I am using exiftool to recursively search across directories containing hundreds of files. At present, it is returning the results to a .csv file. Manually comparing my results, there are some files within the target directory that do not have a valid file extension. Nonetheless, when examining the raw data (or adding .jpeg as the extension), the files are indeed image files.
Is there any way to force exiftool to process all files regardless of what the file extension is or indeed whether it has a file extension?
Thanks
You will want to use the -ext option.
Add -ext "*" to your command to process all files.
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Is there a way to search for ALL .txt files in a project and automatically replace/rename them to .js?
E.g user.txt to user.js
It seems I can't search for a file format in VS Code.
If you know how, please share!
You could just do it in the terminal.
mv *.txt *.js
You can use a combination of:
Filtering the EXPLORER panel to just show .txt files
See "Filtering the document tree" section of the VS Code docs
See related Stack Overflow post: "Filter files shown in Visual Studio Code"
Installing and using the Batch Rename extension
For example, given these files/folders:
Steps:
Start by clicking on the EXPLORER panel and filtering to just display .txt files
Select/highlight all the files, then right-click on any selected file, then select "Batch Rename"
That would open a text file ".Batch Rename.txt" with all the selected files
Do a regular find-and-replace to change .txt to .js
Note that the ".Batch Rename.txt" is unsaved. It's like a preview of what the changes would look like
Save ".Batch Rename.txt" and it will automatically close
The EXPLORER panel should now be empty since it's filtered on .txt
Remove the filter and the files should now be renamed
You can use find to do this in a terminal recursively.
find . -iname "*.txt" -exec rename .txt .js '{}' \;
refer Find multiple files and rename them in Linux
mv works if you want to just do it in a folder itself.
Old question, I know, but for you or anyone else coming in, if you're okay with using a non-VS Code solution, there's a GUI Windows tool called RegexRenamer that is so well-named, you already know what it does.
It gives you a preview of what the renamed files will look like, and has options to rename everything in subfolders or only the current folder, ignore/include file extensions in the search, and apply the rename only to folders/files or both.
What do you think?
I need to create a script (or command line) that will utilise 7-zip and archive all files dated a specific month-date. e.g. compress and archive all files in a specified directory that are date modified xx-may-2018 and create the archive in another specified directory.
There are plenty of scripts around for archiving but none that allow you to specify month-year.
Any help much appreciated.
Have a wget download I'm trying to perform.
It downloads several thousand files, unless I start to restrict the file type (junk files etc). In theory restricting the file type is fine.
However there are lots of files that wget downloads without a file extension, that when manually opened with Adobe for example, are actually PDF's. These are actually the files I want.
Restricting the wget to filetype PDF does not download these files.
So far my syntax is wget -r --no-parent A.pdf www.websitehere.com
Using wget -r --no-parent www.websitehere.com brings me every file type, so in theory I have everything. But this means I have 1000's of junk files to remove, and then several hundred of the useful files of unknown file type to rename.
Any ideas on how to wget and save the files with the appropriate file extension?
Alternatively, a way restrict the wget to only files without a file extension, and then a separate batch method to determine the file type and rename appropriately?
Manually testing every file to determine the appropriate application will take a lot of time.
Appreciate any help!
wget has an --adjust-extension option, which will add the correct extensions to HTML and CSS files. Other files (like PDFs) may not work, though. See the complete documentation here.
I have just run Doxygen from the command line and am unsure where it put it...
It doesn't show up in the directory I ran it from
Is there an easy way to find it?
From the Doxygen manual:
The default output directory is the directory in which doxygen is started. The root directory to which the output is written can be changed using the OUTPUT_DIRECTORY. The format specific directory within the output directory can be selected using the HTML_OUTPUT, RTF_OUTPUT, LATEX_OUTPUT, XML_OUTPUT, and MAN_OUTPUT tags of the configuration file. If the output directory does not exist, doxygen will try to create it for you (but it will not try to create a whole path recursively, like mkdir -p does).
If you are having some problems getting it to do what you want use doxywizard it makes writing the configuration file much easier.
I'm try to determine how to use the zip cmd line tool to move a file (uncompressed) in to a zip of compressed files (ie I want a zip in the end with all files but one compressed, b/c the one file is another compressed file).
Anyone know how to do this?
It looks like you could use -n option to just store the files with defined extensions together with -g option to append the file to archive.
I didn't test it, but something like this should do the trick:
zip -gn .foo archive.zip myAddedFile.foo
Although documentation states that, by default, zip does not compress files with extensions in the list .Z:.zip:.zoo:.arc:.lzh:.arj, so if you are adding a file with one of those extensions you should be fine.
Documentation to the command is here
-m is what I wanted, moves the file(s) into a zip.