How to move all files in a directory and subdirectory?
I'm trying to organize my MB Pro by moving all my jpeg files to a single folder from the desktop. There are some on the desktop that are not in any folder. I was at the command line and typed
but it only moved the files that were on the desktop, not any of the ones that were in any subdirectories. I'm forgetting something here -- can someone tell me how to get all the jpeg files (or any other files of a type, for that matter) -- no matter which subdirectory they're in -- and move them to the designated folder I want?
Last edited by Franklin52; 07-04-2011 at 04:04 AM..
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I am writing a script which reads a file line by line and then assigns it to a variable like this 1090373422_4028715212.jpg. I have images with file name of this format in some other directory. In my script I want to assign variable with this file name and then find this filename in some other... (11 Replies)
Hi Everyone!
Looking for some help with a script that will take all files in any given root folder (which are not already in a folder) and put them into separate folders with the name of each given file.
Any ideas?
Thank you! (1 Reply)
Display the number of files in a directory and recursively in each subdirectory
To look something like below, for example
/var 35
/var/tmp 56
/var/adm 46
Any ideas how can we do this? :wall: (1 Reply)
Display the number of files in a directory and recursively in each subdirectory
To look something like below, for example
/var 35
/var/tmp 56
/var/adm 46Any ideas how can we do this?
Got a sun cluser global mount point which takes ages to mount everytime, need to understand... (5 Replies)
accidentally i have changed ownership of a directory,subdirectory and files wil below command. I want to the change ownership back as same as in same directory on another server. How can i do it?
chown -R user:group /u01
is there any simple script? it is really an urgent need.. (2 Replies)
I want to list files that end with .c in the direct subdirectory of the current directory. I have tried the following command:
find ./ -mindepth 2 -maxdepth 2 -name "*.c"
Is that right? Or is there any easier way to handle that problem?
Another problem is that I want to grep in a file to find... (5 Replies)
I used rm * and it deleted the files in the directory but gives and error message for unsuccessful subdirectory deletion.
"rm: cannot remove 'DirectoryName': Is a directory"
I dont want to explicitly get the above error.
What are the modifications I have to do in the rm command? (3 Replies)
Hi,
How can i traverse to the last subfolder in all the directories.
eg:
i have the below folders structure
f1/sf1/r1
f2/sf2/r2
f3/sf3/r3/r4
i need to move to the last directory in each directory.
Can anyone tell me a solution for this?
I saw an example that does that.
find . -type... (2 Replies)
Hi all,
i have a folder, with tons of files containing as following,
on /my/folder/jobs/
some_name_2016-01-17-22-38-58_some name_0_0.zip.done
some_name_2016-01-17-22-40-30_some name_0_0.zip.done
some_name_2016-01-17-22-48-50_some name_0_0.zip.done
and these can be lots of similar files,... (6 Replies)
Hi All,
Daily i am doing the house keeping in one of my server and manually moving the files which were older than 90 days and moving to destination folder.
using the find command . Could you please assist me how to put the automation using the shell script .
... (11 Replies)
Discussion started by: venkat918
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LEARN ABOUT DEBIAN
update-desktop-database
UPDATE-DESKTOP-DATABASE(1) General Commands Manual UPDATE-DESKTOP-DATABASE(1)NAME
update-desktop-database - Build cache database of MIME types handled by desktop files
SYNOPSIS
update-desktop-database [-q|--quiet] [-v|--verbose] [DIRECTORY...]
DESCRIPTION
The update-desktop-database program is a tool to build a cache database of the MIME types handled by desktop files.
The cache database contains the list of MIME types that can be handled by desktop files, as well as, for each MIME type, a list of desktop
files that can handle this MIME type. This cache database ease the work of applications that need to find an application that can open a
document of a specific MIME type: those applications will not have to parse all the desktop files existing on the system, and can instead
parse this cache database.
If no DIRECTORY is specified as argument, the desktop files that will be processed are the ones installed in $XDG_DATA_DIRS/applications.
If both the --quiet and --verbose options are used, then --verbose will be ignored.
OPTIONS
The following options are supported:
-q, --quiet
Do not display any information about processing and updating progress.
-v, --verbose
Display more information about processing and updating progress.
NOTES
If an invalid MIME type is met, it will be ignored and the creation of the cache database will continue.
The format of the cache database is a simple desktop entry format, with a MIME Cache group, containing one key per MIME type. The key name
is the MIME type, and the key value is the list of desktop file that can handle this MIME type.
The order of the desktop files found for a MIME type is not significant. Therefore, an external mechanism must be used to determine what
is the preferred desktop file for a MIME type.
EXAMPLE
Here is a simple example of a cache database:
[MIME Cache]
application/x-shellscript=gedit.desktop;
text/plain=gedit.desktop;gvim.desktop;
video/webm=totem.desktop;
This cache database is created with three desktop files, each containing a MimeType key:
gedit.desktop: MimeType=text/plain;application/x-shellscript;
gvim.desktop: MimeType=text/plain;
totem.desktop: MimeType=video/webm;
FILES
$XDG_DATA_DIRS/applications/mimeinfo.cache
This file is the cache database created by update-desktop-database.
BUGS
If you find bugs in the update-desktop-database program, please report these on https://bugs.freedesktop.org.
FREEDESKTOP.ORG UPDATE-DESKTOP-DATABASE(1)