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Comment out all lines in a configuration file matching a regexp, creating a backup.
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mv -i something.conf{,~} && sed "/regexp/s/^/#/" < something.conf~ > something.conf

jasonjgw · 2010-11-18 00:10:45 4
number files in directory according to their modification time

i use this after ripping internet radio streams to number the files as they originally played (even though streamripper can do this with -q). to number other types of files, or all files, just change the *mp3. to rename directories only you could use ... ls -lt | grep ^d | cut -d ":" -f2 | cut -d " " -f2- | while read ... Show Sample Output
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```
$> touch a.mp3 b.mp3 c.mp3 d.mp3
$> ls
a.mp3  b.mp3  c.mp3  d.mp3

$> IFS=$'\n'; i=1; ls -lt *mp3 | cut -d ":" -f2 | cut -d " " -f2- | while read f; do mv "$f" $(echo "$i"."$f"); ((i++)); done

$> ls
1.a.mp3  2.b.mp3  3.c.mp3  4.d.mp3
```
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IFS=$'\n'; i=1; ls -lt *mp3 | cut -d ":" -f2 | cut -d " " -f2- | while read f; do mv "$f" $(echo "$i"."$f"); ((i++)); done

m1cawber · 2011-01-22 00:21:12 6
Rename files in a directory in an edited list fashion

just an alternative to #7818 Show Sample Output
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```
Rename file: 1one
To: 1one.txt
`1one' -> `1one.txt'
Rename file: 2two
To: one plus one
`2two' -> `one plus one'
Rename file: 3three
To: 3three
Rename file: 4four
To: 2 x 2
`4four' -> `2 x 2'
Rename file: 5five
To: 5five.avi
`5five' -> `5five.avi'
```
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exec 3<&0; ls -1N | while read a; do echo "Rename file: $a"; read -e -i "$a" -p "To: " b <&3 ; [ "$a" == "$b" ] || mv -vi "$a" "$b"; done

forcefsck · 2011-02-08 21:21:39 166
Find the package a command belongs to on Gentoo
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equery belongs $( which mv )

mrwill · 2011-02-11 22:50:15 3
Remove acentuation from file names in a directory.
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for i in *; do mv -vi "$i" "`echo "$i"|sed y/????????????????????????/AAAAEEIOOUUCaaaaeeioouuc/`"; done; sync

agomes · 2011-02-28 17:54:11 3
recursively change file name from uppercase to lowercase (or viceversa)

Recursively changes every file case to lowercase
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for i in $(find . -type f); do mv "$i" "$(echo $i|tr A-Z a-z)"; done

pulketo · 2011-03-18 18:24:58 3
find pictures and renames them appending the containing folder name

find pictures recursively in a specified folder and renames the file name to originalname_containingfoldername.jpg
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find <folder> -type f -name '*.jpg' -exec bash -c 'ext="${0##*.}";path="$(dirname "$0")";name="$(basename "$0"|sed "s/.jpg//")";folder="$(dirname "$0"|tr / \\n |tail -1)";new="${path}/${name}_${folder}.${ext}"; mv "$0" "${new}"' {} \;

usernameusername · 2011-04-08 20:13:15 3
Losslessly optimize JPEG files for file size

You can also save EXIF information by copying it to temp.jpg: jpegtran -optimize -outfile temp.jpg <JPEG> && jhead -te temp.jpg "$_" && mv temp.jpg "$_"
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jpegtran -optimize -outfile temp.jpg <JPEG> && mv temp.jpg "$_"

h3xx · 2011-07-24 08:55:46 3
create a colorful image

Deletes unneeded files after every step and allows to use a color other than yellow at the last position.
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c=blue;convert -size 50x50 xc:$c $c.png; for i in red green yellow; do convert $c.png -background $i -rotate 20 $i.png; rm $c".png"; c=$i; done; mv $i".png" logo.png; display logo.png

