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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
$2 is the path to the directory containing the files
What I want to do is check that each file listed in ...
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How to implement a horizontal cat?
Standard cat concatenates files line by line (row by row, if you will). I find myself needing a horizontal cat command more and more often recently; i.e. a command that takes a list of files and ...
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TeXstudio: open file at line number n
I am creating a script to produce some .tex files with a lot of lines (a kind of automatic sample).
The script finishes with texstudio /home/$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 ...
