I would like to rename all directories under a basedir which match a name. For example:
In basedir/, I have:
- foo/bar/blah
- my/bar/foo
- some/bar/foo1
- other/foo/bar
I would like to rename all directories matching bar, but I would like to preserve the prefix part.
With find, I can easily make a list of all the directories like this:
find . -name repositoryunit -type d
However, how can I use -exec mv {} ... (or perhaps combine with another app) so that the prefix is preserved?
Many thanks in advance!
find . -depth -name bar -type d -execdir mv {} baz \;
-execdir changes directory to the parent before executing the command, so the mv here will be local to each parent directory.
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My folder structure looks like this:
|-20200912
-fringe
-other
|-20200915
-fringe
-other
...
And I want to delete the content of all folders called "fringe". How could I achieve this with one command?
I thought about something like this in pseudocode:
find . -name "fringe" -type d -exec rm <content>
You were close.
find . -name 'fringe' -type d -exec rm -rf {} +
This removes every directory named fringe and everything within them.
Single vs double quotes don't make a difference here, but generally prefer single quotes if you mean to pass something in verbatim (with the possible exception of when the thing you want to pass in contains literal single quotes).
If you want to remove the directory's contents, try
... -execdir sh -c 'rm '*' \;
You are looking to process the files and not the directory through rm and so I would use a regex that searches for for files with fringe in the directory path.
find -regex "^.*/fringe/.*$" -type f -exec rm '{}' \;
I would change the rm to ls to ensure that the results are expected before running the actual rm.
You can force gobbing in the exec command:
find -name fringe -type d -execdir sh -c 'rm {}/*' \;
What I want:
In a bash script: Find all files in current directory that contain a certain string "teststring" and cop them into a subfolder "./testfolder"
Found this to find the filenames which im looking for
find . -type f -print0 | xargs -0 grep -l "teststring"
..and this to copy found files to another folder (here selecting by strings in filename):
find . -type f -iname "stringinfilename" -exec cp {} ./testfolder/ \;
Whats the best way to combine both commands to achieve what I described at the top?
Just let find do both:
find . -name subdir -prune -o -type f -exec \
grep -q teststring "{}" \; -exec cp "{}" subdir \;
Note that things like this are much easier if you don't try to add to the directory you're working in. In other words, write to a sibling dir instead of writing to a subdirectory. If you want to wind up with the data in a subdir, mv it when you're done. That way, you don't have to worry about the prune (ie, you don't have to worry about find descending into the subdir and attempting to duplicate the work).
I have files named test.txt in different directories like this
./222/test.txt
./111/test.txt
I want to rename all test.txt to info.txt
I've tried using this
find . -type f -iname 'test.txt' -exec mv {} {}info \;
I get test.txtinfo
Your idea is right, but you need to use -execdir instead of just -exec to simplify this.
find . -type f -iname 'test.txt' -execdir mv {} info.txt ';'
This works like -exec with the difference that the given shell command is executed with the directory of the found pathname as its current working directory and that {} will contain the basename of the found pathname without its path. Also note that the option is a non-standard one (non POSIX compliant).
I just started to study Bash. I want to do a script to find some specific folders in a directory and its subdirectories and if it exist, rename it into the same folder where we have found it. The same specific folder can be in some subdirectories.
I use this:
file=`find . -name a`
if [ -d $file ]
then
rename 's/a/b/' $file
fi
But don't work. Is there anyway to do this process?
Thanks.
Finally, i solved the problem with this:
find . -name "a" -type d -execdir rename 's/a/b/' {} \; &>/dev/null
You can do this with oneliner:
find . -name "a" -type d -execdir rename 's/a/b/' {} \;
The parameter to name might be regex.
With -type d it will find all directories.
-execdir changes to a matching item's directory and then executes the rename command, passing the filename of the item at hand as an argument ({}).
I have a directory hierarchy, whose names do not follow a pattern. E.g.
parent
bcgegec
hfiwehfiuwe
huiwwuifegeufg
whegwgefyfeg
hfeohfeiofe
chidchuehugfe
dedewdewf
tegtgetg
gtgetgtg
and so on.
Inside some of such directories there is a file with "gr" extension. I need to find each of such files, cd to its dir and execute "gnuplot" command having the .gr file as argument. I tried the following to nest two find commands, but the {} of the inner one does not work as I need. The outer find should iterate for every directory, and the inner find should look for the presence of the .gr file.
find $parentDir -type d -exec sh -c '(cd {} && find . -maxdepth 1 -name *.gr -exec /usr/bin/gnuplot {} \;)' \;
Perhaps this is what you are looking for:
find . -type f -name "*.gr" -execdir /usr/bin/gnuplot {} \;
Read through man find for other useful information.