Useful code snippets.

Mount Owl on Emu

• sudo mount -t cifs -o username=USERNAME //owl.fish.washington.edu/web ~/Documents/owl/

Recursively change permissions of all subdirectories in a directory.

• find /path/to/base/dir -type d -exec chmod 755 {} +

Copy files matching some pattern, including subdirectories

• find src/ -type f -name "*.suffix" | xargs -i cp {} dst/

Hide Standard Output and direct it towards a file (Useful for hiding things in R notebooks to avoid pagebreaking lengths)

• command &> file.name

Copy file from remote computer to local computer over ssh (the converse works as well)

• scp username@ip.address:/directory/to/file.name local/directory/for/file.name

Count number of files in a directory recursively

• find DIR_NAME -type f | wc -l