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Pamu - That gets me about halfway where I want to be. This is definitely more efficient, so thanks!

The goal is to look into each folder with a .7z file. If that folder with the .7z also...

Hello. I am trying to create a script that recursively looks at my folder structure, and extracts any .7z files that have not already been extracted yet. I know that all .7z files only have a...

Yeah, you are absolutely correct, my mistake. I've updated my posts accordingly changing symlinks to hardlinks.

I guess this is why I'm posting in the newbies area :)

Yeah, I've already confirmed they work in my setup. I tested using a simple ln command with no flags, and it works perfectly. I think the reason it works is because my end-device is linux-based.
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Hello. I am working on creating a script to recursively run on my media collection. The goal is to recreate the folder structure, but with slight changes in the folder names based on my rules. The...

Got it. Thanks for the help, it's all working now!

Thanks! I think this is almost what I need. I'm a little confused about what "while read d" does (I'm very much a bash noob who uses Google extensively to program). I'm hoping to add some lines to...

Hello. I am hoping to have an automated way to create Playlist files from Genre txt files I'll be making with my music collection. This is for use with my WD Live player, and is so that certain...

This works perfectly. I know my directories are not named as well as they could be. I'll work on fixing that.




I also got this script working. I had to change the grep "\.jpg$" command to...

I'm still getting the same error. It seems to work, however it fails at a certain point. Is there any way to output what might be going on when it fails?

This is an unRAID system. It's essentially a trimmed down Slackware installation.

Thanks for the prompt replies!




When I try this solution, I get the following error:

xargs: unmatched single quote; by default quotes are special to xargs unless you use the -0 option

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Hello. My latest project has me with the need for the following script. Basically, any directory that includes a .jpg file needs to also have a ".picture" file created (if it doesn't exist). ...

Agama - thanks for the reply. That works!

There are so many different ways to get to the same answer. I'm learning a lot... both these scripts are way more efficient than anything I was...

Thanks for the heads up about basename and dirname commands. Your script is much more streamlined.

When I run your command, I get a bunch of errors:
awk: cmd. line:1: {print $(NF)
awk: cmd....

I am trying to write a script that will allow me to recursively look at my directories, and output all filenames to a txt document. I am almost finished, however I am hitting one last snag. Here is...

Wow, thanks for all the great replies. For now, I think the first reply from DGPickett with the simple sort command will work for me, however I will stash the other examples away for when that will...

I am trying to sort data within a text document by the information at the end of each line. Please see below for an example:


<Profile_0 Name="Random name 0" Description="This is the...

Thanks so much saw7! The sed command is exactly what I'm looking for. Now the next step will be for me to be able to write that type code on my own...

I have an XML file that I am attempting to create a new text document from it with only one of the pieces of data printed. Here's an example:

Source:
<?xml version="1.0"?>
<Reply...