu/quick_image_gallery.py

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find . -iname '*.jpg' -exec echo '<img src="{}">' \; > gallery.html
2010-07-03 16:36:15
User: Schneckentreiber
Functions: echo find
Tags: image browser html folder image gallery
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Quick HTML image gallery from folder contents

Setting: You have a lot of jpg files in a directory.

Maybe your public_html folder which is readable on the net because of Apache's mod_userdir. All those files from the current folder will be dropped into a file called gallery.html as image tags that can be viewed within a web browser locally or or over the Internet.

Original:

find . -iname "*.jpg" -exec echo "<img src=\"{}\">" >> gallery.html \;
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sudo find . -maxdepth 1 -cnewer olderFilesNameToMove -and ! -cnewer newerFileNameToMove -exec mv -v {} /newDirectory/ \;
2010-06-30 20:40:30
User: javamaniac
Functions: find mv sudo
Tags: file date time move folder range
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Move all files between to date

In a folder with many files and folders, you want to move all files where the date is >= the file olderFilesNameToMove and

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for f in *;do case "$(echo $f|sed "s/.*\.\([a-z\.]*\)/\1/g")" in zip)unzip -qqo $f&&rm $f;;tar.gz|tar.bz2)tar xf $f&&rm $f;;rar)unrar e -o+ -r -y $f&&rm $f;;7z)7z e -qqo $f;;esac;done
2009-08-17 03:50:50
User: matthewbauer
Tags: archive unarchive folder
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Unarchive entire folder

This will unarchive the entire working directory. Good for torrents (I don't know why they put each file into a seperate archive).

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