filesystems

Server.MapPath(“.”), Server.MapPath(“~”), Server.MapPath(@”\”), Server.MapPath(“/”). What is the difference?

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Server.MapPath specifies the relative or virtual path to map to a physical directory. Server.MapPath(“.”)1 returns the current physical directory of the file (e.g. aspx) being executed Server.MapPath(“..”) returns the parent directory Server.MapPath(“~”) returns the physical path to the root of the application Server.MapPath(“https://stackoverflow.com/”) returns the physical path to the root of the domain name (is … Read more

Node.js check if path is file or directory

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The following should tell you. From the docs: fs.lstatSync(path_string).isDirectory() Objects returned from fs.stat() and fs.lstat() are of this type. stats.isFile() stats.isDirectory() stats.isBlockDevice() stats.isCharacterDevice() stats.isSymbolicLink() // (only valid with fs.lstat()) stats.isFIFO() stats.isSocket() NOTE: The above solution will throw an Error if; for ex, the file or directory doesn’t exist. If you want a true or false … Read more

How to recursively find and list the latest modified files in a directory with subdirectories and times

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Try this one: #!/bin/bash find $1 -type f -exec stat –format ‘%Y :%y %n’ “{}” \; | sort -nr | cut -d: -f2- | head Execute it with the path to the directory where it should start scanning recursively (it supports filenames with spaces). If there are lots of files it may take a while … Read more

How many files can I put in a directory?

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FAT32: Maximum number of files: 268,173,300 Maximum number of files per directory: 216 – 1 (65,535) Maximum file size: 2 GiB – 1 without LFS, 4 GiB – 1 with NTFS: Maximum number of files: 232 – 1 (4,294,967,295) Maximum file size Implementation: 244 – 26 bytes (16 TiB – 64 KiB) Theoretical: 264 – 26 bytes (16 EiB – 64 KiB) Maximum volume size Implementation: 232 – 1 clusters (256 TiB – 64 KiB) Theoretical: 264 – 1 clusters (1 YiB – 64 KiB) ext2: Maximum number of files: 1018 … Read more

How to use glob() to find files recursively?

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pathlib.Path.rglob Use pathlib.Path.rglob from the the pathlib module, which was introduced in Python 3.5. from pathlib import Path for path in Path(‘src’).rglob(‘*.c’): print(path.name) If you don’t want to use pathlib, use can use glob.glob(‘**/*.c’), but don’t forget to pass in the recursive keyword parameter and it will use inordinate amount of time on large directories. … Read more