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I have a folder on my desktop that has around 2500 folders in it, each folder has multiple files in them that are zipped, I can unzip them by manually clicking on them, is there a way to do this automatically through terminal?
find ./ -name \*.zip -exec unzip {} \; maybe?
you can try the unzip command, but i think it only works with zip/tar files.
http://www.lifewithtech.net/apple/tip-unzip-multiple-files-into-a-single-directory-in-mac-osx/
http://magma.maths.usyd.edu.au/magma/faq/extract
or if you have the app The Unarchiver:
you can use the open command.
cd to your folder and use:
$ open */*.rar
this should extract all rar files in all sub-folders, according to your Unarchiver setup into a new folder or in the same folder.
Hope this helps.
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So I have a directory of thousands of tar balls in Unix. I want to iterate over all those tar balls and extract a specific file (uniquely appended with .vcf.gz), out of each tar ball and move it to a different directory?
I can't figure out how to do this effectively. Please help.
Loop through the tar files in the directory and then perform the tar command on each file.
for i in *tar.gz;
do
tar -xvf "$i" -C "/path/to/new/folder" "*.vcf.gz"; # Use -C to switch directory before extract and put extension to search for in tar file in quotes.
done
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I have a document library where all of my files are in folder based on category name but then they are also all in subfolders called 'pdf' as well. Is there a way in bash to scan through all of the directories in the library and move all files in folders named pdf to their parent directory?
This can be done with a find command.
Assuming you have no other folders named pdf, you could run something like this:
cd path_to_library
find . -type d -name pdf -exec bash -c 'cd {}; mv * ..' ';'
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There is a folder named X located within a number of subfolders of root directory Y. I want to delete all folders named X that are present in Y and all of it's subfolders. I want to do this using osx Terminal.
The folder can be located anywhere downstream of Y at any level, so I want to use a more systematic approach than just using rm -r for every locations I find.
"cd" to root of directory Y
then (assuming the folder name is "X", type in):
"find . -name X -exec rm -rf {} \;" (and be incredibly careful about where you start this "find" from... you only want to do this within your Y directory).
I do this kind of thing all the time to remove old/busted repository directories (like ".svn"), which I suspect is what you may also be doing as well.
And now would probably be a smart time for me to remind you that "Time Machine" is a great thing to have enabled on your Macintosh.
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I am trying to use 7z to zip a directory so I do
C:/7z a -tzip mydirectory/testing.zip mydirectory/testing -o* -r
The problem the outputted zip file has for the content the entire directory structure path
mydirectory/testing/....
But I want the files under testing to be zipped and not have any paths above reflected in it.
Change the directory to mydirectory/testing first and use * to get all the files.
cd mydirectory\testing
C:\7z.exe a -tzip ../testing.zip * -r
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I have a small shell script that starts a program when I double-click it. (I have set the permissions to allow executing the script).
I want to be able to copy that script to another computer so that the new user can double-click it without needing to know anything about chmod or permissions. But I can't find out how to preserve the execute permission when I copy the file.
I can usually find answers with Google but this has me defeated - I guess I am not expressing my question properly.
Thanks
Use rsync or tar.
rsync -p file user#host:destdir
plus other options you might need.
Or
tar cvzf file.tar file
then copy (or email, etc.) file.tar to the other machine and extract the file:
tar xpvzf file.tar