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Installation Ksuperkey by one command in Kubuntu.

Install Ksuperkey one command in Kubuntu. You must manually add ksuperkey to autostart in System Settings KDE.
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sudo apt-get install git gcc make libx11-dev libxtst-dev pkg-config -y && git clone https://github.com/hanschen/ksuperkey.git && cd ksuperkey && make && sudo mv ksuperkey /usr/bin/ksuperkey && cd ~ && rm -rf ksuperkey

FadeMind · 2013-04-17 07:12:46 6
like rm, but keep backups of files and dirs in ~/.rm
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alias rn='mkdir -p ~/.rm`pwd`; mv -v -f --backup=t -t ~/.rm`pwd` "$@"'

koppi · 2013-04-17 10:56:21 4
Convert an SVG to png and crush filesize

Convert an SVG to PNG and then crush the filesize brutally with pngcrush. Good for icons and website junk that you want to keep small, expecially before base64 encoding. Uses inkscape, not imagemagick, as IM doesn't always handle gradients well. This way also seems to sometime save some file size (eg. 619 with Inkscape compared to 695 with IM). IM can do general images: img2png(){ png="${1%.*}.png"; convert -background none "$1" "$png" && pngcrush -brute -rem alla -rem text "$png" "$png.new" && mv "$png.new" "$png"; }
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svg2png(){ png="${1%.*}.png"; inkscape --export-png="$png" --without-gui "$1" && pngcrush -brute -rem alla -rem text "$png" "$png.new" && mv "$png.new" "$png";}

inductiveload · 2013-05-08 15:21:52 5
Split SQL/TXT File into 12000 Lines Each File and then Add .sql Extension to File

For some reason split will not let you add extension to the files you split. Just add this to a .sh script and run with bash or sh and it will split your text file at 12000 lines for each file and then add a .sql extension to the file name.
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split -l 12000 -a 5 database.sql splited_file i=1 for file in splited_file* do mv $file database_${i}.sql i=$(( i + 1 )) done

doczine · 2013-05-15 18:17:47 6
replace file name

This command will replace spaces in filename with number
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for i in * ; do mv $i $[j++].mp3 ; done

