Operating on a directory and its subdirectories, recursively.
Use this tag when an important part of your question is to operate on a directory, its subdirectories, its sub-sub-directories, etc., and some or all the files in these directories.
I'm wondering about direction of recursion in general and rm specifically.
rm recursion only works downwards correct?
Running: sudo rm -R *.QTFS will delete all *.QTFS files in current directory and its children, correct?
current directory as…
I want to copy (overwrite) folders from one directory to another set of directories, only if the folders in directory1 exist in directory2.
For example, I have stored some folders in my home directory:
home
|admin
|updates
…
I have a script that will concat and rename the video files in a folder which I have pieced together using tips from StackExchange.
#!/bin/bash
ls -d $PWD/* >> file.txt
sed -i "s/^\|$/'/g" file.txt
sed -i -e 's_.*_file &_' file.txt
ffmpeg -f concat…
The following bash script searches through all directories and tabulates how many files are in each directory.
Sample output testing on my own R installation is below - exactly what I need.
find . -mindepth 6 -type d -print0 | while IFS= read -r -d…
This is my code, something in the rec_copy() function isn't working properly, the extension named folders are created in the destination folder but the files are not copied there.
#!/bin/bash
if [ $# -ne 2 ]
then
echo "Usage: $0 …
Trying to find a Unix script that will recursively look for directories/files that contain in their name " backup ", "back" etc. or more than 6 numbers, so it can find those that have a date. Thank you!
