You can do what you are describing like this: Move the content of ABC to an ABC/ subdirectory, and fix the history so that it looks like it has always been there: $ cd /path/to/ABC $ git filter-branch –index-filter \ ‘git ls-files -s | sed “s-\t-&ABC/-” | GIT_INDEX_FILE=$GIT_INDEX_FILE.new \ git update-index –index-info && mv $GIT_INDEX_FILE.new … Read more
chmod can actually do this itself; the X symbolic permission means “execute, if it makes sense” which generally means on directories but not files. So, you can use: chmod -R u=rwX,go=rX /path/to/htdocs The only potential problem is that if any of the plain files already have execute set, chmod assumes it’s intentional and keeps it. … Read more
This finds all non-text based, binary, and empty files. Edit Solution with only grep (from Mehrdad’s comment): grep -rIL . Original answer This does not require any other tool except find and grep: find . -type f -exec grep -IL . “{}” \; -I tells grep to assume binary files as unmatched -L prints only … Read more
Are you absolutely sure those individual files are not symbolic links? Rsync has a few useful flags such as -l which will “copy symlinks as symlinks”. Adding -l to your command: rsync -rtvpl /source/backup /destination I believe symlinks are skipped by default because they can be a security risk. Check the man page or –help … Read more
You’ll want to read about Git submodules.
. represents the directory you are in and .. represents the parent directory. From the dot definition: This is a short string (i.e., sequence of characters) that is added to the end of the base name (i.e., the main part of the name) of a file or directory in order to indicate the type of … Read more
Do the following: grep -Rnw ‘/path/to/somewhere/’ -e ‘pattern’ -r or -R is recursive ; use -R to search entirely -n is line number, and -w stands for match the whole word. -l (lower-case L) can be added to just give the file name of matching files. -e is the pattern used during the search Along … Read more
Use Directory.GetDirectories to get the subdirectories of the directory specified by “your_directory_path”. The result is an array of strings. var directories = Directory.GetDirectories(“your_directory_path”); By default, that only returns subdirectories one level deep. There are options to return all recursively and to filter the results, documented here, and shown in Clive’s answer. Avoiding an UnauthorizedAccessException It’s … Read more
Use System.IO.Directory.CreateDirectory Addtional note: You don’t have to check if it exists first. CreateDirectory will do the right thing regardless.