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A directory or folder is a container within a digital file system, in which groups of computer files and other directories can be kept and organized.

A directory or folder is a container within a digital file system, in which groups of computer files and other directories can be kept and organized.

A typical file system may contain thousands (or even hundreds of thousands) of directories. Files are kept organized by storing related files in the same directory. A directory contained inside another directory is called a subdirectory or child of that directory. Together, the directories form a hierarchy, or tree structure.

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How to find all files containing specific text (string) on Linux?

How do I find all files containing a specific string of text within their file contents? The following doesn't work. It seems to display every single file in the system. find / -type f -exec grep -H 'text-to-find-here' {} \;
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How do I get the directory where a Bash script is located from within the script itself?

How do I get the path of the directory in which a Bash script is located, inside that script? I want to use a Bash script as a launcher for another application. I want to change the working directory to the one where the Bash script is located, so I…
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How do I create a directory, and any missing parent directories?

How do I create a directory at a given path, and also create any missing parent directories along that path? For example, the Bash command mkdir -p /path/to/nested/directory does this.
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How do I add an empty directory to a Git repository?

How do I add an empty directory (that contains no files) to a Git repository?
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How do I list all files of a directory?

How can I list all files of a directory in Python and add them to a list?
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How can I delete a file or folder in Python?

How can I delete a file or folder in Python?
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Find the current directory and file's directory

How do I determine: the current directory (where I was in the shell when I ran the Python script), and where the Python file I am executing is?
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How do I change permissions for a folder and its subfolders/files?

How do I change the permissions of a folder and all its subfolders and files? This only applies to the /opt/lampp/htdocs folder, not its contents: chmod 775 /opt/lampp/htdocs How do I set chmod 755 for all of the /opt/lampp/htdocs folder's current…
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Download a single folder or directory from a GitHub repo

How can I download only a specific folder or directory from a remote Git repo hosted on GitHub? Say the example GitHub repo lives here: git@github.com:foobar/Test.git Its directory structure: Test/ ├── foo/ │ ├── a.py │ └── b.py └── bar/ …
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How do I check if a directory exists in Python?

How do I check if a directory exists in Python?
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How do I get the full path of the current file's directory?

How do I get the current file's directory path? I tried: >>> os.path.abspath(__file__) 'C:\\python27\\test.py' But I want: 'C:\\python27\\'
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Listing only directories using ls in Bash?

This command lists directories in the current path: ls -d */ What exactly does the pattern */ do? And how can we give the absolute path in the above command (e.g. ls -d /home/alice/Documents) for listing only directories in that path?
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Importing modules from parent folder

I am running Python 2.5. This is my folder tree: ptdraft/ nib.py simulations/ life/ life.py (I also have __init__.py in each folder, omitted here for readability) How do I import the nib module from inside the life module? I am hoping…
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In a Git repository, how to properly rename a directory?

I think it should work to copy the directory to be renamed to a new directory with desired name, and delete the old directory, and git add, git commit and push everything. But is this the best way?
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If a folder does not exist, create it

I use a FileUploader control in my application. I want to save a file to a specified folder. If this folder does not exist, I want to first create it, and then save my file to this folder. If the folder already exists, then just save the file in…
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