yangfeng724 · 2013-07-01 08:14:59 50
Batch JPEG rename to date using ImageMagick

Requires ImageMagick. Extracts date taken from image and renames it properly. Based on StackOverflow answer. Show Sample Output
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`IMG_0237.JPG' -> `2013_07_18_08_15_44.jpg'
`IMG_0238.JPG' -> `2013_07_18_16_47_24.jpg'
`IMG_0239.JPG' -> `2013_07_18_20_47_01.jpg'
`IMG_0240.JPG' -> `2013_07_18_20_47_15.jpg'
`IMG_0241.JPG' -> `2013_07_19_07_21_41.jpg'
```
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for fil in *.JPG; do datepath="$(identify -verbose $fil | grep DateTimeOri | awk '{print $2"_"$3 }' | sed s%:%_%g)"; mv -v $fil $datepath.jpg; done

unixmonkey63215 · 2013-08-02 01:42:04 8
Chrome, toggle default CSS style sheet

A very simple command to toggle Chrome?s default style sheet. It uses the test command to see if the "Custom.css.off" file exists, if so, it will become "Custom.css", and if not, "Custom.css" is moved to "Custom.css.off" Thus, swapping. This is accomplished with "&&" and "||"
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CSS=$HOME/.config/google-chrome/Default/User\ StyleSheets/Custom.css sh -c 'test -f "$CSS.off" && mv "$CSS.off" "$CSS" || mv "$CSS" "$CSS.off"'

Romero · 2013-10-06 00:38:00 7
Batch rename files from the command line (in this case jpegs)

I wrote a script to make it a bit easier and more flexable: #!/bin/bash #By GrouchyGaijin # Hard part (lines 15 and 21) by Vaphell #Last Updated: 04-Oct-2013 (Friday - yes see what I do on Firday nights) @ 23:37 #Put this in path and call it by typing batchrename in the terminal #Version 0.3 echo "This script is for batch renaming files." read -p "Enter the path to the folder containing the files. " path cd $path read -p "Enter the file extension. " extension echo "Press N if you want to use a new name or D if you want to use the date" read x if [ "$x" = "D" ] then i=1; for f in *; do mv -- "$f" "$( printf "$( date +%d-%b-%Y )-%04d.$extension" $i )"; ((i++)); done fi if [ "$x" = "N" ] then read -p "Enter the new base name: " new_name i=1; for f in *; do mv -- "$f" "$( printf "$new_name-%04d.$extension" $i )"; ((i++)); done fi #OK S11 - change this to Thunar nautilus $path
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i=1; for f in *.[jJ][pP][gG]; do mv -- "$f" "$( printf "new_name_of_file-%04d.jpg" $i )"; ((i++)); done

GrouchyGaijin · 2013-10-08 20:12:57 11
Mass rename files in git

Taken from http://stackoverflow.com/questions/9984722/git-rename-many-files-and-folders
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for file in $(git ls-files | grep old_name_pattern); do git mv $file $(echo $file | sed -e 's/old_name_pattern/new_name_pattern/'); done

lpalgarvio · 2013-11-19 18:33:23 7
fstab update
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mv /etc/fstab /etc/fstab.old && mount | awk '{print $1, $3, $5, $6}'| sed s/$//g|sed s/$/' 0 0'/g >> /etc/fstab

cas_alexi · 2013-11-26 06:31:27 6
one liner to rename files with for and sed

If you want to test output, run it like this: for fn in *.epub; do echo mv \"$fn\" \"`echo "$fn" | sed -E 's/\.*\/*(.*)( - )(.*)(\.[^\.]+)$/\3\2\1\4/' | sed -E 's/(.*) ([^ ]+)( - )(.*)/\2, \1\3\4/' `\";done > rename.txt Show Sample Output
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Input filename: The Big Wave - Pearl S. Buck.epub
Output: Buck, Pearl S. - The Big Wave.epub
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for fn in *.epub; do echo mv \"$fn\" \"`echo "$fn" | sed -E 's/\.*\/*(.*)( - )(.*)(\.[^\.]+)$/\3\2\1\4/' | sed -E 's/(.*) ([^ ]+)( - )(.*)/\2, \1\3\4/' `\";done | sh

woohoo · 2013-11-30 05:29:52 6
File rename with regexp

Renames all files in the following format xxxxxx - 34. yyyyy.mp4 to the following format xxxxxx S1E34 - yyyyy.mp4
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for i in xxxx*.mp4; do j=`echo $i | sed 's/ - $[0-9][0-9]$. / S1E\1 - /g'`; mv "$i" "$j"; done

tomtom99 · 2014-02-01 21:17:33 12
Call `svn mv` recursively to rename the C prefix from class names
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for i in $(find . -regex '.*\/C.*\.cpp'); do svn mv `perl -e 'my $s=$ARGV[0]; $s=~m/(.*\/)C(.*)/; print "$s $1$2"' "$i"`; done

nbolton · 2014-02-27 17:28:29 6
Re-encode all flac files below

Sometimes I get FLAC files that RhythmBox can't play but VLC can. So I re-encode them using GStreamer at highest compression.
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find . -type f -iname '*.flac' | while read i; do mv -- "$i" "$i.tmp"; gst-launch filesrc location="$i.tmp" ! flacdec ! flacenc quality=8 ! filesink location="${i%.tmp}"; rm -- "$i.tmp"; done

qdrizh · 2014-07-10 19:21:22 7
Git autocomplete

Downloads this raw script https://github.com/git/git/blob/master/contrib/completion/git-completion.bash from Github, copies it to your home directory, autoloads it in ~/.bashrc and sources it.
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wget https://raw.githubusercontent.com/git/git/master/contrib/completion/git-completion.bash; mv git-completion.bash ~/.git-completion.bash; echo "source ~/.git-completion.bash" > ~/.bashrc; source ~/.git-completion.bash

servel333 · 2014-07-22 14:21:00 21
Move all located items to folder

Find all books on my systems and move them into folder. The -0 switches are to handle spaces etc. in the filenames. Why would you need this? Locate uses an index, so it's super quick, and xargs is more elegant than a for loop.
