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Tuesday, March 22, 2016

recursively search and replace ambersands (or any character) in filenames

Replaces the ampersands with underscores in any file ending in .jpg (all subdirs)
find . -type f -iname "*.jpg" -exec rename 's/&/_/' {} \;
Same thing, but on systems that don't have 'rename' (like OS X)
find . -name '*.jpg' -type f -exec bash -c 'mv "$1" "${1/\/\&/_/}"' -- {} \;

Friday, March 11, 2016

wget a site for caching purposes (spider it)

Sometimes you want to crawl a site so that it gets cached on its server. This will "spider" a site and not download content
wget -r -l6 --spider -D mysite.com http://mysite.com/