How to count recursively for the number of files in several directories?
I have a directory, containing a lot of files and directories.
files
How to set metadata for music files?
In windows music files have metadata like artist name, album name associated with them. How is this metadata stored. Is it stored in file system like other file attributes or is it part of MP3 data that Windows Explorer extracts using a MP3 reader plugin?
What’s the quickest way to find duplicated files?
Searches the given path for duplicate files. Such files are found by comparing file sizes and MD5 signatures, followed by a byte-by-byte comparison.
Cleaner way to delete files on Linux which include a datestamp as part of file name
I have a new requirement to purge MySQL dump files that are older than 30 days. The files use a naming convention of “all-mysql-YYYYMMDD-HHMM.dump”. The files are located on SAN mounted file system, so restoration is not an issue, but the drive space is limited unfortunately and fills up quickly so it requires frequent human intervention.
Is it possible to reference the most recently modified file in a command line argument?
I frequently download PDF files with heinous numeric file names from my browser. These automatically go into ~/Downloads. Ideally I would like to just be able to open these files with:
last time file opened
Is it possible to get the time when file was opened last time and sort all files in a directory by those times?
Find the total size of certain files within a directory branch
Assume there’s an image storage directory, say, ./photos/john_doe, within which there are multiple subdirectories, where many certain files reside (say, *.jpg). How can I calculate a summary size of those files below the john_doe branch?
What does the ‘d’ mean in ls -al results and what is that slot called?
In Linux, what does the d mean in the first position of drwxr-xr-x? And what are all of the possible letters that could be there, and what do they mean? I’m trying to learn more about the Linux file permissions system, and I’d like to see a list of the character meanings for the first … Read more
Determining the number of files and subdirectories in Linux
When displaying directories in Linux using ls -ld, I get something like this:
/proc/config.gz is of 0 bytes
I have an Android TV stck
I compiled Linux for IT from https://github.com/Galland/rk3x_kernel_3.0.36