Save current directory in variable using Bash?
This saves the absolute path of the current working directory to the variable cwd: cwd=$(pwd) In your case you can just do: export PATH=$PATH:$(pwd)+somethingelse
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copying all contents of folder to another folder using batch file?
xcopy.exe is the solution here. It’s built into Windows. xcopy /s c:\Folder1 d:\Folder2 You can find more options at http://www.computerhope.com/xcopyhlp.htm
Git status – is there a way to show changes only in a specific directory?
From within the directory: git status . You can use any path really, use this syntax: git status <directoryPath> For instance for directory with path “my/cool/path/here” git status my/cool/path/here
How to quickly check if folder is empty (.NET)?
There is a new feature in Directory and DirectoryInfo in .NET 4 that allows them to return an IEnumerable instead of an array, and start returning results before reading all the directory contents. What’s New in the BCL in .NET 4 Beta 1 Directory.EnumerateFileSystemEntries method overloads public bool IsDirectoryEmpty(string path) { IEnumerable<string> items = Directory.EnumerateFileSystemEntries(path); … Read more
What is the difference between Directory.EnumerateFiles vs Directory.GetFiles?
From the docs: The EnumerateFiles and GetFiles methods differ as follows: When you use EnumerateFiles, you can start enumerating the collection of names before the whole collection is returned; when you use GetFiles, you must wait for the whole array of names to be returned before you can access the array. Therefore, when you are … Read more
What is the difference between a directory and a folder?
Check “The folder metaphor” section at Wikipedia. It states: There is a difference between a directory, which is a file system concept, and the graphical user interface metaphor that is used to represent it (a folder). For example, Microsoft Windows uses the concept of special folders to help present the contents of the computer to … Read more
How to find out mount/partition a directory or file is on? (Linux Server) [closed]
df -P file/goes/here | tail -1 | cut -d’ ‘ -f 1
How can I extract the folder path from file path in Python?
You were almost there with your use of the split function. You just needed to join the strings, like follows. >>> import os >>> ‘\\’.join(existGDBPath.split(‘\\’)[0:-1]) ‘T:\\Data\\DBDesign’ Although, I would recommend using the os.path.dirname function to do this, you just need to pass the string, and it’ll do the work for you. Since, you seem to … Read more
Moving Files into a Real Folder in Xcode
A modern (and dead simple!) approach for 2017 (Xcode 6, 7, 8, and sometimes 9, since it does it automagically some of the time): If you’re moving a bunch of files into a new folder and are keeping the child hierarchy, it’s actually a lot easier than moving each file individually: Create new groups in … Read more
cd into directory without having permission
@user812954’s answer was quite helpful, except I had to do this this in two steps: sudo su cd directory Then, to exit out of “super user” mode, just type exit.