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locate -0 -i *barthes* | xargs -0 mv -t ~/'Library/Books/Barthes, Roland'

qdrizh · 2014-11-16 18:26:35 11
rename all dirs with "?" char in name

rename all dirs with "?" char in name, leave spaces and () in place Show Sample Output
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dir?s -> dir_s 
 
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find . -type d -name "*\?*" | while read f;do mv "$f" "${f//[^0-9A-Za-z.\/\ ]/_}";done

miccaman · 2014-11-28 14:52:46 7

Unpack magnatune flac album and move artwork into album dir

https://www.magnatune.com depends on unp but does not need to but unp is the easiest way to unpack any archive. it's in Debian repo's. !note: it deletes flac zip when done, if successful. Show Sample Output

magunp() {for i in ./*-flac.zip ;do AlbumPath="$(dirname "$(unzip -l -qq "$i" |tail -n 1 |cut -c 31-)")" && unp "$i" && mv ./cover.jpg "$AlbumPath/" && mv ./artwork.pdf "$AlbumPath/" && ls "$AlbumPath/" ; rm "$i";done ;}

astr · 2014-12-25 15:04:56 10

function to fix files starting with =?UTF-8 and ends with ?=

I still don't know why mutt (or offlineimap or whatever in between), is borking the encoding of my files, but this fixes it. Show Sample Output
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It says nothing, it just moves the file with such a name to a utf-8 name.
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fix_saved_files() { for i in "$@" ; do mv $i $(php -r '$or = "'$i'"; mb_internal_encoding("UTF-8"); echo mb_decode_mimeheader($or) . "\n";') ; done; }

guillaume · 2014-12-27 20:37:16 8
Rename VM directory and files on ESXi

Replace VM directory and file prefix with new prefix Once the the file names are updated the config files will need to be updated using command similar to the following: sed -i -- 's/original_/new_/g' *.vmx sed -i -- 's/original_/new_/g' *.vmxf sed -i -- 's/original_/new_/g' *.file.vmdk sed -i -- 's/original_/new_/g' *_file_1.vmdk
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for f in $(find . -name 'original_*'); do mv $f ${f/original_/new_}; done;

rbocchinfuso · 2015-05-22 19:56:26 10
remove accents from file name

I had trouble with accent I could do a simple mv by hand but it is not efficient. I found this online http://www.unix.com/shell-programming-and-scripting/158635-remove-spanish-accent-file-name.html but I could not specify the accented letter direcly because it is not in the same encoding as my cli so I changed the char for their octal value. to add accent I use this table http://linux.about.com/library/cmd/blcmdl7_iso_8859-1.htm and add the values to the tr part. the other "duplicates" where not working for me. comment to help me better this script. :) Show Sample Output
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st?phanie[85].docx is renamed to stephanie[85].docx
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for f in *; do tmp_f=`echo $f | tr "\351" "e"`; if [ "$tmp_f" != "$f" ]; then mv $f $tmp_f; echo "$f is renamed to $tmp_f"; fi done

weapstyle · 2015-08-05 15:56:05 11
bulk rename files with GNU Parallel

Works with any file name: space, ', " and even \n is OK. The code in {= =} is a perl expression.
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parallel -0 mv {} {=s/foo/bar/g=} ::: *

unixmonkey91589 · 2015-12-25 17:22:43 12
Stripping filenames part

This oneliner will allow you to strip the part of names in a bunch of files. I needed this to rename songs names. Show Sample Output
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mv ./Another Way To Die - Disturbed.mp3 ./Another Way To Die.mp3
mv ./Asylum - Disturbed.mp3 ./Asylum.mp3
mv ./Crucified - Disturbed.mp3 ./Crucified.mp3
mv ./Innocence - Disturbed.mp3 ./Innocence.mp3
mv ./Ishfwilf - Disturbed.mp3 ./Ishfwilf.mp3
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for file in ./*; do mv "$file" "${file/part-to-strip/}"; done

leatherface · 2016-02-01 11:26:26 12
Strip beginning numbers in a filename

This oneliner will remove the number which begins a filename.
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find . -type f | sed 's|$.*/$[^A-Z]*$[A-Z].*$|mv \"&\" \"\1\2\"|' | sh

leatherface · 2016-02-01 11:29:20 13
Insert a date before the suffix of all the json files in a directory
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for i in `ls`; do mv "$i" "`echo $i | sed s/.json/_20160428.json/`"; done

rdc · 2016-04-29 12:32:22 12
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Create/open/use encrypted directory

Create/open/use an encrypted directory encfs needs to be installed During creation easiest to use default values The encrypted files will be in ~/.crypt and you will work as usual in ~/crypt To close the encrypted directory run: fusermount -u ~/crypt When you switch off the computer the encrypted directory will be automatically closed This example uses /home/user/crypt as encrypted directory I use ubuntu linux 8.04 and I am also the creator of www.minihowto.org

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Sort files in folders alphabetically

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Show a Package Version on Debian based distribution

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