Funatiker · 2011-08-21 15:59:11 4
Add crc32 checksum in the filenames of all mp4

Rename all mp4 files with crc32 information. Show Sample Output
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```
Video 01.mp4 -> Video 01 [A317C812].mp4
Video 02.mp4 -> Video 02 [C8E3551B].mp4
Video 03.mp4 -> Video 03 [D2F5E37A].mp4
```
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for file in *.mp4; do mv "$file" "${file%.*} [$(cksfv -b -q "$file" | egrep -o "\b[A-F0-9]{8}\b$")].${file#*.}"; done

skapi · 2011-09-13 16:53:28 3
Fixing maven POM messed up by a broken release.

When a large maven release goes wrong, by deploying just some of the artifacts letting others behind, some projects got wrong SNAPSHOT versions. This command comes to help! Tip: replace sed's regex by your version numbers
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find . -iname pom.xml -type f -exec bash -c "cat {} | sed s/1\.0\.46\-SNAPSHOT/1\.0\.48\-SNAPSHOT/g > {}.tmp " \; -exec mv {}.tmp {} \;

miguelbaldi · 2011-10-05 18:57:12 3
Tracklist reaplace backspace to '-'

for music file of mp3.zing.vn Show Sample Output
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```
Gui-Ngan-Loi-Yeu-Tuan-Hung.mp3
Heal-The-World-Michael-Jackson.mp3
Khong-Tin-Mot-Som-Mai-Binh-Yen.mp3
Kisses-and-Cake-John-Powell.mp3
Thu-Cuoi-Yanbi-ft.-Mr-T.mp3
Wait-For-You-X4-Band.mp3
```
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ls|grep .mp3 >list.txt; while read line; do newname=`echo $line|sed 's/\ /-/g'|sort`; newname=`echo $newname|tr -s '-' `; echo $newname; echo $newname>> tracklist.txt;mv "$line" "$newname"; done <list.txt; rm list.txt

hieuht · 2012-02-16 08:33:14 12
watch iptables counters

this alternative shows the differences as they occur so that they are made plain Show Sample Output
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```
@@ -28 +28 @@
-  339 27684 zone_lan_forward  all  --  br-lan *       0.0.0.0/0            0.0.0.0/0           
+  340 27768 zone_lan_forward  all  --  br-lan *       0.0.0.0/0            0.0.0.0/0           
```
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while true; do iptables -nvL > /tmp/now; diff -U0 /tmp/prev /tmp/now > /tmp/diff; clear; cat /tmp/diff; mv /tmp/now /tmp/prev; slee p 1; done

unixmonkey34223 · 2012-04-15 00:02:33 3
Rename files with unique, randomly generated file names

A simple way to rename a set of files to a unique, randomized file name. Show Sample Output
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```
hosts1.txt PjbKxiUXXM.txt
hosts2.txt q7qf8z15fx.txt
hosts3.txt qsIazSCGHm.txt
hosts4.txt GCWoo6oqMJ.txt
hosts5.txt 9CHc4MfCYM.txt
```
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for i in *.txt; do j=`mktemp | awk -F. '{print $2".txt"}'`; mv "$i" "$j"; done

yepitsken · 2012-04-17 17:13:32 4
Replaces spaces in filename with _ and converts upper to lower case

All files in the directory will be renamed replacing every space in the filename by "_" (underline) and converting upper case characters to lower case characters. e.g. Foo Bar.txt --> foo_bar.txt
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for file in * ; do mv "$file" `echo "$file" | tr ' ' '_' | tr '[A-Z]' '[a-z]'`; done

cengztr · 2012-05-06 17:54:06 3
pad file names with zeros so that files sort easily

This command takes a few changes to get to the file format, but once you have that, you're good to go. Set your environment variables and then change the text "front" and "back" to whatever you're files start and end with. You'll end up with some easily sort-able files. Show Sample Output
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```
mv front1back front001back
mv front2back front002back
mv front3back front003back
mv front4back front004back
mv front5back front005back
mv front6back front006back
mv front7back front007back
mv front8back front008back
mv front9back front009back
mv front10back front010back
mv front11back front011back
mv front12back front012back
mv front13back front013back
mv front14back front014back
mv front15back front015back
```
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zeros=3; from=1; to=15; for foo in $(seq $from $to); do echo mv "front${foo}back" "front$(printf "%0${zeros}d\n" $foo)back"; done

ClashTheBunny · 2012-05-17 10:54:45 4
convert single digit to double digits

This only includes files with numbers.
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for i in [0-9].ogg; do mv {,0}$i; done

zoke · 2012-05-18 18:02:26 3
Manually rotate logs

Edit as necessary. Should match the logs and the number should be least, greatest.
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or i in `seq 1 12| tac` ; do mv access_log.{$i,$((i+1))}.gz ; done

fobriste · 2012-06-13 17:46:37 10
Using Grep & Xargs to clean folders

In the example suppose we want to move all *.rar files in the current folder to a backupfolder
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ls | grep -Ze ".*rar" | xargs -d '\n' -I {} mv {} backup-folder

crisboot · 2012-08-06 09:07:03 8
find files between specific date/times and move them to another folder

touch -t 201208211200 first ; touch -t 201208220100 last ; creates 2 files: first & last, with timestamps that the find command should look between: 201208211200 = 2012-08-21 12:00 201208220100 = 2012-08-22 01:00 then we run find command with "-newer" switch, that finds by comparing timestamp against a reference file: find /path/to/files/ -newer first ! -newer last meaning: find any files in /path/to/files that are newer than file "first" and not newer than file "last" pipe the output of this find command through xargs to a move command: | xargs -ifile mv -fv file /path/to/destination/ and finally, remove the reference files we created for this operation: rm first; rm last;
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touch -t 201208211200 first ; touch -t 201208220100 last ; find /path/to/files/ -newer first ! -newer last | xargs -ifile mv -fv file /path/to/destination/ ; rm first; rm last;

ktopaz · 2012-08-22 09:51:40 6
replace dots in filenames with dashes, using sed

This command can rename all files in a folder changing all the dots in the filename for dashes, but respecting the final dot for the extension. Show Sample Output
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```
Image.1.2.png --> Image-1-2.png
```
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for f in *; do fn=`echo $f | sed 's/$.*$\.$[^.]*$$/\1\n\2/;s/\./-/g;s/\n/./g'`; mv $f $fn; done

