These Are The Bash Shell Commands That Stand Between Me And Insanity

I will not profess to be a bash shell wizard… but I have managed to scour some pretty helpful little scripts from Stack Overflow and modify…

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These Are The Bash Shell Commands That Stand Between Me And Insanity

I will not profess to be a bash shell wizard… but I have managed to scour some pretty helpful little scripts from Stack Overflow and modify them to suit my needs.

All of these commands are for Ubuntu/WSL … some may work in other scenarios but I can’t guarantee it.

As of this writing I have about 120 more bash snippets I regularly use… I am not writing the whole article right now but I wanted to get it started so I feel obligated to finish it!

Recursive Unzip followed by recursive delete zip:

Remove spaces from file and folder names

Find and replace in string/folder names

find . -type f -exec rename ‘s/string1/string2/g’ {} +

Remove numbers from file names

find $dir -type f | sed ‘s|\(.*/\)[^A-Z]*\([A-Z].*\)|mv \”&\” \”\1\2\”|’ | sh

Delete files within size range ( for when GitHub cries about file size):

find . -size +386b -a -size -390b -exec rm -f {} \;

Create symbolic link to working directory

ln -s “$(pwd)” ~/mylink

Remove any traces of a git repository:

find . \( -name “.git” -o -name “.gitignore” -o -name “.gitmodules” -o -name “.gitattributes” \) -exec rm -rf — {} +

Replace spaces in filenames with underscores

for file in *; do mv “$file” `echo $file | tr ‘ ‘ ‘_’` ; done

Remove Empty Files and Folders:

find . -empty -type f -print -delete
find . -empty -type d -print -delete 

or

find . -depth -exec rmdir {} \;

Autogenerate a navigable HTML directory for all the files in the current working directory you exicute the script in:

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By Bryan Guner on May 15, 2021.

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