skaarl

Hey I finally got to try this out and tbh I hit Enter without understanding the whole thing 🤭🤫 but anyway it's perfect! And it left me with a lot to study, your explanation was really helpful. Thanks so much for all your help! I really appreciate the time you spent :)

Yea, I just came back to say this. Since cp overwrites by default (I tried copying first before trying moving) and each folder has files named index001 index002 etc then then folder where they all go has only ONE of index001.html, ONE of index002.html etc. So I think what I need to do is find each html file, rename it with a unique integer in front of the name, move it to the common folder.

😍😍😍😍 thanks harsh!! I'll study this and report back. I really appreciate your time and effort. There is a lot to learn here, and actually the padding is on my list of things to learn, so thank you sensei! As to your question about the integers, the files need to be in alphabetical order before getting the integer prepended to them, so like

• folder1/file1
• folder1/file2
• folder2/file1
• folder2/file2
• folder2/file3

turns to

• folder1/001file1
• folder1/002file2
• folder2/003file1
• folder2/004file2
• folder2/005file3

that way in the folder when it's all said and done I'll have

• 001file1
• 002file2
• 003file1
• 004file2
• 005file3

I'll check if your method works out of the box for that or if I have to use the sort function like you showed me last time. Thanks again!

That was it! Thank you. I got rid of over 150 files in 127 directories with a lot less clicks than through the file explorer.

Luckily this time there were no spaces in the names. Spaces in names are a PITA at my stage of learning, and I'm never sure if I should use ' or ".

Btw, new challenge in the edited original post, if you haven't yet exhausted your thinking quota for the day lol.

Great tip, thank you!

Thanks so much harsh!!! I will study this and hit Enter after I understand it.

Thanks again, that's epic.

Yea that must be it! It's spitting out just the file name and not the whole path. There is only 1 level of depth, so I want to remove

• ./folder1/file 3
• ./folder1/file4
• ./folder2/file11
• ./folder2/file12

so how do I get the whole path into xargs? I tried xargs "$f"/ but fortunately that didn't work because it was trying to delete all the directories lmao XD

Oh I see, lol. Now I'm getting "Cannot remove: No such file or directory" all the way down! The files are there, I see them, they come up in the terminal, but for some reason xargs rm does not want to delete them. When I put the -f flag, rm doesn't give an error but the files are still there! wtf

Thank you for the tips, but now I'm getting "Cannot remove: No such file or directory" all the way down! The files are there, I see them, they come up in the terminal, but for some reason xargs rm does not want to delete them. When I put the -f flag, rm doesn't give an error but the files are still there! wtf

for f in *; do ls $f | tail -n 2 | xargs rm -rf; done

You mean like that? rm -rf followed by a question mark does not inspire confidence XD

Hey thanks for the info. Are you saying that just standard LineageOS without gapps or MicroG will be unable to have a functioning OsmAnd (for example)? I remember a few years ago you had to install Mozilla location services seperately from F-Droid to get OsmAnd to work without Google stuff, but I've personally been out of the loop for a while.

Thanks for the info ❤️