Discussions about directory

In Unix, can I run 'make' in a directory without cd'ing to that directory first? In Unix, can I run 'make' in a directory without cd'ing to that directory first? Started by on Saturday, January 17, 2009, 4 posts by 4 people.   Read the full thread at stackoverflow Discuss this with your friends on Facebook Answer Snippets (Read the full thread at stackoverflow): If the reason you don't want.... Here && is used instead of ; to catch error cases where the directory can not be changed. Which first has its working directory changed (while leaving the working directory of the parent shell alone).

How to delete all files from current directory including current directory How can I delete all files and sub directories from current directory including current directory? Started by Ib33X on Sunday, February 15, 2009, 6 posts by 6 people.   Read the full thread at stackoverflow Discuss this with your friends on Facebook Answer Snippets (Read the full thread at stackoverflow): Rm -fr "`pwd`" Under bash directory starts with a dash (non-bash.... Operating system? on the *NIX-based stuff, you're looking for 'rm -rf directory/' NOTE: the '-r, otherwise it will fail since you can't remove the current directory.

Bash snippet to move all files in a directory into that directory I have a directory with lots of files and directories in it. In order to tidy it up, I'm going to put all those files into a directory, so I was going to do something like this: $ ls | wc -l 123 $ mkdir new_directory $ mv * ./new_directory However that... Started by Rory McCann on Tuesday, September 08, 2009, 9 posts by 9 people.   Read the full thread at serverfault Discuss this with your friends on Facebook Answer Snippets (Read the full thread at serverfault): -type f -maxdepth 1 -exec mv {} ./new_directory This should be 100% portable.... Not directories), then find . Mv `ls -A | grep -v new_directory` ./new_directory If you're just looking for the files (i.e. A fast and dirty oneliner.

Unpacking a directory into its parent directory. I've got a directory ( wordpress ) in a folder (the main html directory of my website) and I'd like to "unpack" it into the main html directory. That is to say, I'd like to remove the wordpress directory and have all its subdirectories be under /html/... Started by Isaac Copper on Saturday, October 10, 2009, 4 posts by 4 people.   Read the full thread at stackoverflow Discuss this with your friends on Facebook Answer Snippets (Read the full thread at stackoverflow): $ rmdir wordpress Do you need something more complicated? mv /path/to/html/wordpress/* /path/to/html rmdir /path/to/html/wordpress Should work mv /html/wordpress/* /html rmdir wordpress . $ cd .. Cd /html/wordpress $ mv * ..

How to make files created in a directory owned by directory group? Is there a way, on Linux, to cause all new files created in a directory to be owned by the directory's group instead of the creating user's group? Started by singpolyma on Friday, January 29, 2010, 3 posts by 3 people.   Read the full thread at superuser Discuss this with your friends on Facebook Answer Snippets (Read the full thread at superuser): If you 'chmod g+s directory' then all files created in that directory will be owned by that group.

How do I tar a directory of files and folders without including the directory itself? I typically do: tar -czvf my_directory.tar my_directory What if I just want to include everything (including any hidden system files) in my_directory, but not the directory itself? I don't want: my_directory --- my_file --- my_file --- my_file I want:... Started by hal10001 on Tuesday, June 02, 2009, 6 posts by 4 people.   Read the full thread at stackoverflow Discuss this with your friends on Facebook Answer Snippets (Read the full thread at stackoverflow): Cd my_directory tar zcvf ../my_directory.tar.gz * You can also create archive as usual and extract by *), you need to do cd my_directory tar zcvf ../my_directory.tar.gz * .??* (I don't know what hidden files look like under windows.) cd....

How do I get a directory size (files in the directory) in C#? I want to be able to get the size of one of the local directories using C#. I'm trying to avoid the following (pseudo like code), although in the worst case scenario I will have to settle for this: int GetSize(Directory) { int Size = 0; foreach ( File... Started by ThePower on Monday, July 13, 2009, 7 posts by 7 people.   Read the full thread at stackoverflow Discuss this with your friends on Facebook Answer Snippets (Read the full thread at stackoverflow): You could hide your() method): public static IEnumerable<FileInfo> Walk(this DirectoryInfo directory) { foreach the sizeof all files in the current .... Enumerator-based file/directory listing methods which save on the big arrays.

FTP Directory Permission Issue: Does Granting access to a directory also Grant Access to other Parallel Directory? I have a FTP directory permission issue. Under the root directory of my FT directory I have 2 sub directory: DirectoryA DirectoryB I have granted one machine with the read/write permission to DirectoryB . Does this mean that it will also have the same... Started by Ngu Soon Hui on Tuesday, September 01, 2009, 4 posts by 4 people.   Read the full thread at serverfault Discuss this with your friends on Facebook Answer Snippets (Read the full thread at serverfault): If Directory A and DirectoryB each stem. They do not jump across to parallel directories.

Apache vs. What is the difference between <Directory /var/www/> Options All -Indexes </Directory> and <Directory /var/www/*> Options All -Indexes </Directory> ? The first does not work, the second does work, on my server. And there doesn'... Started by mattloaf1 on Tuesday, November 24, 2009, 3 posts by 3 people.   Read the full thread at serverfault Discuss this with your friends on Facebook Answer Snippets (Read the full thread at serverfault): Do you have any files in the directory? When you are changing directory are you using the following command? cd /var/www If you are typing an extra "/" at the end such as: cd /var/www.... I just checked and the first one works for me . Strange.

How do I create a directory within the current working directory, in Java What is the most succinct way to create a directory called "Foo" underneath the current working directory of my Java application (if it does not already exist)? Or, a slightly different angle: What is the Java equivalent of Directory.CreateDirectory("... Started by Daniel Fortunov on Monday, October 12, 2009, 3 posts by 3 people.   Read the full thread at stackoverflow Discuss this with your friends on Facebook Answer Snippets (Read the full thread at stackoverflow): (More specifically.... The java.io package does not have a Directory class, but you can use the mkdir() method on the File: "If a security manager exists and its checkWrite() method does not permit the named directory to be created() will return false.