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Move huge number of files into date structured directory order
I have about 1 million files in this directory: /home/username/images/
Each of the files are called something like: 012345678910(Place)_0_20120414185957_28841.jpg with the timestamp part of the ...
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Can I list only specific subdirectories?
I have a folder tree structure like
arndell
\_databases
\_daily
\_weekly
claremont
\_databases
\_daily
\_weekly
monte
\_databases
\_daily
\_weekly
and I am only after all files inside ...
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File extensions for unix shell scripts
On wikipedia, the article for .sh says:
For the .sh file extension type, see Bourne shell.
How about other unix shells?
I know that the shebang is used inside the file to indicate an ...
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How to start tailing a file that has not been yet created
I use tail to monitor the progress of jobs that I know will write their progress to disk. Almost always, I know which file they will create before they start running (the jobs are dispatched by a ...
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Shell script for moving oldest files?
How do I write a script for moving just the 20 oldest files from one folder to another? Is there a way to grab the oldest files in a folder?
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Delete files in a directory which are also in another directory
I copied a directory using this:
cp -r dir/ ../../
without thinking and realized that it copied the contents of dir instead of actually dir to the above directory. Now I have a mess of files I need ...
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How can I delete all files in a folder that haven't been accessed in a certain amount of time?
I'd like to run a nightly cron job that deletes all the files in a folder that haven't been accessed in a week or more. What is the most efficient way to do this in bash?
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Creating an empty file having a variable name in a script
I need to create an empty file using a shell script. The filename will be determined by examining all the files in a directory matching a pattern, say TEST.*, and appending _END to it so that the new ...
