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Reorder file with max 100 file per folder

If you have a folder with thousand of files and want to have many folder with only 100 file per folder, run this. It will create 0/,1/ etc and put 100 file inside each one. But find will return true even if it don't find anything ... Show Sample Output
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Nothing but files and folder
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folder=0;mkdir $folder; while find -maxdepth 1 -type f -exec mv "{}" $folder \; -quit ; do if [ $( ls $folder | wc -l ) -ge 100 ]; then folder=$(( $folder + 1 )); mkdir $folder; fi ; done

Juluan · 2011-02-11 21:28:01 5
Reorder file with max 100 file per folder

Take a folder full of files and split it into smaller folders containing a maximum number of files. In this case, 100 files per directory. find creates the list of files xargs breaks up the list into groups of 100 for each group, create a directory and copy in the files Note: This command won't work if there is whitespace in the filenames (but then again, neither do the alternative commands :-)
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files -type f | xargs -n100 | while read l; do mkdir $((++f)); cp $l $f; done

flatcap · 2011-02-15 23:15:16 5
Extract 2 copies of .tar.gz content

Sometimes you might need to have two copies of data that is in tar. You might unpack, and then copy, but if IO is slow, you might lower it by automatically writing it twice (or more times)
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mkdir copy{1,2}; gzip -dc file.tar.gz | tee >( tar x -C copy1/ ) | tar x -C copy2/

depesz · 2011-04-14 17:02:05 6

Batch Convert MP3 Bitrate

Batch Convert MP3 Bitrate to xxxkbps, all the new files will be placed in a folder called "save". Please replace xxx with the desired bitrate. WARNING!!! This will erase any tag information; this is where Picard or EasyTAG will come in handy. Show Sample Output

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mkdir save && for f in *.mp3; do lame -b xxx "$f" ./save/"${f%.mp3}.mp3"; done

o0110o · 2011-05-30 17:19:36 5

make directory
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parallel -a <(seq 0 20) mkdir /tmp/dir1/{}

negima · 2011-06-28 08:50:32 5
copy selected folder found recursively under src retaining the structure

It's not better than the former, just another possible way. Found at http://www.linuxquestions.org/questions/linux-newbie-8/copy-directory-structure-only-208796/ Credits to whansard The command finds all .mp3 files in all subfolders from where it's ran, catches its "relative path" and creates inside /new/path/ with the same "relative path". PS: /new/path/ must exists Use case: folder with flac files with tree structure ../artist/album/number-title.flac 1) convert flac->mp3 in the same folder: http://www.commandlinefu.com/commands/view/6341/convert-all-.flac-from-a-folder-subtree-in-192kb-mp3 2) search for mp3 files and recreate tree structure to another path: this command 3) move all mp3 files to that new folder: http://www.commandlinefu.com/commands/view/8854/move-mp3-files-to-another-path-with-existing-subtree-structure Show Sample Output
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$ find . -type d -exec mkdir /home/myuser/new/{} \;
mkdir: cannot create directory `/home/myuser/new/.': File exists
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find . -type d -exec mkdir /new/path/{} \;

paulochf · 2011-07-18 05:17:39 4
rsync from one remote to another remote, only local computer has an open ssh key

rsync by itself doesn't support copying between two remote hosts, but if you use sshfs you can pretend one of them is local. If you have a passphrase-less ssh-key, you can even put this script into a cron job. A faster alternative is to run ssh-keygen on remote1 and put the pubkey into remote2:~/.ssh/authorized_keys, running rsync on remote1 (or vice versa), but the problem with that is that now a hacker on remote1 can access remote2 at any time. The above method ensures your local computer stays the weak link. Show Sample Output
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sending incremental file list
stuff/
stuff/file1.txt
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mkdir r1 && sshfs remote1:/home/user r1 && rsync r1/stuff remote2:~/backups/

unhammer · 2013-01-11 14:12:22 7
Batch remove protection from all pdf files in a directory

Replace YOURPASSWORDHERE with the pdf password. [qpdf needed]
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mkdir -p temp && for f in *.pdf ; do qpdf --password=YOURPASSWORDHERE --decrypt "$f" "temp/$f"; done && mv temp/* . && rm -rf temp

bufferoverflow · 2013-06-25 18:41:51 12
Move all epub keyword containing files to Epub folder
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IFS=$(echo -en "\n\b"); mkdir Epub; for i in `find . | grep epub`; do echo "epub: $i"; mv -v "$i" Epub; done

Wafelijzer · 2014-01-13 20:39:58 9
Move all epub keyword containing files to Epub folder
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mkdir Epub ; mv -v --target-directory=Epub $(fgrep -lr epub *)

pdxdoughnut · 2014-01-16 01:07:29 8
Mount a CD-ROM on Solaris (SPARC)

