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tar and if-statement

I have a script that check if a file exist inside a tar file but something's wrong because it always go to the else part of the script. I am pretty sure that it shouldn't be that way. The date is in ...
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Delete all files in directories except those whose path are listed in a file

Given the following files: data/A/a.txt data/B/b.pdf ... date/P/whatever.log ... data/Z/z.jpg I would like to delete all files in the data/A/, data/B/, ..., data/Z/ directories except those files ...
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Maintain (or restore) file permissions when replacing file

I have a command that accepts a file as an argument, modifies the file, then writes it to the file name specified in the second argument. I'll call that program modifyfile. I wanted it to work "in ...
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Merging multiple lines selectively?

I have a large file in which a header line is followed by a string of characters at multiple times. eg: file1 VHBFBJBDSBVVFJBSV SVJBVHJBVJ SVKJBVJBNVKVJV file2 dfhgdgffdghgg SVKJBVJBNVKVJV I ...
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Replace filename with parent folder name

I have a bunch of files each in their own subdirectory. I need to write a script to rename each file to have the same name as its directory: For example, given: ./1111/1234.pdf ./2222/2345.pdf ...
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How to move a directory, file by file? (instead of “copy then remove”)

My computer has one 500GB drive. I want to move 400GB of data from /unencrypted to /encrypted. Both directories are on the same partition, but /encrypted is handled by ecryptfs, so mv /uncrypted/* ...
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Script to check a folder, print the files then delete those files

I am looking for some guidance on creating a script that will check a specific folder, print all documents (if any) and then delete those documents. I would also like to run this script as a cron job. ...
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Create sub-directories and organize files by date

I have some directories of files copied from my security camera that I would like to organize into sub-directories by file date. So for example; -rwxrwxrwx 0 root root 4935241 Jul 19 2012 ...
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Check whether files in a file list exist in a certain directory

The runtime arguments are as follows: $1 is the path to the file containing the list of files $2 is the path to the directory containing the files What I want to do is check that each file listed in ...
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How to implement a horizontal cat? [duplicate]

Standard cat concatenates files line by line (row by row, if you will). I find myself needing a horizontal cat command more and more often recently; i.e. a command that takes a list of files and ...
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TeXstudio: open file at line number n

I am creating a script to produce some .tex files with a lot of lines (a kind of automatic sample). The script finishes with texstudio /home/$USER/foo.tex where foo.tex is the file created before. ...
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Transform directory structure

I have the following folder structure root folder |-al2 |- GER.zip |- ENG.zip |-ww |- GER.zip |- ENG.zip and so on. The folder names are random strings. I want to sort the files in ...
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How to calculate in linux number of file inside nested directories?

I need to extract information how much files are in some directory tree: /.../testRoot/test1/test11/..../file1 /.../testRoot/test1/test11/file2 /.../testRoot/test1/test11/..../file3 ...
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How to delete the oldest directory in a given directory? [duplicate]

Possible Duplicate: Shell script for moving oldest files? I have a backup directory that stores x other directories that require backuping. I need something that will run before another ...
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Comparing files and their properties

I get information of a certain set of files in my mail every day, which looks like this: 58623208 Sep 14 20:08 blbn_blfbe_drv 57904920 Sep 14 19:54 blbn_cycmn 55814208 Sep 14 06:02 clsa_Upd 38912000 ...