I have an application (Templify) that creates a templatized directory structure, but it seems to not be able to rename the "__NAME__" with what I've identified as the target.
This is fine if I can find a clean way to rename all files & directories with my replacement text.
I found a rename.pl method that renames files, and I found some code that removes underscores in file names and replaces it with spaces... but when I modify the code to put in my search terms, it never seems to work.
So, basically, I need to replace "__NAME__" with something like "Project-Name".
I'm happy to modify the search strings for each future reuse, but I'd love to figure out how to create a file to which I can pass ARGS.
I'm on XP and can use cygwin (cygwin doesn't seem to have 'rename' which makes it hard to locate linux-type solutions with using the function called 'rename'....)
I did find this which is easy to use for files in the current directory, but I don't know enough to tell it to recurse into sub-directories.
Any help would be great.
Thanks,
Scott
From cygwin:
find /cygdrive/c/mytree -type f | perl -ne 'rename $_, $1/Project-Name if m[^(.*)/__NAME__$]'
Or using python:
import os
for root, dirs, files in os.walk("C:\\mytree"):
for filename in files:
if filename == "__NAME__":
os.rename(os.path.join(root, filename), os.path.join(root, "Project-Name"))
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I have a bunch of files with filenames like Matroid (bifrons's conflicted copy 2019-11-19).scala due to problems of synchronization. I want to find this files to remove or manually correct the problems (merge the two versions of the file). I tried the command below:
$ find . -iname '*conflicted*'
But it returns nothing! Nada!
I am guessing this is because the word conflicted occurs inside parentheses, but this is just a conjecture. Anyway, why my command do not find the files? How can I find them?
Thanks.
Actually the problem had nothing to do with parentheses at all. It as a (silly) mistake of mine. The directory containing the files with the *conflicted* filename was actually a link and find does not follow links by default. After informing the option -L it worked perfectly.
I'm currently working on a project where I take multiple 7z files and extract the contents of these files in a folder named the same way as the 7z file itself. I also apologize if something like this has been answered already; I spent time trying to investigate this issue but I can't seem to find anyone else who has had a similar issue.
For example:
a1.7z -> <targetpath>/a1/<contents within a1.7z>
The following shell line: a1.7z | % {& "C:\Program Files\7-Zip\7z.exe" "x" $_.fullname "-o<targetpath>\a1" -y -r}
Works like a dream, but only for one 7z file. However, whenever I start extracting a second 7z file, it won't create a new folder but instead will continue to add into the same first folder that is created; second folder is never made. When I manually highlight all of the 7z files I want to extract, right click and select "Extract to "*\", it does what I would like it to do but I can't figure out how to script this action. I should also mention that some of the 7z files, when extracted, can contain subfolders of the same name. I'm not sure if this is throwing off the recursion cycle, but I'm assuming this might be the case.
Any help or advice on this topic would be greatly appreciated!
If you get all the .7z files as IOFileInfo objects (Using get-ChildItem) you can use Mathias comment, as one way to do this with the pipeline, but I recommend you put this inside a loop and look for a better way to choose the names of the folders I.e. "NofFolder_$_.BaseName" just in case of more than 1 folder with the same name.
It really depends on the format you want.
I have an executable in a directory that is versioned, so the directory changes when the tool is updated.
The current command I run is the following:
.\packages\Chutzpah.4.1.0\tools\chutzpah.console.exe .\Tests\chutzpah.json
I want to do something like the following:
.\packages\Chutzpah**\tools\chutzpah.console.exe .\Tests\chutzpah.json
Windows command line doesn't like to expand wildcards but I'm hoping this is possible with powershell.
Simple answer here could be to use resolve-path which
Resolves the wildcard characters in a path, and displays the path contents.
So in practice you should be able to do something like this.
$path = Resolve-Path ".\packages\Chutzpah**\tools\chutzpah.console.exe" -Relative
& $path ".\Tests\chutzpah.json"
Note that Resolve-Path has the potential to match more that one thing.
Actually, Windows will expand the wild cards, but if the non-wildcard portion is not unique, you'll get the (I think) FIRST match.
So I think that really your problem is
"How do I tell which version I should be executing"
Which, if you have project files, etc., you might be able to extract from there.
In fact, you might well be wanting to extract something from the solution packages.config file, assuming that the .\packages\ prefix is there because you are wanting to run tests against files that are in a NuGet package.
Can you supply some more details?
EDIT:
OK, so you probably need to do something like System.IO.Directory.GetDirectories(path, pattern)
https://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/6ff71z1w(v=vs.110).aspx
And depending on what you'd done with "Chutzpah" you'll get one or more matches that you could use to select the correct path.
My question is how to use MATLAB to search for a certain type of files in a folder. I give an example to detail on my question:
Suppose we have the following folder as well as files in it:
My_folder
Sub_folder1
Sub_sub_folder1
a.txt
1.txt
2.txt
Sub_folder2
3.txt
abc.txt
In this example, I want to find all the .txt files in My_folder as well as its sub-folders. I was wondering what I could do with MATLAB. Thanks!
To my knowledge Matlab doesn't have an inbuilt function to do recursive directory searches, however there are a couple available for download on Matlab Central: here and here.
Alternatively you could write your own recursive function and use the dir function to search at each level for files matching your criterea or other directories to recurse into.
I agree with the Matlab Central options -- another method which I've used when MLC is not an option (no network, or customer computer, etc) is the quick and dirty dos commands:
dos(['dir /s/b ' mywildcard])
The /s will do a recursive directory search for whatever wildcards you specify, and /b will make it so you only get filenames (complete will full path, but no headers, file sizes, etc).
This is obviously platform dependant, so is mostly used when you are forced to work without your "standard" set of utilities you've accumulated.
Even though an answer has been accepted, I would like to point out Matlab's dir function.
This built-in function returns the contents of the folder in question. Furthermore, it indicates which content is a folder of its own. Therefore, with a little loop one could use this function to search sub-directories as well.
Goal : Collect all files, complete with directory structure, matching a directory structure.
Wrinkle: Need to filter out a pesky undesired directory that matches but is thankfully uniquely named 'do-not-want'. Actual string changed to protect the innocent.
source/dir1/content/scripts - ok
source/dir2/subdir1/content/scripts - ok
source/dir3/do-not-want/content/scripts - well... do not want
The script below works but I have to do a separate check for the undesired path which should not be necessary. When I test this same FileList in irb with the exclude it works as desired. From my rakefile I see the do-not-want directories being returned by the FileList.
FileList['source/**/content/scripts'].exclude('do-not-want').each do |f|
unless /do-not-want/ =~ f #hmm why does the exclude above not actually exclude do-not-want directories?
Dir.chdir(f) do |d|
puts "directory changed to #{d} and copying scripts from #{d} to common directory #{target}"
FileUtils.cp_r('.', target)
end
end
end
Surely I am doing something dumb.
Bonus points: if you help me learn rake/ruby and show me a better way to accomplish same goal while defeating the wrinkle.
I think you should use FileList['source/**/content/scripts'].exclude(/\/do-no-want\//) to filter out paths which contain "/do-no-want/" substring.
Try adding output to your rake file, so you can see and debug what's going on there.