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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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Convert a MOV captured from a digital camera to a smaller AVI

Convert those .mov files that your digital camera makes to .avi Adjust the bitrate (-b) to get the appropriate file size. A larger bitrate produces a larger (higher quality) .avi file and smaller bitrate produces a smaller (lower quality) .avi file. Requires ffmpeg (see man page for details) (tested with canon camera MOV files) Other examples: $ffmpeg -i input.mov -sameq -vcodec msmpeg4v2 -acodec pcm_u8 output.avi $ffmpeg -i input.mov -b 1024k -vcodec msmpeg4v2 -acodec pcm_u8 output.avi

Convert CSV to JSON

Replace 'csv_file.csv' with your filename.

Recover deleted Binary files

The above command assumes the lost data is on /dev/sda and you previously issued the following command to mount _another_ disk or partition (/dev/sdb1) on /recovery $sudo mount /dev/sdb1 /recovery If you don't do this, the data could be overwrited! foremost is a very powerful carving tool. By default foremost recovers all known file types. If you want to reduce the amount of files that are recovered you can specify the file type you are looking for. Read the man page to know the available file types. i.e to recover JPEG pictures append to foremost the switch -tjpg

Convert a single-page PDF to a hi-res PNG, at 300dpi

If you skip this part: $ -density 300x300 you'll get a very lo-res image.

How to secure delete a file

Instead, install apt-get install secure-delete and you can use: -- srm to delete file and directory on hard disk -- smem to delete file in RAM -- sfill to delete "free space" on hard disk -- sswap to delete all data from swap

Remove all HTML tags from a file

A shorter version of command #3014, using awk instead of sed. Useful when scraping websites with a script.

save man-page as pdf

View online pdf documents in cli

Probably will not work very well with scanned documents.

export iPad App list to txt file

This will generate the same output without changing the current directory, and filepath will be relative to the current directory. Note: it will (still) fail if your iTunes library is in a non-standard location.

Transfer a file to multiple hosts over ssh

You can push files to up to 32 servers at once assuming ssh keys are in place. Great tool, it is part of the pssh suite.

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