Recursive glob?
I’d like to write something like this:
wildcards
How to match case insensitive patterns with ls?
I would like to list all files matching a certain pattern while ignoring the case.
How can I search for a file with fixed name length using ls?
In a directory, I have files like
How to move the first x files
I have this huge folder with thousands of unordered files. Is it feasible to move the first 5000s to a subfolder via the mv command? For now I move files with
List only regular files (but not directories) in current directory
I can use ls -ld */ to list all the directory entries in the current directory. Is there a similarly easy way to just list all the regular files in the current directory? I know I can use find
How to match * with hidden files inside a directory
How to match the hidden files inside the given directories
“mkdir foo; svn mv * foo”
I often want to do some variant of this idiom:
Why is the wild card character * so different between the zip and rm commands?
I put together a script to do some file operations for me. I am using the wild card operator * to apply functions to all files of a type, but there is one thing I don’t get. I can unzip all files in a folder like this
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.
How do I recursively delete directories with wildcard?
I am working through SSH on a WD My Book World Edition. Basically I would like to start at a particular directory level, and recursively remove all sub-directories matching .Apple*. How would I go about that?