Search files through case sensitive extension on the Windows command line. I want the search a list of jpg files in my directory where some files has extension xxx.jpg and some yyy.JPG .
Here I want the list of all files who has extension yyy.JPG
Any help.
Thanks in advance
dir *.jpg|findstr /e /L ".JPG"
shoud deliver that list; only when the end of the lines literally match the string will findstr allow the line through.
command.com doesn't care about case, but the DOS API does pay attention. So, writing a simple DOS program to search the files will allow you to match what you want.
You can also use most other programming languages (even BASIC!) to get a directory, and it will take you literally. You could even get what you want by getting a directory listing from command.com and then piping it through the find command:
dir | find ".JPG"
Since you asked this on Stackoverflow (programmer's site) it's assumed you want to write a program. If not, youll want to try superuser.com instead.
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I started to study CLI on my computer (iMAC) and reached command locate. When I use this command search carried out not in the current directory but everywhere. In addition, this command scans all system and program files but don't scans Downloads or for example in the Music library.
In this regard, I had two questions:
If I don't specify a search directory where exactly will this command search my file (at root directory or somewhere else)?
How to specify search directory for this command (for example, I need to find a file that is only in downloads)?
Try the man page:
http://man7.org/linux/man-pages/man1/locate.1.html
You might also be interested in find:
http://man7.org/linux/man-pages/man1/find.1.html
I use find much more than locate, but the answers to your questions are in the docs.
As it turned out, on my MAC the Downloads folder for the user "everyone" is generally closed and the system files were open for reading! WOW! After changing the rights and updating the database everything worked as it should. Now the question remains: it was only I who had such default rights?
The Problem: You are looking for a Mac cli tool for optimized searching action (search engine indexing) , the locate tool (familiar from unix/linux) is not supported on mac (There's a workaround to enabling it but this is another topic)
Solution: Try mdfind terminal command (which is similiar to locate command in linux).
(From documentation) The mdfind command consults the central metadata store and returns a list of files that match the given metadata query. The query can be a string or a query expression.
Example:
/* input: */
mdfind -name configuration.yml
/* output: */
/Users/someUser/x/y/z/configuration.yml
/Users/someUser/a/b/c/d/e/f/g/h/i/configuration.yml
/System/Library/someApp/someVersion/someDir/configuration.yml
The optional flags are:
-0 Prints an ASCII NUL character after each result path. This is useful when used in conjunction with xargs -0.
-live Causes the mdfind command to provide live-updates to the number of files matching the query. When an update causes the query results to change the number of matches
is updated. The find can be cancelled by typing ctrl-C.
-count Causes the mdfind command to output the total number of matches, instead of the path to the matching items.
-onlyin dir
Limit the scope of the search to the directory specified.
-name fileName
Searches for matching file names only.
-literal Force the provided query string to be taken as a literal query string, without interpretation.
-interpret Force the provided query string to be interpreted as if the user had typed the string into the Spotlight menu. For example, the string "search" would produce the
following query string:
(* = search* cdw || kMDItemTextContent = search* cdw)
I have a project folder in integrity client from which I want to get the entire folder structure. This folder structure should have all the folders and subfolders but no files inside. I don't even know this is possible or not.
I want this to run from command line. Any suggestion from UI perspective is also fine. Thank you.
I don't think this can't be achieved with only one command;
my suggestion is to createa a small script or batch, where you will use the SI VIEWPROJECT --RECURSE command and filter out the lines not ending with ".pj" (subprojects)
Not sure if I'm much too late, but I just stumbled across your question.
You could use the following command (simply type into Windows command line) to inventarize a downloaded sandbox:
$ TREE /F <path to Sandbox>
So in my case it'd be:
$ TREE /F D:\Sandbox\Name
You could even guide the output into a .txt file and postprocess it from there...
$ TREE /F D:\Sandbox\Name > D:\Output.txt
Edit: You would still have to take out all the filenames afterwards in your favourite programming language of choice (just check for the dash characters in front of folders and delete everything else...)
You can use the si viewproject command with filter by name activated to get only subprojects.
si viewproject --hostname={SI_HOST} --port={SI_PORT} --project={Project_Path} --filter=attribute:name=project.pj -R
Depends on your server configuration, the project.pj can be different.
I am trying to get a directory listing of only files with a given extension. At first blush this seems to be a simple thing to do, however check out this simple example:
C:\CODE\metcal>dir /b *.exe
metcal.exe
metcal.exe1
Notice that this returns metcal.**exe** and metcal.**exe1** as matches.
With python files a similar thing happens:
C:\CODE\metcal>dir /b *.py
metcal.py
metcal.pyc
Notice again Windows has determined that *.py takes anything that starts with *.py so it captures the .pyc files as well.
Is there a way to get only the extensions that match exactly? In the above python files example I would like the following to occur (obviously with the correct syntax substituted for *.py)
C:\CODE\metcal>dir /b *.py
metcal.py
As a note the matching under Windows not as simple as it seems.
*.exe matches foo.exe, foo.exe1, foo.exeabcde but not foo.exe.bak
There are other questions on SO that are similar that are related to long/short file names. The *.py and *.pyc example here should not introduce name mangling machinery.
**I have experimented on XP and Win7 machines and this behavior is not consistent at the cmd Prompt and file open dialogs. This inconsistant behavior makes me suspect this problem is related to settings of somekind. **
It's because windows wildcards on extensions check both long and short names as explained in this answer:
https://superuser.com/questions/238900/winxp-dir-command-3-and-4-char-extensions-are-the-same#238930
Solution there is to disable 8.3 names creation and then striping them on ntfs volumes which will also improve performance.
Microsoft Docs: Fsutil 8dot3name
Remarks:
Permanently removing 8dot3 file names and not modifying registry keys that point to the 8dot3 file names may lead to unexpected application failures, including the inability to uninstall an application. It is recommended you first back up your directory or volume before you attempt to remove 8dot3 file names.
So if you want to get only those extensions (.py and .pyc), you should try like this way :
#echo off
dir /b *.py*
pause
You can use the Unix ls command from the Windows Subsystem for Linux to do this, assuming you have WSL installed. It's freely available from Microsoft. From your Windows command prompt, type wsl followed by the ls command to list the files you want.
So, for your example, wsl ls metcal.py returns only metcal.py. To get the same results as you're seeing with dir, use wsl ls metcal.py*.
So, I was hit with the Cryptowall 3.0 ransomware virus. After decryption I am still left with a large amount of DECRYPT_HELP files in .txt, .html, .png and Windows Shortcut formats.
I need a batch script to recursively find the files containing the name "DECRYPT_HELP" regardless of its' extension and move those files into a directory which I will delete.
I am a Linux guy, so I can't FIND and GREP my way through this. Any assistance would be appreciated.
You can find the files using
dir /s *decrypt_help*
dangerous command follows
del /s *decrypt_help*
will delete all of those files. use with extreme caution
I have a couple of flat files(.txt) in a directory.all those files are in the format *.txt.txt so i want to rename it to *.txt ?Is there any simple way to rename all together?
when I tried ren *.txt.txt *.txt is is not working
Any experts please suggest?It is amazing I have not got any answer yet
Please be noted that I need an out of the format filename.txt.
This should work
ren *.txt.txt *.
The reason your command didn't work is because, to windows, the file file.txt.txt is called file.txt with a .txt extension.
Only the last extension is the real extension, the first then becomes part of the filename, hence why your command changes it to what it already is.
If you did ren *.txt.txt *.pdf you would get file.txt.pdf.
My command will just remove the last one, thereby leaving the first, which then becomes the only and real extension.