How to change folders/files emblems recursively in linux? [closed] - linux

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I want to change my folder emblems recursively. I know that the command gvfs-set-attribute -t string ~/Desktop/ metadata::emblems [] can change the emblem of only Desktop.
How can I change whole folders and the files emblems? I tried gvfs-set-attribute -t stringv ~/* metadata::emblems [] but it returns error Error setting attribute: Setting attribute /home/taygun/Desktop not supported.

You could feed the command into find:
find ~/ -type d -exec gvfs-set-attribute -t stringv {} metadata::emblems [] \;
There are some known issues with the defaultdir ~ on some distros with gvfs-set-attribute (https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1368676)
Consider upgrading to the latest version if you're not already on it.

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Unix directory deletion: [closed]

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There was a directory structure on my linux server like this A/$b/
From my home directory executed a command
rm -rf A/$b.
After executing this command, The directory A itself was deleted.
Any idea what would have happened in the background?
A $ sign indicates the start of a variable in most shell languages.
If $b is not defined then your command would resolve as:
rm -rf A/
… which would delete the A directory.
To include the $ in the path you need to escape it:
rm -rf A/\$B

linux cp file at the same directory but do not want cd to that directory [closed]

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what i do
$ cp /etc/libvirt/qemu/centos7.8.xml{,123.xml}
what happend
$ ls /etc/libvirt/qemu/
centos7.8.xml centos7.8.xml123.xml
but what i want is
$ ls /etc/libvirt/qemu/
centos7.8.xml 123.xml
i don't want to use the follow , write /etc/libvirt/qemu twice:
$ cp /etc/libvirt/qemu/centos7.8.xml /etc/libvirt/qemu/123.xml
and i know what {,_backup} mean.
any way?
like follow ? no such format
cp /etc/libvirt/qemu/centos7.8.xml{123.xml}
Using bash extension brace expansion you can do the following:
cp /etc/libvirt/qemu/{centos7.8.xml,123.xml}
or even:
cp /etc/libvirt/qemu/{centos7.8,123}.xml

find: missing argument to `-exec' in Ubuntu Server 18.4 [closed]

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I was helped with a command, but it doesn't seem to be working. This is the command:
find /var/www/HernandezW/wordpress/ -type d -exec chmod 750 {}\;
The shell return error messages:
find: missing argument to `-exec'
How can I fix it to be able to install WordPress?
Try adding space after {}:
find /var/www/HernandezW/wordpress/ -type d -exec chmod 750 {} \;

How to delete folders that start with "--" through command line [closed]

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After running a bad command my computer generates folders that start with "--". When I run ls I get something like:
workspace
--workspace
I don't know how to delete these folders through the command line.
rm -r --workspace does not work. I only have access to this machine through CLI so I can't delete them using the gui.
My OS is Linux 18.04
You need to tell rm to stop parsing and use your arguments verbatim. You do this by passing a final -- argument before the file or folder name.
rm -r -- --workspace

Linux : Rename files that ends with live.conf to dev.conf [closed]

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I have list of files which ends with -live.conf.
e.g.
admin-live.conf
user-live.conf
Above files should be renamed to:
admin-dev.conf
user-dev.conf
please help me how can I achieve with single command.
this is rename stand-alone utility by perl package.
usage :-
rename -n -v 's/live.conf/dev.conf/' *
Proper find + bash solution:
find . -type f -name "*-live.conf" -exec bash -c \
'dir_n=${0%/*}/; fn=${0##*/}; mv "$0" "$dir_n${fn/-live/-dev}"; ' {} \;

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