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How to run a command that requires input/output location on all folders in a directory, while correspondingly naming the new output folders?
For context, I have some experience with Unix and basic commands, but I'm seriously struggling to conceptualize more complex manipulations of files. Essentially, I have this command I want to run from ...
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Command-line tool enabling tagging and related tags functionality
Is there a command-line tool that enables to give a file more attributes than a name? For example, we have a file called ubuntu.pdf and we give it tags like command-line, shell, nautilus, ...
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Redirect to a filename that will be a variable and contain a command substitution
I'm using nmap to scan a network and then create an XML file that contains the scanned information. I want that XML file to contain the date of the scan so that each file is unique and I can see the ...
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Ext4 and Linux - very large number of files in one directory - operations
I have a problem with a very large number of files in one directory. The file system is ext4. I reached the 2**32 file limit and couldn't even write any file on this partition. The problem is very big....
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Perform action based on directory's existence
I'm writing a shell script in Jenkins pipeline, where if a specific zip file is available, then proceed with further step. If the zip file does not exist (it may be case that directory structure ...
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How to rename nested folders?
So I have a bunch of folders in the format of: .../course/year/... and I often reorganize them so that the format then changes to this: .../year/course/.... I've been meaning to learn how to write ...
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Execute a while loop in bash constructed from variables
I am trying to write a shell script which reads a file line by line, does some operations on each line, and write output to a new file. The file name is passed as an argument. Since the file is ...
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Renaming files by removing delimited substring
I have a lot of folders and subfolders with files with name 1. Introduction--- [ FreeCourseWeb.com ] ---.mp4 I want to rename all files recursively (folders and subfolders) to just 1. Introduction.mp4 ...
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Script with zip command doesn't work with wildcards
I created a bash shell script to zip all files that match a pattern as follows: #!/bin/bash zip $1 $2 When I run the above script using ./myScript.sh myzip test*, only one file that starts with the ...
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Script to add users will add users but they cannot login
I have a script that will add users from a file. It will add the users just fine as far as I can tell, but when trying to login the password supplied by the script does not work. I'm not sure if this ...
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Shell script to Unzip files to folders in destination with same name minus the .zip, also move every none zip to same location
I definitely need to practice my scripting... So far I have the script below which works when one .zip and one flat file are put into the source location. If multiple files are put in it does not ...
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Bash looping through two sets of files
I am trying to write a bash script that can iterate through two folders, and run the files into a python program. The python program takes two input files (corresponding ones from each folder) and ...
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Check if file is an archive; if yes, extract
How can I check if a file is an archive and then extract it with 7z? I understand that I could check it by file command but it won't work in scripts because of its output. I can't predict what type of ...
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Apply command to all files in a directory
I want to apply the following command to all the files in the current directory clustalw -align -infile=*here goes the input filename* -outfile=*here goes the output filename* I also want the output ...
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Running a command with multiple inputs for many files
I need to run a program using 2 files as input expecting 1 output having 6000 files ranging from abc0000.faa/abc0000.fna to abc6000.faa/abc6000.fna. I also need the output file to have the same file ...
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