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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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list block devices

Shows all block devices in a tree with descruptions of what they are.

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Replace multiple file extensions with a single extension

The above is just a prove of concept based around the nested bash substitution. This could be useful in situations where you're in a directory with many filetypes but you only want to convert a few. $ for f in *.bmp *.jpg *.tga; do convert $f ${f%.*}.png; done or you can use ls | egrep to get more specific... but be warned, files with spaces will cause a ruckus with expansion but the bash for loop uses a space delimited list. $ for f in $(ls | egrep "bmp$|jpg$|tga$"); do convert $f ${f%.*}.png; done I'm guessing some people will still prefer doing it the sed way but I thought the concept of this one was pretty neat. It will help me remember bash substitutions a little better :-P

Print diagram of user/groups

Parses /etc/group to "dot" format and pases it to "display" (imagemagick) to show a usefull diagram of users and groups (don't show empty groups).

Find Out My Linux Distribution Name and Version

Another way of do it in debian like distros, don't know if works for others

Show which process is blocking umount (Device or resource is busy)

Instead of using force un-mounting, it's better to find the processes that currently use the relevant folder. Taken from: http://www.linuxhowtos.org/Tips%20and%20Tricks/findprocesses.htm

clean up syntax and de-obfuscate perl script

the command show can be run in vim, here is the same thing on the command line $ cat script.pl | perl -MO=Deparse | perltidy

change exif data in all jpeg's

this takes every jpg in the current directory and changes the exif data for manufactur and model. in my case i change it to LOMO LC-A because my scanner puts his data in there :]

Kill all processes that listen to ports begin with 50 (50, 50x, 50xxx,...)

Run netstat as root (via sudo) to get the ID of the process listening on the desired socket. Use awk to 1) match the entry that is the listening socket, 2) matching the exact port (bounded by leading colon and end of column), 3) remove the trailing slash and process name from the last column, and finally 4) use the system(…) command to call kill to terminate the process. Two direct commands, netstat & awk, and one forked call to kill. This does kill the specific port instead of any port that starts with 50. I consider this to be safer.

Calculate pi to an arbitrary number of decimal places

Change the scale to adjust number of decimal places prefix the command with "time" to benchmark the computer (compare how long it takes to calculate 10000 digits of pi on various computers).

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