Delete all files starting with a question mark
I have a folder in which I have around 4k files. Some of these files start with a a ? or ! character. I need to delete them but can’t find an expression that would do so:
wildcards
Shell script to check for the presence of one or more files with a specific extension?
I want to write a script to find a file with specific extension.this much i have done:
How to copy all HTML files from a directory tree to a single directory
I want to copy all the .html files from myDir and its subdirectories to ~/otherDir. Here’s what I tried, but it doesn’t work:
How do I run a command on multiple files
This is pretty basic, I have a folder with several subfolders of JS files and i want to run Google’s Clojure compiler on all of the files in those folders. The command to process a single file is as follows:
History of Bash globbing
Is there a historical reason why Bash “globbing” and regular expressions are not identical? For example, I believe that in Bash [1-2]* matches anything that starts with a 1 or a 2 followed by anything else, while as a regular expression [1-2]* would match only a sequence of 1s and 2s. My Bash scripting and REGEX foo are both pretty weak and I regularly run into problems associated with these differences which made me curious was to why they are different.