Questions tagged [directory]
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.
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Find all files containing a 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 '...
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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 ...
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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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Find the current directory and file's directory [duplicate]
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? [closed]
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 ...
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Download a single folder or directory from a GitHub repository
How can I download only a specific folder or directory from a remote Git repository hosted on GitHub?
Say the example GitHub repository lives here:
[email protected]:foobar/Test.git
Its directory ...
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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? [duplicate]
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? [closed]
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 ...
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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 ...
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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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Getting a list of all subdirectories in the current directory
Is there a way to return a list of all the subdirectories in the current directory in Python?
I know you can do this with files, but I need to get the list of directories instead.
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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 ...
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How can I iterate over files in a given directory?
I need to iterate through all .asm files inside a given directory and do some actions on them.
How can this be done in a efficient way?
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How can I rename a project folder from within Visual Studio?
My current solution for renaming the project folder is:
Remove the project from the solution.
Rename the folder outside Visual Studio.
Re-add the project to the solution.
Is there a better way?
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How can I get the list of files in a directory using C or C++?
How can I determine the list of files in a directory from inside my C or C++ code?
I'm not allowed to execute the ls command and parse the results from within my program.
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How do I ignore a directory with SVN?
I just started using SVN, and I have a cache directory that I don't need under source control. How can I ignore the whole directory/folder with SVN?
I am using Versions and TextMate on OS X and ...
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How can I read all files in a folder from Java?
How can I read all the files in a folder through Java? It doesn't matter which API.
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Create a folder if it doesn't already exist
I've run into a few cases with WordPress installs with Bluehost where I've encountered errors with my WordPress theme because the uploads folder wp-content/uploads was not present.
Apparently the ...
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How do I find files that do not contain a given string pattern?
How do I find out the files in the current directory which do not contain the word foo (using grep)?
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How can I Git ignore subfolders / subdirectories?
I have a lot of projects in my .NET solution. I would like to exclude all "bin/Debug" and "bin/Release" folders (and their contents), but still include the "bin" folder ...
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What characters are forbidden in Windows and Linux directory names?
I know that / is illegal in Linux, and * " / \ < > : | ? are illegal in Windows.
What else am I missing? I need a comprehensive guide that also accounts for double-byte characters.
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How can I find script's directory? [duplicate]
Consider the following Python code:
import os
print os.getcwd()
I use os.getcwd() to get the script file's directory location. When I run the script from the command line it gives me the correct ...
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How do I get the directory from a file's full path?
What is the simplest way to get the directory that a file is in? I'm using this to set a working directory.
string filename = @"C:\MyDirectory\MyFile.bat";
In this example, I should get "C:\...
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What is the current directory in a batch file?
I want to create a few batch files to automate a program.
My question is when I create the batch file, what is the current directory?
Is it the directory where the file is located or is it the same ...
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Copy the entire contents of a directory in C#
I want to copy the entire contents of a directory from one location to another in C#.
There doesn't appear to be a way to do this using System.IO classes without lots of recursion.
There is a method ...
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Directory-tree listing in Python
How do I get a list of all files (and directories) in a given directory in Python?
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How to remove illegal characters from path and filenames?
I need a robust and simple way to remove illegal path and file characters from a simple string. I've used the below code but it doesn't seem to do anything, what am I missing?
using System;
using ...
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Node.js check if path is file or directory
I can't seem to get any search results that explain how to do this.
All I want to do is be able to know if a given path is a file or a directory (folder).
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Command prompt won't change directory to another drive
I'm trying to compile some java (learning java currently), and to do so I need to change command-prompt's directory.
C:\...\Admin> cd D:\Docs\Java
C:\...\Admin> cd
C:\...\Admin
It doesn't ...
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Folder management with r : Check existence of directory and create it if it doesn't exist
I often find myself writing R scripts that generate a lot of output. I find it cleaner to put this output into its own directory(s). What I've written below will check for the existence of a directory ...
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How to create a directory using Ansible
How do you create a directory www at /srv on a Debian-based system using an Ansible playbook?
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Better way to check if a Path is a File or a Directory?
I am processing a TreeView of directories and files. A user can select either a file or a directory and then do something with it. This requires me to have a method which performs different actions ...
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Check folder size in Bash
I'm trying to write a script that will calculate a directory size and if the size is less than 10GB, and greater then 2GB do some action. Where do I need to mention my folder name?
# 10GB
SIZE="...
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How to create a directory in Java?
How do I create Directory/folder?
Once I have tested System.getProperty("user.home");
I have to create a directory (directory name "new folder" ) if and only if new folder does not exist.
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Server.MapPath("."), Server.MapPath("~"), Server.MapPath(@"\"), Server.MapPath("/"). What is the difference?
Can anyone explain the difference between Server.MapPath("."), Server.MapPath("~"), Server.MapPath(@"\") and Server.MapPath("/")?
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Getting the filenames of all files in a folder [duplicate]
I need to create a list with all names of the files in a folder.
For example, if I have:
000.jpg
012.jpg
013.jpg
I want to store them in a ArrayList with [000,012,013] as values.
What's the best ...
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How to remove files and directories quickly via terminal (bash shell) [closed]
From a terminal window:
When I use the rm command it can only remove files.
When I use the rmdir command it only removes empty folders.
If I have a directory nested with files and folders within ...
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How to get a path to the desktop for current user in C#?
How do I get a path to the desktop for current user in C#?
The only thing I could find was the VB.NET-only class SpecialDirectories, which has this property:
My.Computer.FileSystem....
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Get names of all files from a folder with Ruby
I want to get all file names from a folder using Ruby.
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Get all directories within directory nodejs
I was hoping this would be a simple thing, but I cannot find anything out there to do so.
I just want to get all folders/directories within a given folder/directory.
So for example:
<MyFolder>...
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How to create a temporary directory/folder in Java?
Is there a standard and reliable way of creating a temporary directory inside a Java application? There's an entry in Java's issue database, which has a bit of code in the comments, but I wonder if ...
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How to check permissions of a specific directory?
I know that using ls -l "directory/directory/filename" tells me the permissions of a file. How do I do the same on a directory?
I could obviously use ls -l on the directory higher in the hierarchy ...
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How to delete files/subfolders in a specific directory at the command prompt in Windows
Say, there is a variable called %pathtofolder%, as it makes it clear it is a full path of a folder.
I want to delete every single file and subfolder in this directory, but not the directory itself.
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How to quietly remove a directory with content in PowerShell
Using PowerShell, is it possible to remove some directory that contains files without prompting to confirm action?
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Best way to require all files from a directory in ruby?
What's the best way to require all files from a directory in ruby ?
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What does "opt" mean (as in the "opt" directory)? Is it an abbreviation? [closed]
What does "opt" mean (as in the "opt" directory)? I commonly see this directory in Unix systems with development tools inside.
Is it an abbreviation?
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