Use find to copy files to a new folder - linux

Question

I'm searching for a find command to copy all wallpaper files that look like this:
3245x2324.png (All Numbers are just a placeholder)
3242x3242.jpg
I'm in my /usr/share/wallpapers folder and there are many sub folders with the files I want to copy.
There are many like "screenshot.png" and these files I don't want to copy.
My find command is like this:
find . -type f -name "*????x????.???"
If I search with this I get the files I wanted to see, but if I combine this with -exec cp:
find . -type f -name "*????x????.???" -exec cp "{}" /home/mine/Pictures/WP \;
the find command only copies 10 files and there are 77 (I counted with wc).
Does anyone know what I'm doing wrong?

Answer 1

You can look it up if you follow the link.
renaming with find
You can use -exec to do this. But i'm not sure you can do rename and copy in one take.Maybe with a script that got executed after every find result.
But that's only a suggestion.

Answer 2

One idea/approach is to copy absolute path of the file in question to the destination, but replace the / with an underscore _ since / is not allowed in file names, at least in a Unix like environment.
With find and bash, Something like.
find /usr/share/wallpapers -type f -name "????x????.???" -exec bash -c '
destination=/home/mine/Pictures/WP/
shift
for f; do
path_name=${f%/*}
file_name=${f##*/}
echo cp -vi -- "$f" "$destination${path_name//\//_}$file_name"
done' _ {} +
See understanding-the-exec-option-of-find
With globstar nullglob shell option and Associative array from the bash shell to avoid the duplicate filenames.
#!/usr/bin/env bash
shopt -s globstar nullglob
pics=(/usr/share/wallpapers/**/????x????.???)
shopt -u globstar nullglob
declare -A dups
destination=/home/mine/Pictures/WP/
for i in "${pics[#]}"; do
((!dups["${i##*/}"]++)) &&
echo cp -vi -- "$i" "$destination"
done
GNU cp(1) has the -u flag/option which might come in handy along the way.
Remove the echo if you're satisfied with the result.
Another option is to add a trailing ( ) with a number/int inside it and increment it , e.g. ????x????.???(N) where N is a number/int. Pretty much like how some gui file manager deals with duplicate file/directory names.
Something like:
#!/usr/bin/env bash
source=/usr/share/wallpapers/
destination=/home/mine/Pictures/WP/
while IFS= read -rd '' file; do
counter=1
file_name=${file##*/}
if [[ ! -e "$destination$file_name" && ! -e "$destination$file_name($counter)" ]]; then
cp -v -- "$file" "$destination$file_name"
elif [[ -e "$destination$file_name" && ! -e "$destination$file_name($counter)" ]]; then
cp -v -- "$file" "$destination$file_name($counter)"
elif [[ -e "$destination$file_name" && -e "$destination$file_name($counter)" ]]; then
while [[ -e "$destination$file_name($counter)" ]]; do
((counter++))
done
cp -v -- "$file" "$destination$file_name($counter)"
fi
done < <(find "$source" -type f -name '????x????.???' -print0)
Note that the -print0 primary is a GNU/BSD find(1) feature.