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Swap a file or dir with quick resotre

This lets you replace a file or directory and quickly revert if something goes wrong. For example, the current version of a website's files are in public_html. Put a new version of the site in public_html~ and execute the command. The names are swapped. If anything goes wrong, execute it again (up arrow or !!).
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mv public_html{,~~} && mv public_html{~,} && mv public_html{~~,~}

fuscata · 2012-04-16 16:37:05 3
rename files according to date created

The command renames all files in a certain directory. Renaming them to their date of creation using EXIF. If you're working with JPG that contains EXIF data (ie. from digital camera), then you can use following to get the creation date instead of stat. * Since not every file has exif data, we want to check that dst is valid before doing the rest of commands. * The output from exif has a space, which is a PITA for filenames. Use sed to replace with '-'. * Note that I use 'echo' before the mv to test out my scripts. When you're confident that it's doing the right thing, then you can remove the 'echo'... you don't want to end up like the guy that got all the files blown away. Credits: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/4710753/rename-files-according-to-date-created Show Sample Output
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```
'12379632.jpg' does not contain tag 'DateTimeOriginal'.
mv 15084688.jpg 2003:02:28-21:48:54.jpg
mv 15136312.jpg 2003:03:01-10:36:05.jpg
mv 15137960.jpg 2003:03:01-10:36:38.jpg
mv 15140744.jpg 2003:03:01-10:37:46.jpg
```
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for i in *.jpg; do dst=$(exif -t 0x9003 -m $i ) && dst_esc=$(echo $dst | sed 's/ /-/g' ) && echo mv $i $dst_esc.jpg ; done

klisanor · 2012-05-02 07:23:38 5
convert single digit to double digits

each number in a file name gets expanded to the number of digets provided as arg_1 of the arguments in rjust_file_nums. Put the funciton in the .bashrc file. Be sure to $ source ~/.bashrc so that the function will be accessible from bash. Show Sample Output
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```
$ ls
1i10.ogg
$ rjust_file_nums 3
$ ls 
001i010.ogg
```
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function rjust_file_nums(){for i in *.ogg; do; mv $i `ruby -e "print ARGV.first.gsub(/\d+/){|d| d.rjust($1,'0')}" $i`; done }

timrand · 2012-05-19 15:39:39 4
Increment the filename of png in a given directory by one
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for i in `ls -r *.png`; do mv $i `printf "%03d.png" $(( 10#${i%.png}+1 ))`; done

theneb · 2013-11-20 09:01:04 7
find xargs mv
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find . -iname "*.mp4" -print0 | xargs -0 mv --verbose -t /media/backup/

hochmeister · 2014-09-24 18:51:31 17
Adding Prefix to File name

Adding course name prefix to lecture pdfs Show Sample Output
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```
Input:
10_simplify.pdf

Output:
CS749__10_simplify.pdf
```
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ls *.pdf | while read file; do newfile="CS749__${file}"; mv "${file}" "${newfile}"; done;

programmer · 2016-04-19 11:04:47 16
Removing Prefix from File name

Removing Course name prefix added Show Sample Output
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```
Input:
CS749__10_simplify.pdf

Output:
10_simplify.pdf
```
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ls *.pdf | while read file; do newfile="${file##CS749__}"; mv "${file}" "${newfile}"; done;

programmer · 2016-04-19 11:06:43 27
bulk rename files with sed, one-liner

Far from my favorite, but works in sh and with an old sed that doesn't support '-E'
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for i in *; do mv $i $(echo $i | sed 's/foo/bar/'); done

frankenfatz · 2017-09-14 00:57:25 22
Download all default installed apk files from your android.
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for i in $(adb shell pm list packages | awk -F':' '{print $2}'); do adb pull "$(adb shell pm path $i | awk -F':' '{print $2}')"; mv *.apk $i.apk 2&> /dev/null ;done

wuseman1 · 2018-11-11 00:32:41 542
Rename all files in lower case
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for f in `find`; do mv -v "$f" "`echo $f | tr '[A-Z]' '[a-z]'`"; done

emanuele · 2018-11-21 11:52:31 618
Add date stamp to filenames of photos by Sony Xperia camera app

