I can find a way to use regex with the rmdir command on Windows. I need to delete any folder that has names as follows:
0855485700
54840287805
15749678
12569
9659432665665
Basically, I need something like rmdir /s /q %USERPROFILE%\AppData\Local\FolderA\SubFolderB\[0-9]*
[0-9]* being a regular expression to match all folders with names starting with numbers.
A little background: folders are created regularly by an application. The folders have random names, but the folder names have something in common: they are always numbers.
I need to schedule a deletion of those folders on Windows, so I'm trying to create a task to run a command every month. But I can't find a way to use a pattern for this. And I can't delete all the folders inside the immediate parent folder. I can only delete the fodlers with numbers as names.
Thanks in advance for any help.
As I couldn't find a way to target all folders with names starting with numbers with a single regular expression, I ended up creating a batch file with a for loop that targets all files starting with 0 or 1 or 2 or 3 or 4 or 5 or 6 or 7 or 8 or 9.
Here's the content of the file:
for /d %%i in (%USERPROFILE%\AppData\Local\Google\DriveFS\0* %USERPROFILE%\AppData\Local\FolderA\SubFolderB\1* %USERPROFILE%\AppData\Local\FolderA\SubFolderB\2* %USERPROFILE%\AppData\Local\FolderA\SubFolderB\3* %USERPROFILE%\AppData\Local\FolderA\SubFolderB\4* %USERPROFILE%\AppData\Local\FolderA\SubFolderB\5* %USERPROFILE%\AppData\Local\FolderA\SubFolderB\6* %USERPROFILE%\AppData\Local\FolderA\SubFolderB\7* %USERPROFILE%\AppData\Local\FolderA\SubFolderB\8* %USERPROFILE%\AppData\Local\FolderA\SubFolderB\9*) do #rmdir "%%i" /q
If anyone can think of a better solution let me know.
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I have multiple pictures of trucks with random messy names and different formats (jpeg, jpg, png etc.) and I want to rename them to "truck1.jpeg", "truck2.jpg", "truck3.png" and so on. How do I do it using the rename command?
It's probably easier to use bash and mv, since AFAIK you need something like bash to generate the number sequence. In bash
i=1
for x in *; do
echo $x '->' truck$i.${x##*.}
mv "$x" truck$i.${x##*.} && i=$((i+1))
done
The for x in * operates on all files whose names do not begin with a dot and are in the current directory. You can adjust the glob to be more exclusive, but this script will need modification if the files are in other directories. Again, probably easier to collect the files in one directory, or maybe put it in a script file and execute it in multiple directories using find ... -exec.
This uses i as a counter to generate the digits. The trick is the ${x##*.} expression which takes the file name and deletes everything up to the final dot. This allows you to preserve and reattach the file extension to the new name. You have to be careful to set i correctly or you will overwrite old truck1 files with new ones.
I am trying to use rsync to complete an unfinished transfer from a remote server to a local machine using
rsync -a user#domain.com:~/source/ /dest/
where /dest/ is the location of the partially completed transfer. However, due to bandwidth concerns I need to run rsync to a /tmp_dest/ on a different machine that does not have a copy of /dest/, from where I can then later move /tmp_dest/ to /dest/
The solution I have come up with thus far is to use rync's --exclude-from option, using a file containing a complete list of files from /dest/.
The command would look something like this
rsync -a --exclude-from 'list.txt' user#domain.com:~/source/ /tmp_dest/
At this point I feel as though I have scoured everywhere for a solution and tried every variant I came across.
This included relative and absolute paths for the 'list.txt'
relative:
path 1/file 1
path 2/file 2
--or--
absolute:
/absolute/source/path 1/file 1
/absolute/source/path 2/file 2
I have tried the above with combinations of including - to explicitly exclude that line (where I have seen examples of people wanting to also + other files)
- /absolute/source/path 1/file 1
- /absolute/source/path 2/file 2
I have tried putting leading **/ in front of the file paths to rectify the relative path problem
**/path 1/file 1
**/path 2/file 2
I have also tried navigating to the directory containing 'list' and executing rsync from there, to avoid the issue where rsync looks for
/path/to/the/list/something1/to.exclude
/path/to/the/list/something2/to.exclude
/path/to/the/list/something3/to.exclude
and undoubtedly finding nothing
I have also ensued that the correct line breaks are being used in the 'list' file. i.e. LF (Unix) line breaks.
I have tried to create the 'list' with the following command
find . -type f | tee list.txt
this initially created a file looking something like this
./yyyy-mm-dd folder 1/sub folder [foo]/file.a
./(yyyy) folder 2 {foo2}/file.b
./folder, 3/sub-folder 3/file.c
as you can see, there are spaces and other characters in the file paths, but from my current understanding, this shouldn't affect. But perhaps I am mistaken and will need to escape any characters with special meaning, which I may then need help with
which I then perform a replace on ./ in notepad++ or some other text editor that preserves the LF (Unix) line breaks to get the desired result.
(e.g. as above, I've tried replacing ./ with nothing, with /absolute/path/for/source/ noting the leading slash, or even double wildcards to match any parent tree structure containing the files.
The only thing I feel that I haven't tried is escaping the spaces in the file names and paths, but I have read that this shouldn't be an issue.
Perhaps I am overlooking something and any help would be appreciated.
