I used to use a sort command when trying to view all files across a bunch of folders at once. It makes sorting files easier. I do know part of the command was written as not sort kind, however I am unable to remember which parts need to be capitalised, and where the colon (:) goes. I have trying googling the answer, and even gone through hours of YouTube videos trying to find the answer. I would prefer not to use the asterisk (*) command or the DIR command Screenshot showing one of many attempted iterationsas that is not suitable for my use. Thank you.
I have since been alerted on StackExchange that the answer to the issue I was having is kind:NOT Folder.
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I've searched all over and seen many similar questions but nothing I was able to tweak and make work for my situation.
I have files in a folder like this
C:\music\unknown-folder-name\*.*
And I want to move all of them to
C:\music\unknown-folder-name\disc1
This seems so simple but I can't figure it out. I'm happy to use PowerShell or regular command line or a batch file or whatever works. Thanks for your help.
I have no prior experience working with batch files or shell scripting in general. I need to understand the operations being carried out by a batch file used in a related project. Any resource that gives exhaustive list of batch file commands and what each one does?
Once you get acquainted with the general .BAT file information, using some of the pointers to useful information that other users have posted in the other answers, you might try some of the following strategies that help you understand and analyze the BAT files used int your projects:
add an ECHO command in front of all command invocations
read HELP command for each command line in the BAT file
execute at the command prompt each command line in the BAT file
remove the #echo off at the top of the .BAT file, and see how the BAT progresses
add some PAUSEs to keep viewing some commands on screen before they disappear.
There are some useful answers here in this Stack Overflow question: Best free resource for learning advanced batch-file usage?
As well there are quite a few resources available through google search for Batch file resources, as well as the Wikipedia entry http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Batch_files
That should get you started at least.
A little search on google should give a lot of tutorials and websites with information on writing them for both Windows and Linux.
Maybe you should start from the beginning though.
http://ss64.com/nt/
http://academic.evergreen.edu/projects/biophysics/technotes/program/batch.htm
http://www.robvanderwoude.com/batchcommands.php
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_MS-DOS_commands
They're just a few examples i found with a little google search. You should search it and find something thats better for you.
Hope this helps.
Sorry about the dummy question here.
Under Windows I would like to be able to filter one .txt file into a new one. Filtering all lines that contain a specific string.
I know this could well be a really easy one, but would really appreciate a few pointers please.
Use the findstr command:
findstr my-string filename > new-file
findstr /? will give you a usage message telling you how to use findstr (including the /V switch if you wanted to filter lines out rather than filtering them in.)
Or if you're familiar with grep and wishing you had it on Windows, install Cygwin. :-)
Powershell has some neat string comparison features. You can pipe the output to a new file.
^^ There are some better links as to how to use Powershell - but I can't find them this minute. If you go the Powershell route there are lots of examples on the internet.
Visual Studio Add On Text Power Tools contains a very powerful filter feature.
The one issue is the Visual Studio add-ons have a file size limit (this may be resolved by the time you read this). Visual Studio may open a large file that is not the issue, the issue is add-ons are restricted to a file size limit.
There's a logfile filtering utility Logfilter (www.casstor.com), that can easily do this. You can define multiple filter strings as well as use regular expressions in your filters. I think it might be what you're looking for.
I have a huge file with all the commands I use on and off the commandline. This file is getting harder to open and navigate as its size gets larger. I am looking for a commandline utility that makes this process easier. I found this gem, which does something similar to what I want, but it's terrible with long lines of code with multiple quotation marks.
What does everyone use to keep your code snippets and easily access it from your terminal?
I keep a similar file myself. This example isn't directly useful with your file. However when I find that I need to run a particular command I recently used, without looking it up again, I run a grep on history.
For example:
history | grep "svn co"
You may try Komandi, a multiplatform command snippets manager.
I'm going through a lot of computers and a lot of data here and there.
I'm moving it all to a server so everybody has access to it.
There i have a folder for each computer. But a lot of the data is the same.
Is there any program to help me combine the data that is the same ?
It hell trying to do this manually.
Basically i want to tell this program, hey check this folder here C:/test and if there are any files that are duplicated, delete one of them.
If you need a tool for manual comparison of large directory structures, try Beyond Compare.
If you want automatic comparison scripts, Cygwin diff is good, possibly embedded in a shell script.