I need to do some testing and need the same file names as I have in directory /home/recordings in /home/testing folder.
For example, if i have a file recording01.mp4 in /home/recordings, i would want to have the an empty file recording01.txt or recording01.mp4 or in /home/testing
I understand I can use the following command?
for i in /home/recordings/*; do touch "$i"; done
Not sure how to specify extension or the destination directory in this case?
A simple addition of /home/testing/ to touch command will do it.
for i in /home/recordings/*; do
temp=`echo $i|cut -f3 -d'/'`
cd /home/testing/
touch "$temp";
cd ../..
done
I assume you are not in home directory and running this script file from anywhere else.
You can also do this without a loop
find /home/recordings/ -type f -printf /home/testing/%f'\n' | xargs -n1 touch
Try this:
for i in /home/recordings/*; do touch "/home/testing/$i"; done
You need only specify absolute paths and things will work fine. A bunch of 0-length files are created, their names corresponding to those in /home/recordings.
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Maybe i'm just going about this wrong and making it harder than it has to be.
This is my problem. I have 2 different scripts that download various picture files. the first downloads from email and the downloaded files go into the /attachments/ directory. The second script copies the contents of google drive, all files and folders get copied into ~/gdrive/ directory. i want to be able to move all picture files from both these folders as well as any subfolders to ~/Pictures/$today and prevent any overwriting in the case of duplicate file names. I don't mind having 2 separate scripts to handle the pictures in the 2 different directories, but I do need it to be able to get all files in subdirectories of the starting point. it also needs to be able to handle a variety of file extensions. my current solution adds a numbered extension such as .~1~ after the files normal extension .jpg, .png, .tiff, etc. I dont lose any files this way but any that wind up with a backup number after the extension are rendered useless to my project. This is what I am currently using
TODAY=$(date +"%m-%d-%Y")
mkdir -p ~/Pictures/$TODAY &&
sudo find /attachments -type f -exec mv --backup=numbered -t ~/Pictures/$TODAY {} +
My result if there are duplicate file names looks like this:
DSC07286.JPG
DSC07286.JPG.~1~
Is there a better approach than what i am doing? Is there a way to dissect the filename parts and reorganize them and do it recursively for all files in the directory? Thanks
Something like this should do it (untested; uses standard lowercase variable names and puts the index just before the extension to not mess with sorting):
for path in ~/Pictures/"$today"/*.JPG
do
index=0
for duplicate_path in "$path".~[0-9]*
do
new_path="${duplicate_path%%.*}${index}.JPG"
echo "$duplicate_path" "$new_path"
((++index))
done
done
When you're confident it's doing the right thing, simply replace echo with mv to actually move the files.
Here is my solution.
#!/bin/bash
TODAY=$(date +"%m-%d-%Y")
NOW=$(date +"%D %T")
sudo mkdir -p /home/pi/Pictures/emailpics/$TODAY &&
sudo find /attachments -type f -exec mv --backup=numbered -t /home/pi/Pictures/emailpics/$TODAY/ {} + &&
for f in /home/pi/Pictures/emailpics/$TODAY/*.~?~
do
fullfilename=$f
filepath=$(dirname "$fullfilename")
filename=$(basename "$fullfilename")
fname="${filename%.*}"
bkpnum="${filename##*.}"
file="${fname%.*}"
ext="${fname##*.}"
sudo mv $f $filepath/$file$bkpnum.$ext
done
Can't say i fully understand all the syntax for the parsing bits, but it works. maybe someone else can explain what is going on.
I am trying to move specific files from one folder to another. Would the below work?
mkdir test
touch test1.sh
touch test2.sh
touch test3.sh
mkdir test2
find test/ | xargs -I% mv % test2
I think this can work:
find ./ -name "test*.sh" | xargs -I% mv % test2
There is somethin odd in your example:
If test1 does not contain any subdirectories, or if you want to move the subdirectories as they are, you could simply do a
mv test1/* test2
(Note that this would (by default) not move entries which start with a period. If this is a problem, you either should consider not using Posix shell but, say, bash or Zsh, or indeed could use find, for the safe side with the -prune option) .
The problem starts with subdirectories. The output of find contains all directories along with the files at the end. The mv inside the xargs would then move, say, a directory test1/foo, and if it later wants to process a file test1/foo/bar/baz.txt, the file is not here anymore. The overall effect would be that you would have moved all the subdirectory (as in my first solution which does not need find), but get in addition plenty of error messages.
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
$() is for command substitution(in other words it expand the expression inside it)
/*/ wild card for matching any directory, you can replace this with any wild card expression
*.fna is for finding any file with.fna extension
-type f is for getting the full path info of the located file
-i in mv is for prompt before overwrite( extra caution in case the wild card exp was wrong)
-v for verbose
-t for destination
NOTE: the above flags are not mandatory
Hope this helps
I have a directory that is filled with subdirectories exceeding 450 GBs. Inside of these subdirectories is an instruction file in each subdirectory. I have a script that copies the instruction file in the directory I am currently in and puts it inside every subdirectory via:
#!/bin/bash
for d in */; do cp "INSTALLATION INSTRUCTIONS.rtf" "$d"; done
I need to remove all of these files in the subdirectories and replace them with new instructions. Can I simple write another script that does this:
#!/bin/bash
for d in */; do rm "INSTALLATION INSTRUCTIONS.rtf" "$d"; done
I am very hesitant and wanted to make sue as these files are vitally important and I don't want to accidentally remove anything and making a backup of 450+ GBs is very taxing.
find . -mindepth 2 -name "INSTALLATION INSTRUCTIONS.rtf" -exec rm -f '{}' +
Since this is "vitally important" data, I would first list all files that match the file name you want to delete/overwrite, without taking any action on it (other than listing):
find /folder/ -type f -name "INSTALLATION INSTRUCTIONS.rtf" -print > /tmp/holder
That would create a list of matches on /tmp/holder. Then you could analyze this list before taking any action (either visually or programatically) to make sure that the list does not include anything you don't want to delete (when dealing with big amounts of data, strange things can happen, so be proactive on protecting the data).
If you are happy with what the list shows, then you could delete the old instructions, or if possible, overwrite them with the new file. Here's an example to overwrite the old file with the new one:
while read -r line; do cp --no-preserve=all /folder/newfile "$line"; done < /tmp/holder
The cp --no-preserve=all command (available on GNU bash) would ensure that the new file has permissions that are "adequate" to the folder where they are located. You may change that to a simple cp if you don't want that to happen.
There is need that I want to rename file in Linux if file exist in a single command.
Suppose I want to search test.text file and I want to replace it with test.text.bak then I fire the following command
find / -name test.text
if it exist then I fire the command
mv test.text test.text.bak
In this scenario I am executing two commands but I want this should be happen in single command.
Thanks
Just:
mv test.text test.test.bak
If the file doesn't exist nothing will be renamed.
To supress the error message, when no file exits, use that syntax:
mv test.text test.test.bak 2>/dev/null
If you want to find test.txt somewhere in a subdirectory of dir and move it, try
find dir -name test.txt -exec mv {} {}.bak \;
This will move all files matching the conditions. If you want to traverse from the current directory, use . as the directory instead of dir.
Technically, this will spawn a separate command in a separate process for each file matched by find, but it's "one command" in the sense that you are using find as the only command you are actually starting yourself. (Think of find as a crude programming language if you will.)
for FILE in `find . -name test.test 2>/dev/null`; do mv $FILE $FILE.bak; done
This will search all the files named "test.test" in current as well as in child direcroties and then rename each file to .bak