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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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seq (argc=2) for FreeBSD

Find usb device in realtime

Using this command you can track a moment when usb device was attached.

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"

Display two calendar months side by side

Displays last month, current month, and next month side by side.

Recover a deleted file

grep searches through a file and prints out all the lines that match some pattern. Here, the pattern is some string that is known to be in the deleted file. The more specific this string can be, the better. The file being searched by grep (/dev/sda1) is the partition of the hard drive the deleted file used to reside in. The ?-a? flag tells grep to treat the hard drive partition, which is actually a binary file, as text. Since recovering the entire file would be nice instead of just the lines that are already known, context control is used. The flags ?-B 25 -A 100? tell grep to print out 25 lines before a match and 100 lines after a match. Be conservative with estimates on these numbers to ensure the entire file is included (when in doubt, guess bigger numbers). Excess data is easy to trim out of results, but if you find yourself with a truncated or incomplete file, you need to do this all over again. Finally, the ?> results.txt? instructs the computer to store the output of grep in a file called results.txt. Source: http://spin.atomicobject.com/2010/08/18/undelete?utm_source=y-combinator&utm_medium=social-media&utm_campaign=technical

Set executable permissions on a file under Subversion

This avoids the "chmod +x filename" after performing a check out or export. From http://snipplr.com/view/5277/set-executable-permissions-on-a-file-under-subversion/

Fill a hard drive with ones - like zero-fill, but the opposite :)

Note: Replace 200000 with drive bytes/512, and /dev/sdx with the destination drive/partition. ;) Note: You may need to install pipebench, this is easy with "sudo apt-get install pipebench" on Ubuntu. The reason I hunted around for the pieces to make up this command is that I wanted to specifically flip all of the bits on a new HDD, before running an Extended SMART Self-Test (actually, the second pass, as I've already done one while factory-zeroed) to ensure there are no physical faults waiting to compromise my valuable data. There were several sites that came up in a Google search which had a zero-fill command with progress indicator, and one or two with a fill-with-ones command, but none that I could find with these two things combined (I had to shuffle around the dd command(s) to get this to happen without wasting speed on an md5sum as well). For reference, these are the other useful-looking commands I found in my search: Zero-fill drive "/dev/sdx", with progress indicator and md5 verification (run sudo fdisk -l to get total disk bytes, then divide by 512 and enter the resulting value into this command for a full wipe) $ dd if=/dev/zero bs=512 count= | pipebench | sudo tee /dev/sdx | md5sum And this command for creating a file filled with ones is my other main source (besides the above command and man pages, that is - I may be a Linux newbie but I do read!): $ tr '\000' '\377' < /dev/zero | dd of=allones bs=1024 count=2k Hope someone finds this useful! :) Cheers, - Gliktch

Install pip with Proxy

Installs pip packages defining a proxy

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Show directories in the PATH, one per line

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