Commands using mkdir

Creates a git repository in a predefined location.

rsync by itself doesn't support copying between two remote hosts, but if you use sshfs you can pretend one of them is local. If you have a passphrase-less ssh-key, you can even put this script into a cron job.

A faster alternative is to run ssh-keygen on remote1 and put the pubkey into remote2:~/.ssh/authorized_keys, running rsync on remote1 (or vice versa), but the problem with that is that now a hacker on remote1 can access remote2 at any time. The above method ensures your local computer stays the weak link.

I realise that this is just a reiteration of another entry (regardless of whether I came up with all this all by myself), but I would like present my additional alias' in context as a method of managing your directories. Rather convenient.

Creates a directory and then cds into it directly

You need to cp, mv, scp, ..., some files around from one place to another, and after having laboriously typed out the source path, you remember that the destination directory doesn't yet exist, and so the command will fail. So rather than killing the command line and starting over, just interpolate the results of creating the directory and echo its name. You could DRY this with a for; do; done, but that may be more trouble than it's worth.

shell function which allows you to tag files by creating symbolic links directories in a 'tags' folder.

The tag function takes a tag name as its first argument, then a list of files which take that tag. The directory $HOME/tags/tagname will then hold symbolic links to each of the tagged files. This function was modified from bartonski's (http://www.commandlinefu.com/commands/view/10216) inspired by tmsu (found at https://bitbucket.org/oniony/tmsu/wiki/Home) with readlink function by flxndn (http://www.commandlinefu.com/commands/view/10222).

Example:

This will create $HOME/tags/dog which contains symbolic links to airedale.txt .shizturc and weimeraner.pl

The tag function takes a tag name as its first argument, then a list of files which take that tag. The directory $HOME/tags/tagname will then hold symbolic links to each of the tagged files. This function was inspired by tmsu (found at https://bitbucket.org/oniony/tmsu/wiki/Home).

Example:

This will create $HOME/tags/dog which contains symbolic links to airedale.txt .shizturc and weimeraner.pl

Takes all the .3gp files in the directory, rotates them by 90 degrees, and saves them in the lossless ffv1 encoding.

If this rotates in the wrong direction, you may want transponse=1

Re-encoding to ffv1 may result in a significant increase in file size, as it is a lossless format. Other applications may not recognize ffv1 if they don't use ffmpeg code. "huffyuv" might be another option for lossless saving of your transformations.

The audio may be re-encoded as well, if the encoding used by your 3gp file doesn't work in a avi container.

creates 100 directories f(1-100) with a file in each matched to the directory (/f1/myfile1, .. /f98/myfile98,/f99/myfile99/,/f100/myfile100,etc )

if you want to replace "foo" with "bar" in all files in a folder, and put the resulting files into a new subfolder

The biggest advantage of this over the functions is that it is portable.

no need for seq or eval

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

if dir1 does not exists

Here was simple.

Batch Convert MP3 Bitrate to xxxkbps, all the new files will be placed in a folder called "save". Please replace xxx with the desired bitrate. WARNING!!! This will erase any tag information; this is where Picard or EasyTAG will come in handy.

Bash function copies a file prefixed with a version number to a subdirectory

Sometimes you might need to have two copies of data that is in tar. You might unpack, and then copy, but if IO is slow, you might lower it by automatically writing it twice (or more times)

This creates a bash function `take` that you can call with the name of the directory as the first parameter. Add the function to ~/.bashrc to have it available anytime.

Create a directory called "dirname" and navigate into it.

make multiple directories within bash. www.fir3net.com