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How to programmatically move, copy and delete files and directories on SD?

January 3, 2023 by Tarik

set the correct permissions in the manifest <uses-permission android:name=”android.permission.WRITE_EXTERNAL_STORAGE” /> below is a function that will programmatically move your file private void moveFile(String inputPath, String inputFile, String outputPath) { InputStream in = null; OutputStream out = null; try { //create output directory if it doesn’t exist File dir = new File (outputPath); if (!dir.exists()) { … Read more

How to perform file system scanning

January 1, 2023 by Tarik

EDIT FOR 1.16: Enough people still hit this answer, that I thought I’d update it for Go 1.16. The function filepath.WalkDir introduced in Go 1.16 has better performance than filepath.Walk mentioned in the previous edit. Here’s a working example: package main import ( “flag” “fmt” “io/fs” “path/filepath” ) func visit(path string, di fs.DirEntry, err error) … Read more

How can I move all git content one-level up in the folder hierarchy?

January 1, 2023 by Tarik

The right way to do this is: git mv repo.git/webapp/* repo.git/. git rm repo.git/webapp git add * git commit -m “Folders moved out of webapp directory :-)”

In Unix, how do you remove everything in the current directory and below it?

December 28, 2022 by Tarik

Practice safe computing. Simply go up one level in the hierarchy and don’t use a wildcard expression: cd ..; rm -rf — <dir-to-remove> The two dashes — tell rm that <dir-to-remove> is not a command-line option, even when it begins with a dash.

How do I find the parent directory in C#?

December 27, 2022 by Tarik

You can use System.IO.Directory.GetParent() to retrieve the parent directory of a given directory.

How to filter files when using scp to copy dir recursively?

December 26, 2022 by Tarik

I’d probably recommend using something like rsync for this due to its include and exclude flags, e.g:- rsync -rav -e ssh –include ‘*/’ –include=”*.class” –exclude=”*” \ server:/usr/some/unknown/number/of/sub/folders/ \ /usr/project/backup/some/unknown/number/of/sub/folders/ Some other useful flags: -r for recursive -a for archive (mostly all files) -v for verbose output -e to specify ssh instead of the default (which … Read more

How to determine the OS path separator in JavaScript?

December 26, 2022 by Tarik

Use path module in node.js returns the platform-specific file separator. example path.sep // on *nix evaluates to a string equal to “https://stackoverflow.com/” Edit: As per Sebas’s comment below, to use this, you need to add this at the top of your js file: const path = require(‘path’)

How to find the largest file in a directory and its subdirectories?

December 24, 2022 by Tarik

Quote from this link- If you want to find and print the top 10 largest files names (not directories) in a particular directory and its sub directories $ find . -type f -printf ‘%s %p\n’|sort -nr|head To restrict the search to the present directory use “-maxdepth 1” with find. $ find . -maxdepth 1 -printf … Read more

How to rename a virtualenv in Python?

December 22, 2022 by Tarik

By default virtualenv does not support the renaming of environments. It is safer to just delete the virtualenv directory and create a new one with the correct name. You can do this by: Activate your virtualenv: source vnev/bin/activate Create a requirements.txt of currently installed packages: pip freeze > requirements.txt Delete the misspelled virtualenv: rm -r … Read more

Get folder name from full file path

December 22, 2022 by Tarik

See DirectoryInfo.Name: string dirName = new DirectoryInfo(@”c:\projects\roott\wsdlproj\devlop\beta2\text”).Name;