Bash Tips

Bash tips.sh

# extract only the filename without extension

for i in *.xhtml
do 
 filename=$(basename $i}); 
 extension=${filename##*.};
 filename=${filename%.*}; 
 wkhtmltopdf -O landscape -s A3 $i $filename'.pdf'; 
done

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#Delete large number of files:

ls|xargs -L 1000 rm

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# remove all files older than 7 days
find /path/to/directory* -mtime +7 -exec rm {} \;

# remove all *.py files younger than 30 minutes
find /path/to/directory* -name '*.py' -mmin -30 -exec rm {} \;

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