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Terminal - Commands using file - 141 results

season=1; for file in $(ls) ; do dir=$(echo $file | sed 's/.*S0$season$E[0-9]\{2\}$.*/\1/'); mkdir $dir ; mv $file $dir; done

2009-05-27 03:30:58

User: lonecat

Functions: echo file mkdir mv sed

Tags: Videos organize

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Organize a TV-Series season

It happened to me that I got a season of a tv-show which had all files under the same folder like /home/blah/tv_show/season1/file{1,2,3,4,5,...}.avi

But I like to have them like this:

/home/blah/tv_show/season1/e{1,2,3,4,5,...}/file{1,2,3,4,5,...}.avi

So I can have both the srt and the avi on one folder without cluttering much. This command organizes everything assuming that the filename contains Exx where xx is the number of the episode.

You may need to set:

IFS=$'\n'

if your filenames have spaces.

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for file in <directory A>/*; do rm <directory B>/`basename $file`; done

2009-05-04 12:44:50

User: jamiebullock

Functions: file rm

Tags: delete rm

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Delete all files found in directory A from directory B

This command is useful if you accidentally untar or unzip an archive in a directory and you want to automatically remove the files. Just untar the files again in a subdirectory and then run the above command e.g.

for file in ~/Desktop/temp/*; do rm ~/Desktop/`basename $file`; done

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for file in $(find -type f -iname "*wav"); do mv $file "$file"_orig.WAV; mplayer -ao pcm "$file"_orig.WAV -ao pcm:file=$file; done

2009-04-06 21:36:04

User: oernii

Functions: file find mv

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convert all WAVs from any format (MS ADPCM) to PCM

I needed this for wine.

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find . $ -type d -name .svn -prune $ -o -print | while read file ; do mergeinfo=`svn propget svn:mergeinfo $file` ; [ "$mergeinfo" != "" ] && echo -e "$file\n $mergeinfo\n" ; done

2009-04-04 23:26:03

User: troelskn

Functions: echo file find read

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Show all mergeinfo for a svn subtree

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for file in `find . -type f`; do cat $file; done | wc -l

2009-03-18 06:50:10

User: tejparkash

Functions: cat file wc

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Count number of Line for all the files in a directory recursively

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awk -F "=| "

2009-03-02 21:09:51

User: Bender

Functions: awk cat file

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awk using multiple field separators

You can use multiple field separators by separating them with | (=or).

This may be helpful when you want to split a string by two separators for example.

#echo "one=two three" | awk -F "=| " {'print $1, $3'}

one three

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count=`wc -l file | cut -d ' ' -f1`

2009-02-25 21:21:47

User: vmplacco

Functions: cut file

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stores the number of lines of "file" in a variable to use in a loop

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split -b 19m file Nameforpart

2009-02-25 15:24:06

User: vranx

Functions: file split

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Split File in parts

Split File in 19 MB big parts, putting parts together again via

cat Nameforpartaa Nameforpartab Nameforpartac >> File

smbcacls //server/sharename file -U username

2009-02-16 18:52:14

User: drossman

Functions: file

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read Windows ACLs from Linux

You can read, add, delete and modify Windows permissions from Linux using smbcacls from the smb-client package.

bzr init .;for file in `ls *.bz2`; do bzr import $file; bzr ci -m $file; done

2009-02-16 04:19:03

User: statik

Functions: file init

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converts a directory full of source tarballs into a bzr repository so you can compare different versions easily

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for h in host1 host2 host3 host4 ; { scp file user@$h:/destination_path/ ; }

2009-02-16 01:02:35

User: andrewtayloruk

Functions: file scp

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Copy something to multiple SSH hosts with a Bash loop

Just a quick and simple one to demonstrate Bash For loop. Copies 'file' to multiple ssh hosts.

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for file in *.png; do convert "$file" "$(basename $file .png).gif"; done

2009-02-15 23:39:08

User: brettalton

Functions: file

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Convert PNG to GIF

(relies on 'imagemagick')

Convert all .png files to .gif. This can also go the other way if you reverse the file extensions in the command, e.g.:

for file in *.gif; do convert "$file" "$(basename $file .gif).png"; done

If the file is named 'example1.png' it will be named 'example1.gif' when it is complete.

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for file in `ls *.pdf`; do convert -verbose -colorspace RGB -resize 800 -interlace none -density 300 -quality 80 $file `echo $file | sed 's/\.pdf$/\.jpg/'`; done

2009-02-15 23:27:43

User: brettalton

Functions: file sed

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Convert PDF to JPG

(relies on 'imagemagick')

This command will convert all .pdf files in a directory into a 800px (wide or height, whichever is smaller) image (with the aspect ratio kept) .jpg.

If the file is named 'example1.pdf' it will be named 'example1.jpg' when it is complete.

This is a VERY worthwhile command! People pay hundreds of dollars for this in the Windows world.

My .jpg files average between 150kB to 300kB, but your's may differ.

split -b 1k file ; cat x* > file

2009-02-08 23:10:18

User: abcde

Functions: cat file split

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Split and join with split and cat.

`split -b 1k file` splits files into 1k chunks. Rejoin them with `cat x* > file`.

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file !$

2009-02-06 15:41:08

User: leprasmurf

Functions: file

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Use last argument of last command

Bash shortcut to work with the last argument of your last command

fsutil file createnew FILENAME filesize(inbytes)

2009-02-05 17:36:33

User: archlich

Functions: file

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Create files of arbitrary size in Windows

This command creates a file of arbitrary size in a windows environment.

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