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How can I move files and view the progress (e.g. with a progress bar)?
When moving large directories using mv, is there a way to view the progress (%)?
The cp command on gentoo had a -g switch that showed the progress.
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Quick way to include a directory path when calling mv?
Often I will work out of the root of a rails directory where I find my self navigating the same path twice every time I would like to move a file:
mv app/views/layouts/application.html.erb ...
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Batch renaming files
I have a directory full of images:
image0001.png
image0002.png
image0003.png
...
And I would like a one-liner to rename them to (say).
0001.png
0002.png
0003.png
...
How do I do this?
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Why unix mv program doesn't need -R (recursive) option for directories but cp does need it?
This is a kind of "wtf?" question, so I'm sorry if I will disturb someone's vision of how things should be or if I will just annoy you with the "stupid" question.
I always get messed up when need to ...
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How to overwrite target files with mv?
I have a ton of files and dirs in a subdirectory I want to move to the parent directory. There are already some files and dirs in the target directory which need to be overwritten. Files that are only ...
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What does mv do in case of errors?
I've just tried to move a big tree from one disk to another, which was too small. Now, I'm left with something I can't really understand - it looks like some files were indeed moved away from the ...
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How to remove the (1) from filenames using the find command
I recently converted all of my FLAC files to a lower sampling rate of 44.1 kHz and bit depth of 24 bits (because iPhone/iPod don't support anything above that) using XLD on my Mac OS 10.7 (Lion).
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How do you move all files (including hidden) in a directory to another?
How do I move all files in a directory (including the hidden ones) to another directory?
For example, if I have a folder "Foo" with the files ".hidden" and "notHidden" inside, how do I move both ...
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How do open files behave on linux systems?
I just renamed a log file to "foo.log.old", and assumed that the application will start writing a new logfile at "foo.log". I was surprised to discover that it tracked the logfile to its new name, and ...
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bulk rename (or correctly display) files with special characters
I have a bunch of directories and subdirectories that contain files with special characters, like this file:
robbie@phil:~$ ls test�sktest.txt
test?sktest.txt
Find reveals an escape sequence:
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How to choose directory name during untarring
Say I have file named ugly_name.tar, which when extracted, becomes ugly_name directory. What command can I use such that the resulting directory name is pretty_name instead?
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Strategies for maintaining a reference to a file after it was moved or renamed?
I've had a mac at work lately, and was amazed to see that Xcode would still find my latest project after I renamed its folder and moved it someplace else.
Now I understand that this is the result of ...
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How to replace one char with another in all filenames of the current directories?
How do you rename all files/subdirs in the current folder?
Lets say, I have many files and subdirs that are with spaces and I want to replace all the spaces with an underscore.
File 1
File 2
File 3
...
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Flattening a nested directory
This is probably very simple, but I can't figure it out. I have a directory structure like this (dir2 is inside dir1):
/dir1
/dir2
|
--- file1
|
--- file2
What is ...
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How do you bulk move files up one directory safely?
How can I move files up a directory where there might be hundreds or thousands of files in the directory, and you might not be sure about whether there are dupes in ... What method would you use?
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