I have several parent folders like GJ1, GJ2 etc. Each of these folders contain three images like GJ11_F.jpg, GJ11_P.jpg. I need to only display all the GJ11_F.jpg files including their respective parent directories.
find . -type f -name "*_F.jpg" | xargs cp -t ~/home/ubuntu/
but the above command will only copy the *_F.jpg files and not their respective parent directories GJ1.
Is xargs not the one im supposed to try?
I have also tried -
find . -name "*_F.jpg" -exec sh -c 'rsync -a "${0%/*}" ~/home/ubuntu/' {} \;
One easy way is to use tar which will deal with the directories automatically:
find . -type f -name "*_F.jpg" -print0 | tar c --null -T - | tar xC ~/home/ubuntu/
And here's a solution with a while loop:
find . -type f -name "*_F.jpg" -print0 |
while IFS= read -r -d '' file; do
mkdir -p ~/home/ubuntu/"$(dirname -- "$file")"
cp -ai -- "$file" ~/home/ubuntu/"$file"
done
Related
I have one directory with many sub directories 1,2 and more levels deep with zip files.
Could you help me with command to unpack all the zip files in the subdirectories into one directory named /set/ ?
I am on Ubuntu
Use this from the parent directory to extratc all zip file to /set:
find . -name "*.zip" -print | xargs -I{} unzip -o {} -d /path/to/set
If you want no subdirectories in /set, you can use this from /set parent directory:
find . -mindepth 1 -type f -print0 | xargs -I{} mv {} /path/to/set
Currently, I am using this
unrar e -r *.rar
To extract files, however this puts everything in my root unraring folder. Current structure
/HomeFolder
/Nextlevel
/RarFolder
rarfile.rar
I want the output to be
/HomeFolder
/Nextlevel
raroutput.ext
How would I do change my command to do this?
Try to use following approach:
find /HomeFolder -type d -name 'RarFolder' -printf '%h\n' | xargs -I{} sh -c 'cd {}; unrar e -r *.rar'
It searches for all nested 'RarFolder' subdirectories in '/HomeFolder', running your unrar command from within subdir containing 'RarFolder' (i.e. '/HomeFolder/Nextlevel' in your example).
To extract files to parent directory of one, containing '*.rar' files, command can be adjusted as:
find /HomeFolder -type f -name '*.rar' -printf '%h\n' | xargs -I{} sh -c 'cd {}/..; unrar e -r *.rar'
I am trying to move about 700,000 .jpg files from one directory to another in my Ubuntu server. I tried the following:
xargs mv * -t /var/www/html/
and
echo (*.jpg|*.png|*.bmp) | xargs mv -t /var/www/html/
and
echo (*.jpg) | xargs mv -t /var/www/html/
and
find . -name "*.jpg" -print0 | xargs mv * ../
and they all give me the same error: /usr/bin/xargs: Argument list too long
what should I do? Please help me out. Thanks :)
If you use find I would recommend you to use the -exec attribute. So your result should be find . -name "*.jpg" -exec mv {} /home/new/location \;.
However I would recommend to check what the find command returns you, replacing the exec part with: -exec ls -lrt {} \;
Try:
find /path/to/old-directory -type f | xargs -i mv "{}" /path/to/new-directory
You could have tried:
for f in *.jpg do;
mv -tv $f /var/www/html/
done
for f in *.png do;
mv -tv $f /var/www/html/
done
for f in *.bmp do;
mv -tv $f /var/www/html/
done
also, you should carefully read xargs(1); I strongly suspect that
find . -name "*.jpg" -print0 | xargs -n 1000 -I '{}' mv '{}' ../
should work for you
At last, learn more about rename(1). It is probably enough for the job.
I have a folder in ~/Downloads with lots of
files and folders scattered. This consists of various files of different
extensions. I need to copy only the
.pdf files within various directories to ~/pdfs
Use find:
find ~/Downloads -type f -name "*.pdf" -exec cp {} ~/pdfs \;
if ~/pdfs exists in your system use the following command
cd ~/Downloads ; cp -r *.pdf ~/pdfs
if ~/pdfs does not exists in your system use the following command
cd ~/Downloads ; mkdir ~/pdfs ; cp -r *.pdf ~/pdfs
In order to deal with potential file names with spaces, etc., I would recommend this approach:
find ~/Downloads/. -type f -name "*.pdf" -print0 | xargs -0 -I_ cp _ ~/pdfs/.
I have a directory with unknown number of subdirectories and unknown level of sub*directories within them. How do I copy all the file swith the same suffix to a new directory?
E.g. from this directory:
> some-dir
>> foo-subdir
>>> bar-sudsubdir
>>>> file-adx.txt
>> foobar-subdir
>>> file-kiv.txt
Move all the *.txt files to:
> new-dir
>> file-adx.txt
>> file-kiv.txt
One option is to use find:
find some-dir -type f -name "*.txt" -exec cp \{\} new-dir \;
find some-dir -type f -name "*.txt" would find *.txt files in the directory some-dir. The -exec option builds a command line (e.g. cp file new.txt) for every matching file denoted by {}.
Use find with xargs as shown below:
find some-dir -type f -name "*.txt" -print0 | xargs -0 cp --target-directory=new-dir
For a large number of files, this xargs version is more efficient than using find some-dir -type f -name "*.txt" -exec cp {} new-dir \; because xargs will pass multiple files at a time to cp, instead of calling cp once per file. So there will be fewer fork/exec calls with the xargs version.