Sony's Xperia camera app creates files without time-stamped names. Thus, after deleting files on the phone, the same names will be reused. When uploading the photos to a cloud storage, this means that files will be overwritten. Running this command after every sync of uploaded photos with the computer prevents this. Show Sample Output
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```
'DSC_0075.JPG' -> '2020-04-11 DSC_0075.JPG'
'DSC_0076.JPG' -> '2020-04-11 DSC_0076.JPG'
```
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(setopt CSH_NULL_GLOB; cd /path/to/Camera\ Uploads; for i in DSC_* MOV_*; do mv -v $i "$(date +%F -d @$(stat -c '%Y' $i)) $i"; done)

langec · 2020-04-12 06:15:07 96
while series of video and subtitles have unmatched file names, rename subtitles the same as video files.

Subtitles' file names contain S04E01, S04E02, ... S04E12 and end with ".smi". Videos' file names contain S04E01, S04E02, ... S04E12 and end with ".avi". You can change the patterns by changing `ls *S04E$jj*.smi` and `ls *S04E$jj*.avi` parts. You can change the number of starting and ending file by changing `seq -f "%02.0f" 1 12` part.
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for jj in `seq -f "%02.0f" 1 12`; do rr=`ls *S04E$jj*.smi`; tt=`ls *S04E$jj*.avi`; mv "$rr" "${tt%.*}.smi"; done

beila · 2009-02-05 12:16:06 25
recursively change file name extensions

or, for a single directory: for f in *.c; do mv $f "`basename $f .c`".C; done Show Sample Output
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```
$ ls
kk1.c  kk2.c  kk3.c  kk4.c
$ find . -type f -name \*.c | while read f; do mv $f "`basename $f .c`".C; done
$ ls
kk1.C  kk2.C  kk3.C  kk4.C
```
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find . -type f -name \*.c | while read f; do mv $f "`basename $f .c`".C; done

berta · 2009-02-17 09:30:43 10
Overwrite local files from copies in a flat directory, even if they're in a different directory structure

You could start this one with for f in *; do BUT using the find with "-type f" ensures you only get files not any dirs you might have It'll also create backups of the files it's overwriting Of course, this assumes that you don't have any files with duplicated filenames in your target structure
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for f in $(find * -maxdepth 0 -type f); do file=$(find ~/target -name $f); if [ -n "$file" ]; then cp $file ${file}.bak; mv $f $file; fi; done

sanmiguel · 2009-07-08 10:18:06 6
Picture Renamer

Renames all the jpg files as their timestamps with ".jpg" extension. Show Sample Output
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```
2008-09-26 20-59-03.jpg  2008-10-25 22-27-45.jpg  2008-12-19 22-07-51.jpg
2008-10-02 15-01-42.jpg  2008-10-25 22-28-02.jpg  2008-12-19 22-07-59.jpg
2008-10-02 15-25-34.jpg  2008-11-04 16-44-20.jpg  2008-12-19 22-09-54.jpg
```
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ls -1 *.jpg | while read fn; do export pa=`exiv2 "$fn" | grep timestamp | awk '{ print $4 " " $5 ".jpg"}' | tr ":" "-"`; mv "$fn" "$pa"; done

axanc · 2009-08-10 00:52:22 3
Merge ( directories [looking for improvement]

Using a GUI file managers you can merge directories (cut and paste). This command roughly does the same (it doesn't ask for confirmation (no problem for me) and it doesn't clean up the empty SRC directories (no problem, trivial). probably does the same: cp -l SRC TARGET; rm -rf SRC
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(cd SRC; find . -type d -exec mkdir TARGET/{} ";"; find . -type f -exec mv {} TARGET/{} ";")

karel1980 · 2009-08-17 12:35:48 11
Move all files untracked by git into a directory
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git clean -n | sed 's/Would remove //; /Would not remove/d;' | xargs mv -t stuff/

drmaciver · 2009-12-07 13:13:14 6
Manage "legacy" service run control links

Change run control links from start "S" to stop "K" (kill) for whatever run levels in curly braces for a service called "myservice". NEWFN variable is for the new filename stored in the in-line shell. Use different list of run levels (rc*.d, rc{1,3,5}.d, etc.) and/or swap S with K in the command to change function of run control links. Show Sample Output
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```
`/etc/rc2.d/S99myservice' -> `/etc/rc2.d/K99myservice'
`/etc/rc3.d/S99myservice' -> `/etc/rc3.d/K99myservice'
```
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sudo find /etc/rc{1..5}.d -name S99myservice -type l -exec sh -c 'NEWFN=`echo {} | sed 's/S99/K99/'` ; mv -v {} $NEWFN' \;

zoomgarden · 2010-01-03 00:56:57 4
Batch rename files by their epoch last modified time.

