Yes, I see your point. Very true about “moving to the right”.

“People need to vote, and they need to vote effectively. If you’ve got ranked choice, great, vote for the candidates that represent your views the best. If you have a first past the post system, then you need to vote for the least worst candidate that can actually win, even if they don’t align with your morals or ethics.”

This I think is one thing what Progressives in America have been working on, without the help of the Democrats (also healthcare, labour protection etc.). Then when the election comes, Democrats are surprised they did not get more votes and did not motivate people to the polls. Then they blame Progressives, who they have been ignoring, for not voting for them even though Republicans have a worse guy. So, Democrats don’t serve the poeple and are sad when they don’t get votes, is that right? Also, Democrats only listen to campaign advice from donors, even though donors are not a majority of the base… and then surprised when they get less votes? It just seems absurd to blame anyone but the Party. It is plain and simple bad politicking. Even blaming Trump supporters makes more sense, but they might actually fight back.

Did you vote for Kamala? Or did you allow trump to get elected? Guess what, your hands are stained with innocent blood either way.

What is the point of this? You are saying the vote didn’t matter and berating the person for (your assumption) their vote at the same time.

You Americans need to unite, not squabble like this. Unless of course you are supporting Trump’s agenda, then it is good to squabble and make sure people stay divided.

Isn’t this like shouting at the cashier because the supplier raised the prices?

Fortunately I don’t live under Democracy with American Characteristics (and may be I am missing something here) but I am pretty sure there is a huge machination behind the “sacrifice countless numbers of people to do it” that has nothing to with you or the person you comment to. Seems like you are on the same side.

A lot of these comments in this post seem insane but what it looks like is that non-principled people just can not understand principled people. The non-principled people hurt themselves (and many others) in their confusion.

This is such a strange take, but a popular one among Americans it seems. There are many more elements to why Trump is president, structural incentives especially money in politics and the specific democratic process that involves the Electoral College, districts etc. I’m not American yet even I know about these… don’t you guys? It’s sad because it seems like you guys are fucked, and have no idea what you did wrong. The burgler is in the house and you all are trying to wrestle down a potted plant.

It’s also absurd because the US markets itself as the world leader of democracy, but Democratic voters are saying, “Why didn’t you vote with the Party? You shouldn’t have exercised democracy!”

I know you don’t speak for all Americans, but maybe you can shed some light on this.

That makes sense, thanks!

Monero has some of the least volatility of all the coins. I’m not really sure how that happens, maybe because it’s not on major exchanges so not subject to speculation, aside from having an actual use case.

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.

Ok, thanks for the tip. I’m still getting used to Lemmy.

I ended up using

for f in *; do find ./“$f” -type f | sort | tail -n 2 | xargs -n 1 rm; done

and it worked perfectly. For the bonus question, I’m moving the html files from 127 subfolders. They are the only content of the subfolders. I want to prepend an integer to each and copy them to a different folder, so instead of

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

I’ll have

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

😍😍😍😍 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.

Hmm, thanks. It’s gonna take a while to unpack this ':D

There are no newlines in the names, and all spaces have been replaced with a dash.

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

Can find be used with tail?

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