I'm using a single line in cygwin to move files from a list to another folder.
$ for file in $(cat list.txt); do mv "$file" destination; done
Half the files are fine and go where they belong but the rest provide the error "mv: cannot stat 'filename.pdf'$'\r': No such file or directory".
How do I get around this error so the remaining files will move?
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I am using the following script to turn a folder of 100000 .jpg photos into 10 folders of 10000 .jpg photos.
i=0; for f in *; do d=dir_$(printf %03d $((i/10000+1))); mkdir -p $d; mv "$f" $d; let i++; done
It works great besides one problem:
Filenames that have Spanish characters in them, such as Jalapeños.jpg, cause this to be thrown:
mv: rename Jalapeños.jpg to dir_001/Jalapeños.jpg: No such file or directory.
Every single file that this has happened to is now completely missing. Can anyone confirm what happened here or know where my files are? Are they deleted somehow?
As a rather novice Linux user, I can't seem to find how to do this.
I am trying to move unique files all in one directory into another directory.
Example:
$ ls
vehicle car.txt bicycle.txt airplane.html train.docx (more files)
I want car.txt, bicycle.txt, airplane.html, and train.docx inside vehicle.
Right now I do this by moving the files individually:
$ mv car.txt vehicle
$ mv bicycle.txt vehicle
...
How can I do this in one line?
You can do
mv car.txt bicycle.txt vehicle/
(Note that the / above is unnecessary, I include it merely to ensure that vehicle is a directory.)
You can test this as follows:
cd #Move to home directory
mkdir temp #Make a temporary directory
touch a b c d #Make test (empty) files ('touch' also updates the modification date of an existing file to the current time)
ls #Verify everything is there
mv a b c d temp/ #Move files into temp
ls #See? They are gone.
ls temp/ #Oh, there they are!
rm -rf temp/ #DESTROY (Be very, very careful with this command)
Shorthand command to move all .txt file
You can try using a wildcard. In the code below, * will match all the files which have any name ending with .txt or .docx, and move them to the vehicle folder.
mv *.txt *.docx vehicle/
If you want to move specific files to a directory
mv car.txt bicycle.txt vehicle/
Edit: As mentioned in a comment, If you are moving files by hand, I suggest using mv -i ... which will warn you in case the destination file already exists, giving you a choice of not overwriting it. Other 'file destroyer' commands like cp & rm too have a -i option
mv command in linux allow us to move more than one file into another directory. All you have to do is write the name of each file you want to move, seperated by a space.
Following command will help you:
mv car.txt bicycle.txt airplane.html train.docx vehicle
or
mv car.txt bicycle.txt airplane.html train.docx vehicle/
both of them will work.
You can move multiple files to a specific directory by using mv command.
In your scenario it can be done by,
mv car.txt bicycle.txt airplane.html train.docx vehicle/
The point you must note is that the last entry is the destination and rest everything except mv is source.
One another scenario is that the destination is not present in our directory,then we must opt for absolute path in place of vehicles/.
Note: Absolute path always starts from / ,which means we are traversing from root directory.
I have written a small bash script that will move multiple files(matched using pattern) present in multiple directories(matched using pattern) to a single location using mv and find command in bash
#!/bin/bash
for i in $(find /path/info/*/*.fna -type f) # find files and return their path
do
mv -iv $i -t ~/path/to/destination/directory # move files
done
$() is for command substitution(in other words it expand the expression inside it)
/*/ wild card for matching any directory, you can replace this with any wild card expression
*.fna is for finding any file with.fna extension
-type f is for getting the full path info of the located file
-i in mv is for prompt before overwrite( extra caution in case the wild card exp was wrong)
-v for verbose
-t for destination
NOTE: the above flags are not mandatory
Hope this helps
I have a series of numbered sub-directories that may or may not contain zip files, and within those zip files are some single-line .txt files I need. Is it possible to use a combination of find and unzip -p to list the file path and the single line contents on the same output line? I'd like to save the results to a .txt and import it into excel to work with.
From the main directory I can successfully find and output the single line:
find . -name 'file.zip' -exec unzip -p {} file.txt \;
How can I prefix the find output (i.e. the file path) to the output of this unzip command? Ideally, I'd like each line of the text file to resemble:
./path/to/file1.zip "Single line of file1.txt file"
./path/to/file2.zip "Single line of file2.txt file"
and so on. Can anyone provide some suggestions? I'm not very experienced with linux command line beyond simple commands.
Thank you.
Put all the code you want to execute into a shell script, then use the exec feature to call the shell script, i.e.
cat finder.bash
#!/bin/bash
printf "$# : " # prints just the /path/to/file/file.zip
unzip -p "$#" file.txt
For now, get that to work, you can make it generic to pass others besides file.txt later.
Make the script executable
chmod 755 finder.bash
Call it from find. i.e.
find . -name 'file.zip' -exec /path/to/finder.bash {} \;
(I don't have an easy way to test this, so reply in comments with error msgs).
Is it possible to get around this problem?
I have a situation where I need to move some files to 1 directory below.
/a/b/c/d/e/f/g
problem is that the filename inside g/ directory is the same as the directory name
and I receive the following error:
mv: cannot overwrite directory `../297534' with non-directory
Example:
/home/user/data/doc/version/3766/297534 is a directory, inside there is a also a file named 297534
so I need to move this file to be inside /home/user/data/doc/version/3766
Command
This is what I am running: (in a for loop)
cd /home/user/data/doc/version/3766/297534
mv * ../
You can't force mv to overwrite a directory with a file with the same name. You'll need to remove that file before you use your mv command.
Add one more layer in your loop.
Replace mv * ../ with
for f in `ls`; do rm -rf ../$f; mv $f ..; done
This will ensure that any conflict will be deleted first, assuming that you don't care about the directory you're overwriting.
Note that this will blow up if you happen to have a file inside the current directory which matches the current directory's name. For example, if you're in /home/user/data/doc/version/3766/297534 and you're trying to move a directory called 297534 up. One workaround to this is to add a long suffix to every file, so there's little chance of a match
for f in `ls`; do mv $f ../${f}_abcdefg; done
I have thousands of file with file extensions like this
3_bedroom_villas_in_chennai.html__201308050010_
3_bedroom_villas_in_chennai.html__201308080012_
3_bedroom_villas_in_chennai.html__201308100012_
3_bedroom_villas_in_chennai.html__201308110034_ and so on.....
inside a directory. I wanna change all these into the following
3_bedroom_villas_in_chennai__201308050010_.html
3_bedroom_villas_in_chennai__201308080012_.html
3_bedroom_villas_in_chennai__201308100012_.html
3_bedroom_villas_in_chennai__201308110034_.html
When I tried doing it in windows using the following command
ren *.* *.html
I got the following
A duplicate file name exists, or the file
cannot be found.
A duplicate file name exists, or the file
cannot be found.
A duplicate file name exists, or the file
cannot be found.
A duplicate file name exists, or the file
cannot be found. and so on...
Because I know that it will try to change everything into a single file name like
3_bedroom_villas_in_chennai.html and so on...
any ways to do this either on windows or linux ??
In Linux:
ls | xargs -I % mv % %.html
ls command output is piped to xargs, and xargs replaces all % (after mv) with the input from ls
Also, if you want recursively go through all sub-directories, you might want to use:
find . -type f | xargs -I % mv % %.html
And in Windows:
for /r %x in (*) do ren "%x" *.txt
using renamer:
$ renamer --regex --find '(.*).html(.*)' --replace '$1$2.html' *
Works on Windows, Mac and Linux.