Here is from rsync man page how to use "--exclude-from":
--exclude-from=FILE read exclude patterns from FILE
Use the following command:
rsync -a --exclude-from=list.txt user#domain.com:~/source/ /tmp_dest/
And also it is better to use full path name of list.txt file
I have a bunch of files which are of this format:
blabla.log.YYYY.MM.DD
Where YYYY.MM.DD is something like (2016.01.18)
I have quite a few folders with about 1000 files in each, so I wanted to have a simple script to rename them. I want to rename them to
blabla.log
So basically, I'm just stripping the date at the end. Here is what I have:
for f in [a-zA-Z]*.log.[0-9][0-9][0-9][0-9].[0-9][0-9].[0-9][0-9]; do
mv -v $f ${f#[0-9][0-9][0-9][0-9].[0-9][0-9].[0-9][0-9]};
done
This script outputs this:
mv: `blabla.log.2016.01.18' and `blabla.log.2016.01.18' are the same file
For more information:
I'm on windows, but I run this script in gitbash
For some reason, my gitbash doesn't recognize the "rename" command
Some regex patterns (like [0-9]{4} don't seem to work)
I'm really at a lost. Thanks.
EDIT: I need to rename every single file that has a date at the end and that is of the from: *.log.2016.01.18. They all need to keep their original names. All that should change is the removal of the date.
You have to use % instead of #: you want to remove from the end, not the start of your string.
Also, you're missing a . in what has to be removed, you don't want to end up with blabla.log..
Quoting the variable names prevents surprises when file names contain special characters.
Together:
mv -v "$f" "${f%.[0-9][0-9][0-9][0-9].[0-9][0-9].[0-9][0-9]}"
I have a bunch of folders in the same directory
2012-12-06 Camcorder_5th_Jan_2013
2012-12-07 Camcorder_5th_Jan_2013
2012-12-16 Camcorder_5th_Jan_2013
...
I wish to drop the Camcorder_5th_Jan_2013 part and for them to look like:
2012-12-06
2012-12-07
2012-12-16
...
I was thinking something like
> mv (*).Camcorder* 1
i.e. capture everything before Camcorder and put into group 1 and rename to this group.
But I am struggling.
Any tips?
Thanks
replace match \s.+ with empty string
I suggest using rename, I am currently not in front of my Linux machine but hopefully these two links can get you somewhere:
Howto: Linux Rename Multiple Files At a Shell Prompt
http://www.cyberciti.biz/tips/renaming-multiple-files-at-a-shell-prompt.html
linux batch rename directories and strip # character from name
Update:
If you have access to Gnome or the X-Environment maybe you could try something like this if the Bash syntax is giving you a headache.
Métamorphose : A File -n- Folder Renamer:
http://file-folder-ren.sourceforge.net
I have a folder with several hundreds of folders inside it. These folders contain another folder each, called images, and in this folder there is sometimes a strictly numerically named .jpg file. Sometimes there are other JPG files in the folder as well, but these need to be ignored if they aren't strictly numeric.
I would like to learn how to write a script which would, when run in a given folder, traverse every single subfolder and look for this numeric file. It would then add the "_n" suffix to a copy of each, if such a file does not already exist.
Can this be done through the unix terminal easily?
To be more specific, this is the structure I'm dealing with:
master folder
18556
images
2234.jpg
47772
images
2234.jpg
2234_n.jpg
some_pic.jpg
77377
images
88723
images
22.jpg
some_pic.jpg
After the script is run, the situation would look like this:
master folder
18556
images
2234.jpg
2234_n.jpg
47772
images
2234.jpg
2234_n.jpg
some_pic.jpg
77377
images
88723
images
22.jpg
22_n.jpg
some_pic.jpg
Update: Sorry about the typo, I accidentally put 2235 into 47772.
Update 2: Regarding the 2nd comment on the mathematical.coffee's answer, the OS I am currently on (at work) is MacOS, but my main machines are running CentOS and Ubuntu at home, so I just assumed my situation applies to all unix based systems.
You can use the -regex switch to find to match /somefolder/images/numeric.jpg:
find -type f -regex './[^/]+/images/[0-9]+\.jpg$'
Edit: refinement from #JonathanLeffler: add -type f to find so it only finds files (ie don't match a directory called '12345.jpg').
The ./[^/]+/ is for the first folder (if that first folder is always numeric too you can change it to [0-9]+).
The [0-9]+\.jpg$ means a jpg file with file name only being numeric.
You might want to change the jpg to jpe?g to allow .jpeg, but that's up to you.
Then it's a matter of copying these to xxx_n.jpg.
for f in $(find -type f -regex './[^/]+/images/[0-9]+\.jpg$')
do
# replace '.jpg' in $f (filename) with '_n.jpg'
newf=${f/\.jpg/_n\.jpg}
# see if this new file exists
if [ ! -f $newf ];
then
# if not exists, copy it.
cp "$f" "$newf"
fi
done
What should be the logic behind the renames in Folder 47772? If we assume you want to rename all the files just consisting of numbers to numbers + _n
With mmv you could write it like:
mmv "[0-9][0-9]*.jpg" "#1#2#3_n.jpg"
Note: mmv is for moving; mcp is for copying, and so is more appropriate to this question.
Question of Vader:
Well I checked the man page and the problem is that it's a bit strange.
I was thinking [0-9]* would match zero or more numbers. I turns out that this assumption was wrong.
The problem is that I could not tell I want two or more numbers at the start of the name.
So [0-9][0-9]* matches a name starting with at least two numbers (after that it takes all the rest up to the .. Now every [0-9] is one pattern and so I had to make the to pattern into:
"#1#2#3_n.jpg" With e.g 1234.jpg I have #1 = 1; #2 = 2, #3 = 34 So
#1#2#3 -> 1234; _n appends the _n and .jpg the extension
However it would rename also files with 12some_other_stuff.jpg sot 12some_other_stuff_n.jpg. It's not ideal but achieves in this context what was intended.