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1. Shell Programming and Scripting
Background: I use a TV tuner card to capture OTA video files (.mpeg) and then my Plex Media Server automatically optimizes the files (transcodes for better playback) and places them in a new directory. I have another Plex Library pointing to the new location for the optimized .mp4 files. This... (2 Replies)
Discussion started by: shaky
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2. Shell Programming and Scripting
How do you compare one local folder and a remote folder and copy the difference to a third folder in a remote folder.e.g.
Folder A -- Is in a remote server and it has the following files
TEST1.OUT
TEST2.OUT
TEST3.OUT
Folder B --Is in a local server and it has the following files
... (5 Replies)
Discussion started by: cumeh1624
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3. Shell Programming and Scripting
Hello All
A similar question like this was asked before but I need to change part of the question.
I've two folders, Folder A contains some image files in 150 subfolders;
Folder B contains text files in 350 subfolders.
All image files in Folder A have the same filename as the text... (5 Replies)
Discussion started by: chlade
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4. Shell Programming and Scripting
Hi,
I need help in shell scripting. If someone can help me, that would be great!
Problem. I want Linux Script to compare two folders and copy missing files.
Description.
I have two directories
/dir1
/dir2
I need to copy all distinct/new/unique/missing files from /dir1 and that... (1 Reply)
Discussion started by: S.Praveen Kumar
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5. Shell Programming and Scripting
hello,
I'm trying to figure out which tool is best for recursively renaming and files or folders using the characters \/*?”<>| in their name. I've tried many examples that use Bash, Python and Perl, but I'm not much of a programmer I seem to have hit a roadblock.
Does anyone have any... (15 Replies)
Discussion started by: prometheon123
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6. Shell Programming and Scripting
Hi, all:
I'd love to use shell script to change all filenames under different folders once for all:
I've got over 100 folders, in each of them, there is a file named "a.ppm". I wanna change all these "a.ppm" to "b.ppm", and still . Visually, the directory structure looks like:
and hope... (1 Reply)
Discussion started by: jiapei100
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7. Shell Programming and Scripting
Ok question number two: I'd like to search a directory for multiple file types (rar, txt, deb) and depending on what's found, copy those files to folders named Rar, TextFiles, and Debs. I'm looking for speed here so the faster the script the better. I want it to be a function that I pass 1 argument... (4 Replies)
Discussion started by: DC Slick
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8. Shell Programming and Scripting
Hi, all:
I've got two folders, folder A contains some image files (say, 100 files) in .jpg format;
folder B contains all description files (say, 500 files) in .txt format.
All image files in folder A are able to find their corresponding description files in folder B.
That is to say,... (3 Replies)
Discussion started by: jiapei100
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9. Shell Programming and Scripting
i have users home directories in /home
all the users have some files starting with character e
and i want to copy all these files in a folder in my (root) home
using a script
i tried the script
for i in m5
do
cd m5
cp e1* /home/pc/exam
cd ..
done
but get these... (3 Replies)
Discussion started by: pcrana
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10. UNIX for Advanced & Expert Users
Hello all,
I'm trying to accomplish that if a file gets written to folder /path/to/a/ it gets automatically copied into /path/to/b/ the moment its get written.
I thought of writing a shell script and cron it that every X amount of minutes it copies these files over but this will not help me... (2 Replies)
Discussion started by: Bashar
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