rsync: colon in file names
Other than by renaming the files first, how can I rsync files that may have colons in their names?
filenames
Is it possible to fake a specific path for a process?
I’m trying to run ADB on a linux server with multiple users where I am not root (to play with my android emulator). The adb daemon writes its logs to the file /tmp/adb.log which unfortunately seems to be hard-coded into ADB and this situation is not going to change.
How to exclude some files from filename expansion mechanism in bash?
I have ubuntu file system directories in the root directory and I accidentally copied hundreds of files into root directory.
cat files with directory
Is there a command to show the directory/file name when cat files?
passing filename with spaces to a shell script
The shellscript is very simple: retroarch $* -c /tmp/retroarch/Data/retroarch/gambatte.cfg (“retroarch” is another shellscript) If the filename passed contains spaces it fails: RetroArch [ERROR] :: Could not read ROM file. Answers: Thank you for visiting the Q&A section on Magenaut. Please note that all the answers may not help you solve the issue immediately. So please … Read more
How can I find a file whose name includes a given string, such as “abcde”?
Within a set of directories, how do I find a file whose name includes a given string, such as “abcde”?
How to find missing files with sequential names?
I have thousands of files named 1.txt 2.txt and so on. Some of those files are missing. Which would be the easiest way to find out which files are missing? Answers: Thank you for visiting the Q&A section on Magenaut. Please note that all the answers may not help you solve the issue immediately. So … Read more
File extensions for unix shell scripts
For the .sh file extension type, see Bourne shell.
What characters need to be escaped in files without quotes?
I have browser-based shell/terminal that executes bash commands and I’m escaping spaces but it turns out that parenthesis also need to be escaped. What other characters need to be escaped for file names that are not in quotes?
Autocomplete of filename in directory
This question is quite similar to this one, but I can’t understand the solution. I also know this tutorial, but still I am unable to understand what I am doing wrong.