Use this tag for reviews of code that performs file system operations, such as creating, deleting, renaming, moving, copying, reading and writing files.
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Rename files to all lowercase letters
I use this Bash script to rename specified files to all lowercase letters:
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Safely include requested pages without a whitelist
Is this pretty safe from breakout attempts? I'd rather not make a whitelist and check if the requested page is in the array since theres a ton of pages. And I wanna keep it clean. So I'm looking for a ...
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1answer
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Counting the lines of a compressed file
This is a Python script for counting the lines of a compressed file:
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2answers
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Handling thread interruptions in a directory iterator
This code is code written on a whim to help $someindividual asking for such a thing on $somechatmedium; what is needed is a way, ...
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1answer
79 views
Changing desktop background to the next available one
How could I improve this working Perl script, which changes my desktop background to the next available one, without opening a terminal? Specifically, how could I iterate over my .fehbg and walls/ ...
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1answer
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Copying files in Haskell
I recently watched a video in which the speaker said that Haskell is not suited for real-world tasks, such as copying files from one folder to another.
So I tried to write a program that copies a ...
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Backing up an entire website with PHP
I'm attempting to backup lots of website using this php code. The script basically goes through the whole public_html directory and adds all the folders and files recursively and zips them.
Here's ...
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Ruby script to create git repos
I wrote my first ruby script, by this tutorial. It creates a local and remote git repo.
I have been working for about 3 years with PHP, and somehow I find that my ruby script looks incredibly ugly.
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1answer
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File Exists Script Task for SQL Server SSIS
I have an SSIS package for SQL Server 2008. In this package, I need to verify that a file exists that matches a pattern of SomeFileName_*.txt where the wild card ...
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2answers
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Merge all files in a directory with a specific extension
I come from Python, with a bit a FORTRAN and Matlab some years ago.
I'm trying to learn C. My first attempt at a program is one to merge all the files in a directory with a specified extension
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Operating on files from source directory [closed]
I have a small program that does a fairly trivial task. I am unhappy about the fact that I have everything in Main or called from ...
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1answer
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Unit testing a bash script manipulating the working directory path
bd is a bash script to conveniently jump multiple directory levels up from the current working directory instead of a tedious and possibly inaccurate ...
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1answer
48 views
Clear cache files older than 30 minutes
This is what I came up with to delete files not modified within the last 30 minutes from a subdirectory named cache.
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2answers
117 views
List files in a directory
I have folder1 that contains other folders (which may contain other folders etc). This process stops at some point where a folder contains only files, and some of ...
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1answer
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Glob-Like Search in VBA
The Dir() function in VB and VBA can accept wildcard characters (* and ?) but only in the basename of the path.
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2answers
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Concatenating rows in CSV files and removing old CSV files
I have written my first Python script that will go into live use at my workplace. I am relatively new to Python and I think this script is pretty good but I would like your input.
It runs very fast, ...
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1answer
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Should I add a function that takes as parameter a ptree?
I have a class ConfigFile that reads some values from a JSON using Boost and store them in variables. Everything is done in the constructor:
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4answers
225 views
Mounting multiple partitions on a disk
Is it possible to improve the code of this bash script? ... or should I just use another language? (If so, which one would fit the best the situation, according to you?)
Here is the code (simplified, ...
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2answers
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Putting all desktop items into a new folder
I'm quite a newbie with Python, but I wanted to try my own little project, so I made a small script that puts all the desktop icons/folders into a newly created folder (called "Desktop1") if there are ...
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1answer
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Searching for files across multiple code projects
I was tasked with conducting a large number of text searches in the code files of multiple projects. Initially, I just used the Find in Files feature of Visual Studio in a couple of the running ...
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Tree Utility in Python
I wrote this piece of code to mimic the *nix tree utility, however, I am not happy with the pad_info=[] part. It's used to make padding according to whether the ...
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1answer
79 views
Database and file backup script
I created a Backup class because I couldn't find one that worked well on Windows and remotely, to do this I have combined a lot of questions on stackoverflow with a lot of trial and error to get it to ...
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3answers
378 views
Splitting a path string
I have the following C# method to split a path string. The only thing I know is a fixed string in the path and I have to split the full path into two parts, first part should be one level below the ...
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2answers
320 views
Minimalistic rmdir
In my eyes most of the GNU stuff is bloated and doesn't really fit my view of how a Linux environment should look like. I have come up with my own minimalist implementation of the GNU Coreutils, but ...
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2answers
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A platform-independent implementation of “which” in Ruby
I like to know if there's anything that I may have missed in this implementation. The method tries to provide the absolute path of the binary or script which is likely to execute based on the provided ...
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Reading OS X file tags
I'm investigating Go for use in our internal network / office project management system, and need a way to check and edit the color tags that you can set in Finder on files or folders (extended ...
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2answers
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Directory listing model
I need a class to read and store directory structure. This is my first step in Objective C so I ask to you to say what you think.
Header file:
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1answer
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Should I contain use a variable to avoid mentioning a filename twice? [closed]
for example i'm deleting file if it exist
if(file_exists('path/to/file')){
unlink('path/to/file');
}
or is it better to use
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2answers
111 views
Group and send all files to filetype folder
I have around ~2M of files in one folder, which I need to manage. So, I want to separate them in groups by their filetypes.
Example:
filenames
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1answer
61 views
Pathname matching and listing program
This Python 3 program outputs a list of all pathnames in the filesystem
that match a list of rules taken from a file. You can add and remove
sets of pathnames.
The original purpose was to generate ...
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3answers
166 views
Scanning a directory for plugins and loading them
I'm working on a simple dictionary tool, with a base class that can be extended by plugins to represent different dictionaries. The plugins are organized in the filesystem like this:
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2answers
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Alternate method of iterating than os.walk
Recently, I became tired of how slowly os.walk seems to run (really, it should be called os.crawl), and made something recursive ...
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1answer
75 views
Parsing XML to send data into several files
My code works for the most part. (The problems are on the html side not the python side) however I feel it could run quicker or more efficiently. Due to the size of the XML document it parses it's ...
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3answers
410 views
Dictionary load function using hash table
This loads a dictionary text file into memory to be used as part of a spell checker. It's part of a larger program, but I wanted general comments so I can clean it up further.
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1answer
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Filewatcher compiler for watching different files
I'm trying to create a filewatcher program that can watch different files. The files might have subfiles that are being imported into the main file, which is being represented by the file object. I'm ...
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2answers
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File handling script
This is my first bash script so I ask to you to say what you think.
The script must check every directory and if it finds a pdf file in this directory: move all the pdf files to parent directory, ...
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vote
1answer
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Service class for Archiving and Mirroring Files and Directories
I am writing an application that either mirrors a file/directory into another location or creates a zip file "snap shot" of a file or directory and stores it in another location. The user is able to ...
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Getting a list of all fines in a local disk
I wanted to get a list of all files in a local disk like C:\, so I wrote the Python script below to check the performance:
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3answers
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Looping over files in C++ and changing their names to store data into a single file
I have a lot of data in separate files generated from a simulation program. All data is clear and formatted via a single space to read in 4 columns. I can open and store data from each file one at a ...
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1answer
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List files and download
The following code list all files in a folder and allows the user to download one of them. It is working but I think it could be done better.
Is there a way to reduce the number of forms to only one ...
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1answer
120 views
Faster file lookup
I'm polling an ashx handler to check if a specific file is present and return true or false depending on it.
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1answer
161 views
Optimize way of reading and writing file in node.js
I want to read the content of file then want to make few updates to content and then write that content to another file. I have created the code with node.js as follows.
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Search a file system for files that match a given pattern
My concerns with this code:
Is there a more efficient way to find files by pattern in Python?
Does os.walk() work in Windows?
Is this code pythonic?
Should ...
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4answers
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How can I prettify blocks with more than 2 of each block?
Actually, I just have no ideas.
How can I make breaklines to make it more readable?
Can anyone suggest ways on improving this?
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0answers
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Proof of concept and learning exercise for the 'ports and adapters' architecture
The script creates a simple app with a GUI containing a input field and a button to select a folder. On startup a default value is set to the input field. If the user types a value or selects a ...
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1answer
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A PowerShell script like one-way rsync but worse
This PowerShell script works a bit like a one-way rsync; it's good enough for my Surface RT needs, anyway. However, seeing as this is my first PS script, and I was ...
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2answers
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Trash Filing System
This is a script (function) to be added to a bashrc. The purpose is to not actually remove files, but rather to send them to a trash folder for safe keeping. I was tired of deleting important files. ...
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3answers
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“Scripting.FileSystemObject” Replacement module in VBA
I have found Scripting.FileSystemObject to be slow and unstable. Calling file_object.Name repeatedly has caused my code to crash excel on multiple instances. ...
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1answer
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Optimizing Perl script which looks for world-writable files
A script which scans a local filesystem and writes to a file a list of world-writable files found on the filesystem.
I ran it on a server with a couple terabytes of storage; not all of it used. In ...
