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How to sort filename list (txt-file) by sub-strings of the filename/path with multiple levels. Special challenge: Two types of filename conventions
I'd like to sort the following list of filenames / pathes. L1_Data/level1/192027/LC08_L1TP_192027_20201126_20210316_01_T1 DONE L1_Data/level1/192028/LC08_L1TP_192028_20201126_20210316_01_T1 DONE ...
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Extract a part of a filename
I have the filename TRNPRD.STD.BSRE.BREX.J.20190520.V02.PRET on a Linux machine, from which I need to extract only TRNPRD.STD.BSRE. I tried the following command: echo TRNPRD.STD.BSRE.BREX.J....
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Extract filename from path string
I have a string like so /path/to/some/file.txt I want to extract only the file's name, without extension: file The problem is that this path is chosen randomly and I can't hardcode it into a ...
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Is there a command specifically designed to manipulate file path strings, such as changing foo/bar/baz -> bar/baz?
I'm trying to modify the output of git diff --name-only from a subdirectory of a git project such that it only contains relative paths in the current directory. I know how to do this with sed/grep, ...
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Finding specific string in XML file and storing in another file [closed]
Text in input file is like this <title> <band height="21" isSplitAllowed="true" > <staticText> <reportElement x="1" y="1" ...
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Bash shell script to remove a guid within a filename
I'm trying to replace a guid without hyphens from some file names. I have the regex done, I think, however I can't seem to get either the escaping correct or the replacement commands to work with ...
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How to find 4th and 5th character of files name?
$ ls abcmkde ghemkde vdecdde For example I only want to list out file name with only 4 and 5th character with only one iteration of single match (mk and cd in the example above). There is a bunch of ...
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Extracting number from filename
I have a filename following this model: 1.raw_bank_details_211.trg 2.raw_bank_details_222.trg I need to use the cut command in unix and cut the above string to obtain 211 and 222 from the strings ...
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How to grep the all filenames in folderA and (folderB inside folderA)?
I wanted to list down all the filenames within a folderA and another folderB inside folderA and saved it to a text file. The code I used is: ls -1 /home/CSV_XXX/* | grep ^'/home/CSV_XXX' >/home/...
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Add string from file to filename
I need to rename files to include a string found in the first line. ex: [acoder@test]# head -1 FILE001.DAT XYZ123 Here's my best guess: for file in /some/dir/*.DAT do CODE=`head -1 "$...
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Get rid of 000A characters in file names
what is that "non-printable" char called so I can use the proper term to find or ask How do I remove that Char in order to rename my file, getting rid of it without ridding any other Chars of ...
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Extract filename from another filename
I receive notification files for different files. I want to extract the filename from these notification files which I would use in another process. The first 4 strings of the notification file will ...
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How prepend appropriate amount of 0's to numbers contained in image names?
I've got a folder /User/me/Desktop/folder/images with files like key 1--name.jpg, key 10--name1.jpg, etc. The files are sorted incorrectly when fed to my site so I get an arrangement like key 84--name....
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Get directory name from file name
I want to make a directory name by extracting parts of a file name. Here are some examples: server.log.2016-03-20-14 → 20160320 server-2016-03-17-13-16-Restart.log → 20160317 I'm using HP-UX.
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Remove a part of a path from a variable content
In a Bash I have a variable: LOCAL_PATH="/this/is/a/path/" Then I have another variable, which content starts with LOCAL_PATH and it should be removed: LINE="/this/is/a/path/which/is/longer" The ...
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