I am trying to write a script that loops through all the folders within a given folder.
My intention is to access each folder and rename each file ending with fna.gz with the name of the folder it resides in.
I'm going to take this step by step because first of all at this point if I print "f" it prints the whole pwd including the folders i.e. p/w/d/folder1. Instead of printing just folder1. So firstly how can I get it to print just folder1?
If you remove the full path from the for loop, what does it give you?
Hello I am trying to write a script. This is the thing, I want to loop through all folders in a certain folder and send all files in these folders to a java program. The files are somewhere in the neighbourhood of 170.000.
the setup is (hope you get the picture):
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I have a folder that contains a few sub-folders. I would like to zip that folder and KEEP the subfolders. What it does at the moment is taking all the files within the subfolders and zipping them into one big file (zip -r ...). Does anyone know the UNIX command to keep the subfolders in the... (3 Replies)
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I have a sub directory with a number of files and folders. What i want is a subdirectory with just folders and not files for cleanliness sake. So I want to move the files into the new folder but keep the folders in the same place. Move all files (but not folders) to new folder.
I am... (4 Replies)
I am using this command to remove all files and folders older than 24 hours;
find /databackup/dbs/* -maxdepth 0 -type d -mtime +0 -exec rm -rf {} \;
However, if/when backups to this folder fail and are not updated, it will completely destroy any backups we have in that folder.
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I'm really new at this but have several hundred files that i need to do something with and save with a new name. The files are 26 columns wide. I want to select some for renaming. I've figured out what to do to each file ("file-1.CSV"| grep -v "=" | cut -f 1-4,9,14,15,18,19,20,21,22,24,26... (2 Replies)
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I need a solution for the following scenario.
I am the owner for the particular folder and I have given 777 permissions for some specific reasons. So others can able to create folders and files.
But when I am done with the work, I need to delete the folders which are created by... (4 Replies)
Hi I've been trying to find an answer to this question and was hoping someone would be able to help me.
I want to add a sub-folder to to an existing structure: for example
/toys/toy_1/new
/toys/toy_2/new
/toys/toy_3/new
There are humdreds of theses folders - what i want to do is add a... (2 Replies)
I recently bought Synology server and realised it can run scripts. I would need fairly simple script which moves all files and folders from ARCHIVE folder to WORKING folder. I would also need to maintain folder structure as each of the folders may contain subfolders. How would I go about it as I am... (1 Reply)