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Since I had a task where I have to copy recursively files of a nested directory for work, i discovered the forfiles-function in windows cmd.
It worked properly and now I wonder how does the function distinguish between a file and a directory?
If every file had a file extension like .jpg .png .xls or something like that, I could understand it, but some of my files came without extensions, but it still did its job.
As I'm used to linux, I tried to google the sourcecode, but windows applications aren't opensource, so if anybody can explain me, how does it work, it would be very interesting to know.
PS: why does this got downvoted? its a general question
The command will eventually call the Windows FindFirstFile/FindNextFile functions. Those return a WIN32_FIND_DATA structure which may contain a FILE_ATTRIBUTE_DIRECTORY flag. If that flag is not set, it's a file.
Internally there is quite a difference between a file and a directory, and it's no surprise that typical file/directory handling commands know about this. The fact that a file doesn't have an extension (or that a directory is called "directory.jpeg") does not cause any confusion within those commands.
If you check forfiles' "man page" (forfiles /?), you might see that the /C switch gives you access to the #isdir variable, which can tell you the difference: are you dealing with a directory (value:TRUE) or a file (value:FALSE)?
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Anyone can explain to me why? From the screen shot, you can see I have some csv file in the current directory. The command: dir .csv or dir ".csv" is not working correctly. However, anything like: dir **.csv, dir ?*.csv, dir .csv are working. All of them can list the files I am looking for. Why?
In case you are unfamiliar with what dxiv is talking about. Aliasing in PowerShell is when you essentially give a command a nickname. In PowerShell there is no such command as dir, it's only an alias for the command Get-ChildItem.
The documentation for that command is here:
https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/powershell/module/microsoft.powershell.management/get-childitem?view=powershell-7.1
If you read through, you'll see that you need to specify a wildcard as a stand-in for the filename before passing the extension.
Generally speaking, the reason you need wildcards for things is to tell the language you're using that there should be something before it. By typing .csv you are searching for files that are literally called '.csv'. No more, no less. The wildcard in *.csv says that it should look for anything ending with '.csv'.
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Wondering if I am overlooking the obvious
I am trying to use
wget -rl 0 -A "*.fna.gz" ftp://ftp.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/genomes/genbank/bacteria/Acinetobacter_nosocomialis/all_assembly_versions
To download all the files in all the directories contained in ftp://ftp.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/genomes/genbank/bacteria/Acinetobacter_nosocomialis/all_assembly_versions/ that match *.fna.gz
If you visit the above link, you will see a list of directories starting with GCA. I want all the files in those directories that match *.fna.gz but I get nothing when I run the command. I'm wondering if wget is not recognizing the GCA* directories as directories, and this is the problem? Or is there something wrong with my wget command?
I am suspicious because when I try to download the directories with FileZilla I get:
GCA_000248315.2_ASM24831v2: Not a regular file
Error: Critical file transfer error
These are not directories but links to somewhere else. There is no information in the file listing which gives the type of the target file, i.e. if directory or plain file or whatever. Thus wget will probably assume plain file and not follow it.
Apparently this isn't working as expected because of a bug on the server which displays symbolic links to directories as ordinary files. Thus as #Steffen Ullrich mentioned, "There is no information in the file listing which gives the type of the target file, i.e. if directory or plain file or whatever. Thus wget will probably assume plain file and not follow it." Thanks to codesquid_ on the FileZilla IRC for the clarification.
Follow up question regarding a work around at https://stackoverflow.com/questions/35307325/recursive-wget-cant-get-files-within-symbolic-link-directories
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I was editing an emacs file abc, and prior to saving, had a crash. There is now a file .#abc, and I would like to find out what is in that file, to perhaps recover what I was working on.
I know the file is there because when I type
ls -a
it lists
.#abc
However, when I type
more ".#abc"
or simply
more .#abc
I get the error
.#abc: No such file or directory
The same error occurs with cp in place of more.
How do I see what is in that file? Why does ls list it and then other commands can't find the file?
(Is .#abc actually an alias file? If so, how would I know that? And how, nevertheless, do I see the content of it, even if this is only what it is an alias to?)
[Note: I do not want to use emacs to try to find out what is in the file or restore it, because the situation is somewhat more complicated than described: the above is all occurring inside a Time Machine backup, which I need to access because of an emacs autosave overwrite problem on the primary file. I don't want to have the same problem occur on the backup of the autosave file!]
This is all on Mac OS10.8.4.
Whereas autosave files use a tilde ~, lock-files use a dot number-sign .#:
http://www.gnu.org/software/emacs/manual/html_node/elisp/File-Locks.html
Creation of lock-files can be disabled with the following setting:
(setq create-lockfiles nil)
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This has to be a very simple question... but as long as i can remember i've seen special keywords or commands in the windows command prompt which are clearly not system commands like dir cd etc
Today i was reminded of this using node.js and from the command prompt I cd'd into a director and typed "npm install".
My question is simple... how does the keyword/command "NPM" get associated with a corresponding exe or other "command handler"? I would think this is very basic but after searching through the internet, its surprisingly hard to find the explanation.
E.g. how could i associate "stack /overflow" with some kind of process/exe that would be able to parse out the "overflow" variable.
A command line interpreter has a number of built-in functions (your examples of "cd", "dir" etc.). For all other input it:
looks in the current folder
looks in the current PATH folders
to see it finds a matching command with an executable file extension, such as ".exe", ".com", and ".bat". The system wide variable PATH holds a list of folders to search in.
If you write a program called "stack", it will typically be called "stack.exe" in full, and be put wherever your programming environment outputs binaries. Then you can
use cd to navigate to that folder and type stack to call it
use the full path specification from any other folder, such as c:\Users\Documents\MyOwnsoftware\Stack\Release\stack
copy stack.exe into one of the folders that is already scanned through the PATH variable
add the folder containing stack.exe to your PATH.
As you can see, these solutions all comply to the look-up order above.
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I'm facing a strange issue, when I executed the following command in a CMD.exe, will get different result in diff WKS. All WKS are windows-xp sp3.
c:\> echo %temp%
one is: C:\DOCUME~1\HWU\LOCALS~1\Temp
the other is: C:\Documents and Settings\HWU\LOCALS~1\Temp
I know, both results are the same position, but the second one will block our some batch file and I cannot modify batch file.
So how can I modify some settings let result looks like the first one?
Would anyone please advise?
Thanks a lot!!!
You need to manually adjust the %TEMP% variable for all user profiles on the host in question.
After you did that, check the value of NtfsDisable8dot3NameCreation in the registry key [HKLM\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Control\FileSystem] on that host. Change it to 0 in case it's set to 1 (requires a reboot). That doesn't fix the exisiting %TEMP% variables (those are static after being created during profile creation), but it will prevent future profiles from being created with non-8.3 paths in the %TEMP% variable.
Still, I'd strongly recommend to get your scripts fixed. It's the solution to the root-cause of the problem.