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Numerate files, rename files in a directory by incremental number

Renames files in a directory to incremental numbers, following alphabetic order. The command does not maintain extensions.
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declare -i i; i=0; for file in *; do i=`expr $i+1`; mv "$file" $i; done;

themiurgo · 2010-08-26 12:24:38 5
Numerate files, rename files in a directory by incremental number
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declare -i i=0 ; for file in * ; do i=$[$i+1] ; mv "$file" $i; done

pepin · 2010-08-26 12:40:58 3
Move files matching a certain pattern to another folder
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find . | grep ".*\[[Church|CPYAF].*" | while read f; do mv "$f" ../emails;done

evandrix · 2011-06-12 15:37:28 3
remove all spaces from all files in current folder
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ls -1 | while read a; do mv "$a" `echo $a | sed -e 's/\ //g'`; done

antonangeli · 2015-10-27 12:52:47 14
Wordpress - download latest, extract, and rename config file.
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alias wordpress='mkdir wordpress && cd wordpress && wget http://wordpress.org/latest.tar.gz && tar -xvzf latest.tar.gz && mv wordpress/* . && rm -rf latest.tar.gz wordpress && cp wp-config-sample.php wp-config.php'

ahabman · 2009-02-26 03:23:18 6
Change password in list of xml files with for and sed
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for i in `ls *xml`; do sed -e 's,oldpassword,newpassword,g' $i > $i.2 && mv -f $i.2 $i ; done

irraz · 2009-04-24 08:53:40 9
replace strings in file names

rename is a great command, but can't get it to work on mac.
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for i in $(find . -name *replaceme*);do mv "$i" "${i//replaceme/withme}"; done

lefnire · 2010-08-19 03:22:15 4
Convert JSON to YAML

since Mozai said that JSON is a subset of YAML ;)
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mv data.{json,yaml}

bunam · 2013-04-25 07:47:32 8
check4progs(), func to long please refer to description

Thanks to the great grml team for this func! You really should look at their shell configs for further usefull things! http://git.grml.org/?p=grml-etc-core.git;a=blob_plain;f=etc/grml/script-functions;h=4d6bcea8f9beae83abd08f44155d299ea54a4a9f;hb=HEAD # {{{ check for availability of program(s) # usage example: # check4progs [-s,-q,--quiet,--silent] arg [arg .... argn] # # with option given either of: # -s,-q,--quiet,--silent # # check for available progs but produce no output check4progs() { [ -n "${ZSH_VERSION}" ] && emulate -L sh local RTN=0 local oldifs="${IFS}" local ARG d found local VERBOSE=1 case ${1} in -q | -s | --quiet | --silent) VERBOSE=0 shift 1 ;; *) ;; esac while [ $# -gt 0 ] do ARG="$1" shift found=0 IFS=: for d in $PATH do if [ -x "${d}/${ARG}" ] then found=1 break fi done IFS="${oldifs}" # check for availability if [ ${found} -eq 0 ] then if [ ${VERBOSE} -eq 1 ] then printf "%s: binary not found\n" "${ARG}" >&2 fi RTN=1 fi done # return non zero, if at least one prog is missing! return $RTN } # }}} Show Sample Output
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```
foo binary not found
bar binary not found
oh oh better abort now
```
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$ if check4progs cp foo mv bar rsync; then echo "needed progs avail, lets do funky stuff"; else echo "oh oh better abort now"; fi

Xk2c · 2015-01-01 16:16:00 8
renombrar un archivo que inicia con guion

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```
$ ls 
algo.txt -help
$ mv '-help' help.txt
mv: opci?n inv?lida -- h
Pruebe `mv --help' para m?s informaci?n.
$ find . -name "-help" -exec mv {} help.txt \;
$ ls
algo.txt help.txt
```
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find . -name "-help" -exec mv {} help.txt \;

petrohs · 2009-08-06 20:43:30 8
Move all files with common extension to current directory

This is useful if you have a collection of files in folders (for example, a bunch of .zip files that are contained in folders) and you want to move them all to a common folder.
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mv `find .zip ./` .

smcpherson · 2009-03-27 04:42:48 14
Replace spaces with '_' in filenames

Takes filenames and directory names and replace space to '_'.
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find -depth . | (while read FULLPATH; do BASENAME=`basename "${FULLPATH}"`; DIRNAME=`dirname "${FULLPATH}"`; mv "${DIRNAME}/${BASENAME}" "${DIRNAME}/${BASENAME// /_}"; done)

mohan43u · 2009-03-24 21:04:32 11
mkdir some file and mv some file

mkdir some file and mv some file Show Sample Output
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```
mkdir some file and mv some file
```
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for i in `seq 100`;do mkdir f{1..100} touch myfile$i mv myfile$i f$i;done

gaowei · 2009-11-24 13:54:41 6
Hide files and folders on GNOME Desktop.
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cd ~/Desktop && for FILES in $(ls); do mv $FILES .${FILES}; done

kjell81d · 2010-10-05 15:16:30 6
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Create a tar archive with all files of a certain type found in present dir and subdirs

Note: the tar archive must not exist in order to create it. If exists it will only be updated and no already existent files in present search will still remain in the tar archive. The update option has to be used instead of create because the command tar may be executed more than once depending on the number of arguments that find throws. You can see maximum number of arguments with 'getconf ARG_MAX'

Using Git, stage all manually deleted files.

-u tells git to automatically stage all changes to files in the index (eg. deleted and modified files). See: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1402776/how-do-i-commit-all-deleted-files-in-git http://kernel.org/pub/software/scm/git/docs/git-add.html

Create a large test file (taking no space).

List your MACs address

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Follow the most recently updated log files

This command finds the 5 (-n5) most frequently updated logs in /var/log, and then does a multifile tail follow of those log files. Alternately, you can do this to follow a specific list of log files: sudo tail -n0 -f /var/log/{messages,secure,cron,cups/error_log}

Get current Xorg resolution via xrandr

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tar+pbzip2 a dir

Set pcap & SUID Bit for priv. network programs (like nmap)

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

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