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Sometimes, you don't want to just replace the spaces in the current folder, but through the whole folder tree - such as your whole music collection, perhaps. Or maybe you want to do some other renaming operation throughout a tree - this command's useful for that, too.
To rename stuff through a whole directory tree, you might expect this to work:
for a in `find . -name '* *'`;do mv -i "$a" ${a// /_};done
No such luck. The "for" command will split its parameters on spaces unless the spaces are escaped, so given a file "foo bar", the above would not try to move the file "foo bar" to "foo_bar" but rather the file "foo" to "foo", and the file "bar" to "bar". Instead, find's -execdir and -depth arguments need to be used, to set a variable to the filename, and rename files within the directory before we rename the directory.
It has to be -execdir and won't work with just -exec - that would try to rename "foo bar/baz quux" to "foo_bar/baz_quux" in one step, rather than going into "foo bar/", changing "baz quux" to "baz_quux", then stepping out and changing "foo bar/" into "foo_bar/".
To rename just files, or just directories, you can put "-type f" or "-type d" after the "-depth" param.
You could probably safely replace the "mv" part of the line with a "rename" command, like rename 'y/ /_/' *, but I haven't tried, since that's way less portable.
Get mac address listed for all interfaces.
allow multiword translations
Converts any number of seconds into days, hours, minutes and seconds.
sec2dhms() {
declare -i SS="$1"
D=$(( SS / 86400 ))
H=$(( SS % 86400 / 3600 ))
M=$(( SS % 3600 / 60 ))
S=$(( SS % 60 ))
[ "$D" -gt 0 ] && echo -n "${D}:"
[ "$H" -gt 0 ] && printf "%02g:" "$H"
printf "%02g:%02g\n" "$M" "$S"
}
I just wanted a simple DNS request.
Because host and nslookup commands are not on all systems, we use getent instead.
Thanks aulem for that tip.
Shows all block devices in a tree with descruptions of what they are.
Halt script progress until a key has been pressed.
Source: http://bash-hackers.org/wiki/doku.php/mirroring/bashfaq/065
Negative shell globs already come with bash. Make sure to turn on extended pattern matching with 'shopt -e extglob'.
My take on the original: even though I like the other's use of -exec echo, sed just feels more natural. This should also be slightly easier to improve.
I expanded this into a script as an exercise, which took about 35 minutes (had to look up some docs): http://bitbucket.org/kniht/nonsense/src/7c1b46488dfc/commandlinefu/quick_image_gallery.py
swap out "80" for your port of interest. Can use port number or named ports e.g. "http"