Remove empty directory trees (removing as many directories as possible but no files)
Suppose I have a dir tree like this:
directory
How can I force unzip / zip not to create a subdirectory when I extract it?
Depending on how a zip file is created, sometimes it will extract all of the files directly, and sometimes it will extract the files into a subdirectory.
What are the advantages of the Unix file system structure
If I install an application in Linux for example Debian/Gnu Linux, the files of the applications are copied to many different directories in the file system.
number of folders in a directory (recursive)
I would like to print the number of folders (recursive, excluding hidden folders) in a given CWD / current directory. What command, or series of commands can I use to ascertain this information?
Bulk remove a large directory on a ZFS without traversing it recursively
I want to remove the contents of a zfs datasets subdir. It’s a large amount of data. For the pool “nas”, the path is /nas/dataset/certainFolder
Write-only permission for a directory doesn’t allow to rename (move) files inside?
In fact, I would like to ask more general question — “what does write permission for a directory allow you to do exactly?” — but let’s approach it with a concrete example.
ls -l –group-directories-first (act on symlinks as well)
ls option --group-directories-first causes directories to be listed on the top, which makes the output of ls nice and clean:
Find files in directory with paired names
I’m running tests of a variable-size-and-contents test set. Data files are added and removed frequently. I’m looking for an automated way of gathering a file list.
How do I delete a folder but not the contents?
My directory (in Linux) looks like com/com/{various,files} where com and com are folders of the same name and the second com holds the various files. I want the first com removed, but the second and files in the second kept.
octal dump of directory
I got a copy of The Unix Programming Environment by Kernighan and Pike from a garage sale. I’m very interested in the chapter about the UNIX filesystem. Naturally, I also found this passage very interesting: