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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Error handling in directory iterator using promises
I wrote this example of IS.File.directoryIterator for Firefox.
Can you please help me to review it so if an error occurs it is caught? I'm not so great with ...
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Python path-breaking script for use in R
R does not support line continuation as Python, and it's disturbing to have long file paths like
/media/user/data/something-not-very-important-but-super-long/some-curious-secret-file.pdf
and ...
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C# photo sorter
I am quite new to C#, currently working through a number of pluralSight courses.
I've written a few small things here and there, but never anything that performed an entire purpose/function from ...
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Search through .xml files for text that exists anywhere in the file
I have about 1000 .xml files in different sub directories under one root folder.
My root directory contains the below structure:
RootDir\172\00ad8dc-bff\25.0.xml
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Check disk space against a threshold
The below script is one I made to check the disk space on mounted partitions under Debian Wheezy. I tried adding a -d switch to force printing out the used data, ...
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Monitoring directories for files that are generated by an engineering program
I have a service that monitors failure and success directories for files that are generated by an engineering program. I want to check the change was in the success or failure folder, and if it was a ...
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Find directories containing jar files and call other program to scan them for vulnerable versions
I wrote a Python script to collect a list of directories containing third party libraries and submit them all to dependency-check, a program that compares library versions to known-vulnerable third ...
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Fastest way searching specific files
I got thousands of files with a specific file extension in thousands of sub folders. Now, what is the fastest way to search with a pattern? I tried the method ...
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Filesystem-dependant unit-testing in go
I recently rewrote a piece of software to practice unit-testing. I decided to constrain myself and do dependency-free code, so I can do better and easier tests. I came to the following solution while ...
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Copy directories while changing Unicode filenames to ASCII
I created a short Perl 6 script copyfnameascii.pl to copy a file hierarchy I have, applying an URL Decoding to the names of folders and removing non-ASCII ...
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TrackDAO: what can be improved?
In this specific situation there is a table with trackdata and a form to add rows. For the sake of clarity I won't include the view-related code here. The added rows are added to a LinkedList when ...
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1answer
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Enumerate directories to a given search depth
Since I had been in the need of finding directories from a startpath with different search depth levels, I created this little helper class.
This class is using objects of the ...
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Copy a directory from source to destination
I wrote a program that copies a directory from a source to a destination, similar to the cp utility.
For this, I used the essential functions:
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1answer
44 views
Rename files to titlecased
I wrote this Python script to rename specified files to "titlecase", for example:
hello.txt to Hello.txt
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1answer
43 views
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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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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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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Renaming and moving files in a subdirectory with an index and the folder name
I'm putting together a script to take .mp4 files organized into folders that described the video (eg. cat) and I'd like to do the following:
rename them with the folder name and a number
move the ...
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1answer
271 views
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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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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Random song playing app improvements
I have a substantial music collection, which will not load entirely in any music program.
So I wrote this quick program, to play a random song in a subfolder of my music directory.
I'm just ...
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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
45 views
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
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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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107 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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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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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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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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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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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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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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Cart mover- OOP usage and learning design patterns
Firstly, I would like to say that this site looks fantastic... I haven't tried it out yet, but I'm coming from SO, so I think it will be great.
My code is for a simple "cart-creation" class and ...
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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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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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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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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 ...
