I have several tests in a directory which were compiled in C and created the image or output in 'unmanaged' folders under each test directory. I would like to delete only the unmanaged folders under every test directory (a cleanup you can say) and keep all other directories like src, cmm, scf (scatter files) etc. unchanged.
I can do this either in Windows or Linux since the directory is mapped to Windows. Please let me know how do I proceed.
find . -name unmanaged -type d -exec rm -rf {} \;
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We have an Ubuntu Server that is only accessed via terminal, and users transfer files to directories within 1 parent directory (i.e. /storage/DiskA/userA/doc1.doc /storage/DiskA/userB/doc1.doc). I need to copy all the specific files within the user folders to another dir, and I'm trying to specifically target the .doc extension.
I've tried running the following:
cp -R /storage/diskA/*.doc /storage/diskB/monthly_report/
However, it keeps telling me there is no such file/dir.
I want to be able to just pull the .doc files from all the user dirs and transfer to that dir, /storage/monthly_report/.
I know this is an easy task, but apparently, I'm just daft enough to not be able to figure this out. Any assistance would be wonderful.
EDIT: I updated the original to show that I have 2 Disks. Moving from Disk A to Disk B.
I would go for find -exec for such a task, something like:
find /storage/DiskA -name "*.doc" -exec cp {} /storage/DiskB/monthly_report/ \;
That should do the trick.
Use
rsync -zarv --include="*/" --include="*.doc" --exclude="*" /storage/diskA/*.doc /storage/diskB/monthly_report/
I found a script online that works when entered into custom cronjobs on cpanel.
When i run this script, the code deletes the folder and everything within it.
rm -rf public_html/storage_area/images/
I would like to delete empty sub-folders housed within the images folder and not the actual images folder itself.
I do not have much technical knowledge so any help would be much appreciated. I have tried a few php scripts that i found online but did not have much luck so if there is something that exists even better.
Thank you for any assistance.
You just need to modify the command a bit.
If you need to remove only files inside that folder you can use,
rm -rf public_html/storage_area/images/*.*
The *.* will only remove files within the folder public_html/storage_area/images/ having an extension.
If you need to remove files and sub folders, then you need to use
rm -rf public_html/storage_area/images/*
If you only need to remove sub folders which are empty, you can use
find -type d -empty -delete
Before running the above command, you may need to verify whether the command is only returning empty folders. For that you can use,
find public_html/storage_area/images/ -type d -empty -print
I have a bunch of files in separate folders, and all of the folders are in one directory.
/var/www/folder1/file1.txt
/var/www/folder1/file2.txt
/var/www/folder1/file3.txt
/var/www/folder2/file4.jpg
/var/www/folder2/file5.jpg
/var/www/folder2/file6.jpg
/var/www/folder3/file7.pdf
/var/www/folder3/file8.doc
/var/www/folder3/file9.gif
I need everything inside of the folders that are inside of /var/www/ to be copied to another directory (say, /var/my-directory/), but not the actual folders. Based on the example above, I need /var/my-directory/` to look as follows:
/var/my-directory/file1.txt
/var/my-directory/file2.txt
/var/my-directory/file3.txt
/var/my-directory/file4.jpg
/var/my-directory/file5.jpg
/var/my-directory/file6.jpg
/var/my-directory/file7.pdf
/var/my-directory/file8.doc
/var/my-directory/file9.gif
I can't seem to figure out the command to do this. I've tried the following:
sudo cp -R /var/www/./. /var/my-directory/
But, that still copies all of the folders.
Is there any way to do what I'm trying to do?
Use find.
find /var/www/ -type f -exec cp '{}' /var/my-directory/ \;
The trick is -type f that only selects file.
I have application which has one folder called vendor and one file called .env. When ever i automatically publish my source code files to folder, all old files should get deleted except these two.
How can i do this in linux by using shell?
PS : I am trying to implement rollback mechanism in Jenkins. I will copy artifacts from old build and transfer them to server using ssh. But this will be a copy operation. So I want to delete previous files before starting copy using SSH.
You can use find:
find ! \( -name 'name1' -o -name 'name2' \) -exec rm -r {} +
try with this command
rm !(<filename>)
I'm trying to remove all .html files from the directory generated and from all subfolders there but it needs to leave all other files and directories alone.
I tried going through folder by folder and running rm *.html but this takes a long time as there are 20+ subfolders which also have subfolders. I tried looking the man pages for rm but nothing obvious jumped out. I'm sure there's a way to do this in one shot but I don't know how. Any ideas?
I think this may work:
cd generated
find . -type f -iname "*.html" -delete