This renames a pattern matched bunch of files by their last modified time. rename by timestamp rename by time created rename by time modified Show Sample Output
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```
Screenshot-10.png
Screenshot-12.png
Screenshot-13.png
Screenshot-8.png
Screenshot-9.png
  Becomes:
1274847969.png
1274848115.png
1274848316.png
1274848762.png
1275016796.png
```
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for i in somefiles*.png ; do echo "$i" ; N=$(stat -c %Y $i); mv -i $i $N.png; done

sufoo · 2010-06-01 19:28:05 3
Find, Replace, Write & Remove First 5 Lines

I wrote this script to speed up Nginx configs. This (long) one liner can be run via BASH. You will see that we set a variable in bash called 'foo' and the streamline editor (sed) finds 'bar' in 'foo.conf' next it writes that output to a temp file (foo.temp) and removes the first 5 lines (that aren't needed in this case) & lastly it moves (overwrites) foo.temp to foo.conf Show Sample Output
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```
server {
  listen 80;
  server_name www.foo.com;
  access_log /var/log/nginx/access.log main;
  error_log /var/log/nginx/error.log warn;

}
```
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variable="foo" && sed 's/bar/'$variable'/g' $variable.conf >> $variable.temp && sed '1,5d' $variable.temp && mv $variable.temp $variable.conf

jdorfman · 2010-07-09 22:12:51 9
Get a url, preview it, and save as text - with prompts

Thanks th John_W for suggesting the fix allowing ~/ to be used when saving a directory. directions: Type in a url, it will show a preview of what the file will look like when saved, then asks if you want to save the preview and where you want to save it. Great for grabbing the latest commandlinefu commands without a full web browser or even a GUI. Requires: w3m Show Sample Output
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```
*(me)*@ubuntu:~$ read -p "enter url:" a ; w3m -dump $a > /dev/shm/e1q ; less /dev/shm/e1q ; read -p "save file as text (y/n)?" b ; if [ $b = "y" ] ; then read -p "enter path with filename:" c && touch $(eval echo "$c")  ; mv /dev/shm/e1q $(eval echo "$c") ; fi ; echo DONE
enter url:www.google.com
save file as text (y/n)?y
enter path with filename:~/this
DONE
*(me)*@ubuntu:~$ 
```
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read -p "enter url:" a ; w3m -dump $a > /dev/shm/e1q ; less /dev/shm/e1q ; read -p "save file as text (y/n)?" b ; if [ $b = "y" ] ; then read -p "enter path with filename:" c && touch $(eval echo "$c") ; mv /dev/shm/e1q $(eval echo "$c") ; fi ; echo DONE

LinuxMan · 2010-07-13 22:36:38 5
delete all trailing whitespace from each line in file
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sed 's/[ \t]*$//' < <file> > <file>.out; mv <file>.out <file>

potatoface · 2010-08-23 21:35:11 3
delete all leading and trailing whitespace from each line in file
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sed 's/^[ \t]*//;s/[ \t]*$//' < <file> > <file>.out; mv <file>.out <file>

potatoface · 2010-08-23 21:38:08 3
Replace spaces in a filename with hyphens

Article mentions what each part of the command is responsible for. http://raymondcrandall.com/post/1360780719/easily-renaming-lots-of-files Show Sample Output
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```
A640 French painting seventeenth century front view.jpg

becomes

A640-French-painting-seventeenth-century-front-view.jpg
```
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for f in * ; do mv "$f" $( echo $f | tr ' ' '-' ) ; done

RaymondCrandall · 2010-10-20 20:07:33 9
move contents of the current directory to the parent directory, then remove current directory.

Avoid clobbering files by either overwriting due to name collisions or by assuming the command worked and deleting the target directory.
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mv -n * ../; cd ..; rmdir $OLDPWD

kevingranade · 2010-11-12 20:22:50 4
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Make vim open in tabs by default (save to .profile)

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copy/mkdir and automatically create parent directories

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Output entire line once per unique value of the first column

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Create an audio test CD of sine waves from 1 to 99 Hz

This command creates and burns a gapless audio CD with 99 tracks. Each track is a 30 second sine wave, the first is 1 Hz, the second 2 Hz, and so on, up to 99 Hz. This is useful for testing audio systems (how low can your bass go?) and for creating the constant vibrations needed to make non-Newtonian fluids (like cornstarch and water) crawl around. Note, this temporarily creates 500MB of .cdda files in the current directory. If you don't use the "rm" at the end of the command, you can burn more disks using $ cdrdao write cdrdao.toc Prerequisites: a blank CD-R in /dev/cdrw, sox (http://sox.sourceforge.net/), and cdrdao (http://cdrdao.sourceforge.net/). I'm also assuming a recent version of bash for the brace expansion (which just looks nicer than using seq(1), but isn't necessary).

Concating pdf files

Convert a string to

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Log colorizer for OSX (ccze alternative)

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