i have hundreds of directories that have to be renamed. the directory structure is fairly uniform which makes the scripting a little simpler.
suppose i have many directories like this */*/*/*abc* (in other words i have similar directory names 3 dirs deep that all contain the pattern abc in... (8 Replies)
hi! i need a command to recursivly search all html files below the current directory for the string "ABCDE". that´s very important to me, thanx!!! (3 Replies)
Hello guys,
I was looking for a shell script that removes all the special characters from the files and the subdirectories recursively. I could not locate it any more. Dose any body have a similar script that dose that?
Thanks for the help.
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I have this directory tree under /apps/myapp/data:
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How to recursively rename ONLY directories with 5 digits (00000, 00100, 00200,..., 00007, 00107,...)?
I want to add to their name two more zeros:
Before: 00107
After: 0000107
Thanks in... (2 Replies)
I can rename a file with sequential numbers from 1 to N with this script:
num=1
for file in *.dat;do
mv "$file" "$(printf "%u" $num).txt"
let num=num+1
done
The script begins with renaming a some.dat file to 1.dat.txt and goes on sequentially renaming other DAT files to... (1 Reply)
Hello
Im trying to make a script in bash shell programming to find subdirectories with the same name into the same directory and rename one of them!!
Could you please help me?
Thanks in advance (1 Reply)
I am trying to create a script that will search for a directory named bob, and then rename that directory to peter. I do not want the directory path to change.
so /folders/bob
would become /folders/peter
It seems to be renaming the bob folder to peter correctly, but the peter folder ends... (2 Replies)
Hi all,
I have more than 12000 files in 46 different directories and each directory has 2 sub-directories named “dat” or “gridded”. Dat sub-directories have files with extension “jpg.dat” and gridded sub-directories have files with extension “.jpg”.
I need to... (1 Reply)
HI guys here's hoping some on pout the can help
I have a large library of epub and mobi file creates some what by calibre.
Output of tree listing below
I would like to recursively rename the directories removing the brackets and numbers
I have been scratching my head over... (4 Replies)
Hi,
Friends, i have a requirement where i need to rename my files residing in multiple sub directories and move them to one different directory along with some kind of directory indicator.
For eg:
test--is my parent directory and it has many files such as
a1.txt
a2.txt
a3.txt
... (5 Replies)
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plutil
PLUTIL(1) BSD General Commands Manual PLUTIL(1)NAME
plutil -- property list utility
SYNOPSIS
plutil [command_option] [other_options] file
...
DESCRIPTION
plutil can be used to check the syntax of property list files, or convert a plist file from one format to another. Specifying - as an input
file reads from stdin.
The first argument indicates the operation to perform, one of:
-help Show the usage information for the command and exit.
-p Print the property list in a human-readable fashion. The output format is not stable and not designed for machine parsing. The
purpose of this command is to be able to easily read the contents of a plist file, no matter what format it is in.
-lint Check the named property list files for syntax errors. This is the default command option if none is specified.
-convert fmt Convert the named file to the indicated format and write back to the file system. If the file can't be loaded due to invalid
syntax, the operation fails.
fmt is one of: xml1, for version 1 of the XML plist format binary1, for version 1 of the binary plist format json, for the
JSON format
There are a few additional options:
-- Specifies that all further arguments are file names
-s Don't print anything on success.
-r For JSON, add whitespace and indentation to make the output more human-readable.
-o path Specify an alternate path name for the result of the -convert operation; this option is only useful with a single file to be
converted. Specifying - as the path outputs to stdout.
-e extension Specify an alternate extension for converted files, and the output file names are otherwise the same.
DIAGNOSTICS
The plutil command exits 0 on success, and 1 on failure.
SEE ALSO plist(5)STANDARDS
The plutil command obeys no one's rules but its own.
HISTORY
The plutil command first appeared in Mac OS X 10.2.
Mac OS X August 30, 2002 Mac OS X