conradolandia · 2012-09-29 02:10:00 8
Massive rename filenames

Renames all files ending in "_test.rb" to "_spec.rb"
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for i in `find -name '*_test.rb'` ; do mv $i ${i%%_test.rb}_spec.rb ; done

olopopo · 2012-10-09 14:08:38 4
Numeric zero padding file rename
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for i in $(seq -w 0 100) ; do mv prefix$(( 10#$i )).jpg prefix${i}.jpg ; done

madmike · 2013-02-03 23:23:01 4
Batch rename and number files

The '1' in '%01d' changes the amounts of digits in the integer, eg. 1 vs 0001.
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count='1'; for i in *.jpg; do mv $i $(printf '%01d'.jpg $count); (( count++ )); done

lalanza808 · 2013-02-20 06:38:25 6
Name retina images. if you get a bunch of retina images named like name.png, you can use this script to rename them properly. ie. name@2x.png
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for f in *.png; do mv $f `basename $f .png`@2x.png; done

jesly · 2013-04-09 07:45:44 6
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Hardlink all identical files in the current directory (regain some disk space)

Meaning of switches (see man page too): v verbose p ignore mode (permissions) o ignore owner, group t ignore time of modification Disadvantage: If you modify any linked file, this will propagate to all other files which occupy the same space.

Retrieve the size of a file on a server

- Where $URL is the URL of the file. - Replace the $2 by $3 at the end to get a human-readable size. Credits to svanberg @ ArchLinux forums for original idea. Edit: Replaced command with better version by FRUiT. (removed unnecessary grep)

Rip DVD to YouTube ready MPEG-4 AVI file using mencoder

Rip DVD to YouTube ready AVI file, using MPEG-4 video codec and MP3 audio codec. Resizes to 320x240 and deinterlaces as needed.

Terminal Escape Code Zen - Strace and Tput

Depending on the TERM, the terminfo version, ncurses version, etc.. you may be using a varied assortment of terminal escape codes. With this command you can easily find out exactly what is going on.. This is terminal escape zen! $ ( 2>&2 strace -f -F -e write -s 1000 sh -c 'echo -e "initc\nis2\ncnorm\nrmso\nsgr0" | tput -S' 2>&1 ) | grep -o '"\\[^"]*"' --color=always "\33]4;%p1%d;rgb:%p2%{255}%*%{1000}%/%2.2X/%p3%{255}%*%{1000}%/%2.2X/%p4%{255}%*%{1000}%/%2.2X\33\\\33[!p\33[?3;4l\33[4l\33>\33[?12l\33[?25h\33[27m\33(B\33[m" Lets say you want to find out what you need to echo in order to get the text to blink.. $ echo -e "`tput blink`This will blink`tput sgr0` This wont" Now you can use this function instead of calling tput (tput is much smarter for portable code because it works differently depending on the current TERM, and tput -T anyterm works too.) to turn that echo into a much faster executing code. tput queries files, opens files, etc.. but echo is very strait and narrow. So now you can do this: $ echo -e "\33[5mThis will blink\33(B\33[m This wont" More at http://www.askapache.com/linux-unix/bash_profile-functions-advanced-shell.html

grep lines containing two consecutive hyphens

for all flv files in a dir, grab the first frame and make a jpg.

This is handy for making screenshots of all your videos for referring to in your flv player.

Which processes are listening on a specific port (e.g. port 80)

swap out "80" for your port of interest. Can use port number or named ports e.g. "http"

Advanced python tracing

Trace python statement execution and syscalls invoked during that simultaneously

Send remote command output to your local clipboard

This command will copy command's output into your local clipboard

back ssh from firewalled hosts

host B (you) redirects a modem port (62220) to his local ssh. host A is a remote machine (the ones that issues the ssh cmd). once connected port 5497 is in listening mode on host B. host B just do a ssh 127.0.0.1 -p 5497 -l user and reaches the remote host'ssh. This can be used also for vnc and so on.

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