Hello All. I am trying to do this from a terminal prompt on my mac....
I have 100 folders all named different things. Those 100 folders are inside ~/Desktop/Pictures directory.
Each of the 100 folders are uniquely named. The image files inside of each folder only have some similarities.
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Can we count number of folders of specific date in a directory, even if directory has folders of different dates.
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I have a requirement to delete the files and folders under a given directory.
my directory structure is like this..
Data
|
A(Directory)
|_PDF(Directory)----pdf files
|_XML()Directory --xml files
|--files
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B(Directory)
|_PDF(Directory)----pdf files
|_XML()Directory --xml files ... (1 Reply)
I need help.
I have to delete multiple directories inside a directory that are two weeks old.
Example: Today is July 09, 2012
Folder1 > folder1 (created June 4, 2012) -- should be deleted
> folder2 (created June 2, 2012) -- should be deleted
> folder3 (created... (4 Replies)
How to copy files from one directory to another directory with the subfolders copied.
If i have folder1/sub1/sub2/* it needs to copy files to folder2/sub1/sub2/*.
I do not want to create sub folders in folder2.
Can copy command create them automatically?
I tried cp -a and cp -R but did... (4 Replies)
I need a hint for reading manpage (I did rtfm really) of cpio to do this task as in the headline described. I want to put all files of a certain type, lets say all *.txt files or any other format. Spread in more than hundreds of subdirectories in one directory I would like to select them and just... (3 Replies)
Hello all,
I'm fairly new to scripting so please bear with me. I will try to explain as best as I can but if there's anything that is not clear, please let me know.
I have a directory (see below) with numerous folders and within each of those folders are various files. I would like to run a... (11 Replies)
I am trying to move specific folders and subfolders within a directory using the below. I can see the folders to move and they are at the location, but I am getting an error. Thank you :).
mv -v /home/cmccabe/Desktop/NGS/API/6-10-2016{bam/{validation,coverage},bedtools /media/cmccabe/"My... (6 Replies)
The below bash is trying to list the folders in a specific directory. It seems close but adds the path to the filename, which basename could strip off I think, but not sure why it writes the text file created? This list of folders in the directory will be used later, but needs to only be the... (5 Replies)
Hi Folks -
Happy Friday and I hope you all are well!
What's the easiest way to tar.gz / zip all direct children directories in a folder that have the string _EBASE (suffix)?
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Discussion started by: SIMMS7400
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LEARN ABOUT SUSE
basename
BASENAME(1) User Commands BASENAME(1)NAME
basename - strip directory and suffix from filenames
SYNOPSIS
basename NAME [SUFFIX]
basename OPTION
DESCRIPTION
Print NAME with any leading directory components removed. If specified, also remove a trailing SUFFIX.
--help display this help and exit
--version
output version information and exit
EXAMPLES
basename /usr/bin/sort
Output "sort".
basename include/stdio.h .h
Output "stdio".
AUTHOR
Written by David MacKenzie.
REPORTING BUGS
Report basename bugs to bug-coreutils@gnu.org
GNU coreutils home page: <http://www.gnu.org/software/coreutils/>
General help using GNU software: <http://www.gnu.org/gethelp/>
COPYRIGHT
Copyright (C) 2009 Free Software Foundation, Inc. License GPLv3+: GNU GPL version 3 or later <http://gnu.org/licenses/gpl.html>.
This is free software: you are free to change and redistribute it. There is NO WARRANTY, to the extent permitted by law.
SEE ALSO dirname(1), readlink(1)
The full documentation for basename is maintained as a Texinfo manual. If the info and basename programs are properly installed at your
site, the command
info coreutils 'basename invocation'
should give you access to the complete manual.
GNU coreutils 7.1 July 2010 BASENAME(1)