Notepad++ cached files location
I noticed it myself, and found the files inside the backup folder. You can check where it is using Menu:Settings -> Preferences -> Backup. Note : My NPP installation is portable, and on Windows, so YMMV.
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How to copy a file from one directory to another using PHP?
You could use the copy() function : // Will copy foo/test.php to bar/test.php // overwritting it if necessary copy(‘foo/test.php’, ‘bar/test.php’); Quoting a couple of relevant sentences from its manual page : Makes a copy of the file source to dest. If the destination file already exists, it will be overwritten.
How do I check if a given string is a legal/valid file name under Windows?
From MSDN’s “Naming a File or Directory,” here are the general conventions for what a legal file name is under Windows: You may use any character in the current code page (Unicode/ANSI above 127), except: < > : ” / \ | ? * Characters whose integer representations are 0-31 (less than ASCII space) Any … Read more
How to list only top level directories in Python?
os.walk Use os.walk with next item function: next(os.walk(‘.’))[1] For Python <=2.5 use: os.walk(‘.’).next()[1] How this works os.walk is a generator and calling next will get the first result in the form of a 3-tuple (dirpath, dirnames, filenames). Thus the [1] index returns only the dirnames from that tuple.
NTFS performance and large volumes of files and directories
Here’s some advice from someone with an environment where we have folders containing tens of millions of files. A folder stores the index information (links to child files & child folder) in an index file. This file will get very large when you have a lot of children. Note that it doesn’t distinguish between a … Read more
Linux delete file with size 0 [duplicate]
This will delete all the files in a directory (and below) that are size zero. find /tmp -size 0 -print -delete If you just want a particular file; if [ ! -s /tmp/foo ] ; then rm /tmp/foo fi
How to determine MIME type of file in android?
First and foremost, you should consider calling MimeTypeMap#getMimeTypeFromExtension(), like this: // url = file path or whatever suitable URL you want. public static String getMimeType(String url) { String type = null; String extension = MimeTypeMap.getFileExtensionFromUrl(url); if (extension != null) { type = MimeTypeMap.getSingleton().getMimeTypeFromExtension(extension); } return type; }
Getting the folder name from a full filename path
I would probably use something like: string path = “C:/folder1/folder2/file.txt”; string lastFolderName = Path.GetFileName( Path.GetDirectoryName( path ) ); The inner call to GetDirectoryName will return the full path, while the outer call to GetFileName() will return the last path component – which will be the folder name. This approach works whether or not the path … Read more
fs: how do I locate a parent folder?
Try this: fs.readFile(__dirname + ‘/../../foo.bar’); Note the forward slash at the beginning of the relative path.
How to recursively find the latest modified file in a directory?
find . -type f -printf ‘%T@ %p\n’ \ | sort -n | tail -1 | cut -f2- -d” ” For a huge tree, it might be hard for sort to keep everything in memory. %T@ gives you the modification time like a unix timestamp, sort -n sorts numerically, tail -1 takes the last line (highest … Read more