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How to copy with cp to include hidden files and hidden directories and their contents?

How can I make cp -r copy absolutely all of the files and directories in a directory Requirements: Include hidden files and hidden directories. Be one single command with an flag to include the above. Not need to rely on pattern matching at…
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Ignore .svn when doing `diff -r`

diff has an option --recursive (-r) to do a comparison between two directories (the files inside them). Is there a way to make diff ignore certain sub-directories (eg: .svn)? $ diff -r src1/ src2/
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How can I force only relative paths in "find" output?

I am attempting to create a script that can compress files with a certain extension in a number of directories into a single tar-ball. Currently what I have in the script file is: find "$rootDir" -name '*doc' -exec tar rvf docs.tar {} \; Where…
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zip: Argument list too long (80.000 files in overall)

I need to compress 80.000 files into multiple zip files. This is the command I use: zip -s 200M photos_test/* However I get the following error: -bash: /usr/bin/zip: Argument list too long What can I do to solve the issue, beside manually…
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Recursive ls with conditions

Why can't I use a command like this to find all the pdf files in a directory and subdirectories? How do I do it? (I'm using bash in ubuntu) ls -R *.pdf EDIT How would I then go about deleting all these files?
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Get bare file names recursively in command prompt

I ran into a little snag trying to get only the filenames (no extensions or file paths) recursively.This worked for me in the root folder: dir /b But when i added /s to scan recursively i also got file paths before filenames which i do not want. Is…
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How do you search for specific text in specific file types?

Possible Duplicate: How can I grep in source files for some text? What's the command to search for specific text in specific file types, recursively, under the current directory?
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Extract recursively using 7-Zip

I have several folders, and within each folder, there are ZIP files. I want to run a command line order to recursively go through every folder and extract in place every archived file that it finds, then move on to the next folder. Is this even…
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How to find files that don't belong to a given user

How do I recursively search for all files or directories that do not belong to given user?
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List all files and dirs without recursion with junctions

Is there a native|portable tool that can give me a unicode or a system local-compatible list of all files and directories under a path recursively, without recursing into junction points or links, in Windows? For example, the built-in dir takedown…
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mogrify - how do you recurse through subfolders in Windows

I thought there was a simple switch in mogrify command options that tells it go through subfolders as well. I didn't find any. On Linux, the "find" command seems to do the trick, how do you do this on Windows? magick mogrify -resample 72 -resize…
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Mass Checksumming tool for Windows?

I'm looking for a command line tool for windows that will go over a directory tree (recursively) and output a list of all the files in there, and a checksum for each file (can be CRC, MD5, whatever). Esentially, what I want is to compare 2 big…
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wget - only getting .listing file in every sub-dir

if I use the command wget --no-remove-listing -P ...../debugdir/gnu// ftp:/gnu// I will get the .listing file of that directory. But I have to step through each subsequent sub-directories to get the whole structure. Is there a…
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How to chown large group of files based on previous owner id?

I created a new account in OS X and disposed of my old one. I have a bunch of files that now have owner 501 that need to have ownership changed to me [/usr/local]$ ll total 24 drwxrwxr-x 18 root admin 612B Oct 20 11:01 ./ drwxr-xr-x@ 14 root …
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Recursive download of subfolder with wget - --no-parent apparently not working

I need some documentation about XUL but I do not have Internet access most of the time. So, I've tried to download the Mozilla Tutorial with the following command: wget --no-parent -r -l 2 -p -k https://developer.mozilla.org/en/XUL_Tutorial My…
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