This will allow you to mount a CD-ROM on Solaris SPARC 9 or lower. This will not work on Solaris 10 due to void and the volume management daemons. www.fir3net.com
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mkdir -p /cdrom/unnamed_cdrom ; mount -F hsfs -o ro `ls -al /dev/sr* |awk '{print "/dev/" $11}'` /cdrom/unnamed_cdrom

felix001 · 2009-05-31 08:42:20 5

make multiple directories

make multiple directories within bash. www.fir3net.com Show Sample Output

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mkdir {1..100}

felix001 · 2011-02-21 21:09:37 34

mkdir & cd into it as single command

combines mkdir and cd added quotes around $_, thanx to flatcap! Show Sample Output
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~/#$ mkcd /path/to/new/folder
/path/to/new/folder#$_
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echo 'mkcd() { mkdir -p "$@" && cd "$_"; }' >> ~/.bashrc

phaidros · 2010-01-13 09:37:56 5
Overcome Bash's expansion order

no need for seq or eval
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mkdir ${1..10}

linuts · 2011-07-23 19:20:35 7
Create a git repository

Creates a git repository in a predefined location. Show Sample Output
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Initialized empty Git repository in /srv/git/mygit4/
Repository location: ssh://user@hostname/srv/git/mygit4
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git-createrepo() { repos_path='/srv/git/'; mkdir $repos_path$1; cd $repos_path$1; git init --bare; echo "Repository location: ssh://$USER@`cat /etc/HOSTNAME``pwd`"; cd -; }

batandwa · 2013-05-09 21:44:24 21
One-step create & change directory

I added this code to my .bashrc file
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alias mkdirr='function _mkdirr(){ mkdir $1 && cd $_;};_mkdirr'

nickvence · 2018-11-07 21:03:45 637
journaling directories

use today's time stamp to make a unique directory for today or an hour ago ... Show Sample Output
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Wed_Apr_29_15_53_58_CDT_2009
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mkdir `date | sed 's/[: ]/_/g'`

copremesis · 2009-04-29 21:28:45 36
make 100 directories with leading zero, 001...100, using bash3.X

no external commands, but can only do 0-99, not 1-100, so we adjust it later Show Sample Output
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mkdir 0{0..9}{0..9};mv 000 100

sitaram · 2009-08-14 16:33:20 7
Create a directory and change into it at the same time
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function mkdcd () { mkdir "$1" && cd "$1" }

shinokada · 2013-08-31 12:48:13 27
replace text in all files in folder, into subfolder

if you want to replace "foo" with "bar" in all files in a folder, and put the resulting files into a new subfolder
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mkdir replaced;for i in *; do cat "$i"| sed 's/foo/bar/' > "replaced/$i"; done

rubo77 · 2011-08-30 08:28:26 6
Go to the created directory after using mkdir
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mkdir() { /bin/mkdir $@ && eval cd "\$$#"; }

fnando · 2009-03-30 17:24:21 12
Create a directory and cd into it

Create a directory called "dirname" and navigate into it.
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Dir=dirname; mkdir $Dir && cd $Dir

saibbot · 2011-04-06 14:53:57 7
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 7
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debian/ubuntu get installed nvidia driver version from terminal

i've been writing a bash script where i needed to query the installed version number of the nvidia driver when it's not loaded. Unfortunately i have not found a easy way of doing this. If i'm a stupid person, please enlighten me of a better way ;)

High resolution video screen recording

$ gorecord foo.mp4 I've tried all of the screen recorders available for Linux and this is easily the best. xvidcap segfaults; VNC is too much hassle. There are alternatives of this command already here that I am just too lazy to reply to. Messing with the frames per second option, -r, 25 seems to be the best. Any lower and the video will look like a flipbook, if it records at all - -r 10 won't - any faster is the same, oddly enough. Edit: CLF doesn't like my long command to add audio, so here it is in the description. $ goaddaudio() ${ $if [ $# != 3 ]; then $ echo 'goaddaudio < audio > < src video > < dst video >' $ return $ fi $ $ f=goaddaudio$RANDOM $ ffmpeg -i "$2" &> $f $ d=$( grep Duration $f | awk '{print $2}' | tr -d ',' ) && $ rm $f && $ ffmpeg -i "$1" -i "$2" -r 25 -ab 192k -ar 44100 -sameq -t $d "$3" $}

Download an Entire website with wget

Convert a bunch of HTML files from ISO-8859-1 to UTF-8 file encoding in a folder and all sub-folders

This is my first attempt at converting all HTML files to UTF-8 file encoding, including all subfolders. Theres probably a much more compact way to do it, but I'm quite proud of it with my windows background ;)

Grab all .flv files from a webpage to the current working directory

I wanted all the 'hidden' .flv files from the http link in the command line; wget seemed appropriate, fed with output from lynx, grep the flv files and the normalised via sed (to remove the numeric bullet). Similar to the 'Grab mp3 files' fu. Replace link with your own, grep arg with something more interesting ;) See here for something along the same lines... http://www.commandlinefu.com/commands/view/1006/grab-mp3-files-from-your-favorite-netcasts-mp3blog-or-sites-that-often-have-good-mp3s Hope you find it useful! Improvements welcome, naturally.

return external ip

Find the top 10 directories containing the highest number of files

It can be used to pinpoint the path(s) where the largest number of files resides when running out of free i-nodes

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

swap out "80" for your port of interest. Can use port number or named ports e.g. "http"

recursively change file name from uppercase to lowercase (or viceversa)

Example of zsh globing, glob qualifier, and substitution: -Q state that the parameter will contain a glob qualifier. (**/)(*) is recursive (.) is our glob qualifier, with states the match is a file "." The first parameter $1, is then substituted with $2 but with lowercasing '(L)' ... a (U) would of course be from lower to upper.

Convert CSV to JSON

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