I'm using cygwin on my PC and I'm looking to move all .nef files in /pictures/ (and sub directories) into a new directory, BUT I want to keep the directory name that the nef files came from.
ie /pictures/vacation2012/image01.nef
and
/pictures/vac09/image01.nef
should go into
/pictures/nef/vac09/
and
/pictures/nef/vacation2012/
You can do it like this:
$ cd from_directory
$ (tar cf - `find . -name "*.nef"`) | (cd to_directory; tar xf - )
$ find . -name "*.nef" -exec rm -rf {} \; # be careful with this...
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I know there are dozen of questions about similar topcis but I still can't beat this up.
I need to copy all .svn directories recursively from /var/foo to /var/foo2 on a Debian machine:
/var/www/foo/.svn
/var/www/foo/bar/.svn
...
I tried these two commands without success:
find /var/foo -name ".svn" -type f -exec cp {} ./var/foo2 \;
find /var/foo -name ".svn" -type d -exec cp {} /var/foo2 \;
Once only the svn directory right inside foo is copied, while another time nothing is copied.
Given following file structure:
./
./a/
./a/test/
./a/test/2
./b/
./b/3
./test/
./test/1
Running following script in the directory to be copied:
find -type d -iname test -exec sh -c 'mkdir -p "$(dirname ~/tmp2/{})"; cp -r {}/ ~/tmp2/{}' \;
Should copy all test directories to ~/tmp2/.
Points of interest:
Directories are copied to the destination on a one-by-one basis
Parent directories are created in advance so that cp doesn't complain about target not existing
Rather than just cp, cp -r is used
The whole command is wrapped with sh -c so that operations on {} such as dirname can be performed (so that the shell expands it for each directory separately, rather than expanding it once during calling the find)
Resulting structure in ~/tmp2:
./
./a/
./a/test/
./a/test/2
./test/
./test/1
So all you should need to do is to replace test with .svn and ~/tmp2 with directory of choice. Just remember about running it in the source directory, instead of using absolute paths.
I find that using tar for such operations makes the code often much more readable:
$ mkdir /var/www/foo2
$ cd /var/www/foo2
$ find ../foo/ -type d -name .svn -exec tar c \{\} \+ | \
tar x --strip-components=1
find will list all directories named .svn, and call tar to create (c) an archive file (that is sent to stdout) with all these directories. the archive on stdout is then extracted (x) by another tar instance in the target directory. the relative path portion (../) is automatically removed by the archiving tar, but since we also want to remove the first path component (foo/) we need to add --strip-components.
Note: This will only work if you do not have very many .svn directories you want to copy (more than $(getconf ARG_MAX)-2, which on my system is more than 200000).
I want to move all files and directories are located on /etc/ that are older than 90 days to /old-etc directory but with the same structure in the source directory.
Thanks
Try doing this :
find /etc -mtime +90 -type f -exec bash -c 'install -D "$1" "/old-etc/$1" && rm -f "$1"' -- {} \;
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 project in Linux. I want to create a file named index.html in all folders.
So I have used the following command:
find . -type d -exec touch {}/index.html \;
It's working! Now I'm trying to copy the existing file from a given location and it to be automatically replaced into all the folders of my project.
This should actually work exactly in the same way:
find . -type d -exec cp $sourcedir/index.html {}/index.html \;
If I understand your question correctly, what you want is to copy a given file in all the directories.
You can use a similar find command :
find . -type d -exec cp -f /tmp/index.html {} \;
where /tmp/index.html is path to the original file (replace it with your own path).
Also, you don't need to create the files if your final objective is to replace them with the original file.
tar -cvzf index.tar.gz `find . -type f -iname 'index.html'` && scp index.tar.gz USER#SERVER:/your/projec/root/on/SERVER && ssh USER#SERVER "tar -xvzf index.tar.gz"
Or if you're in the proper directory localhost, and rsync is available:
rsync -r --exclude='**' --include='**/index.html' . USER#SERVER:/your/projec/root/on/SERVER
HTH
I have a a directory with zip archives containing .jpg, .png, .gif images. I want to unzip each archive taking the images only and putting them in a folder with the name of the archive.
So:
files/archive1.zip
files/archive2.zip
files/archive3.zip
files/archive4.zip
Open archive1.zip - take sunflower.jpg, rose_sun.gif. Make a folder files/archive1/ and add the images to that folder, so files/archive1/folder1.jpg, files/archive1/rose_sun.gif. Do this to each archive.
I really don't know how this can be done, all suggestions are welcome. I have over 600 archives and an automatic solution would be a lifesaver, preferably a linux solution.
In Short
You can do this with a one-liner find + unzip.
find . -name "*.zip" -type f -exec unzip -jd "images/{}" "{}" "*.jpg" "*.png" "*.gif" \;
In Detail
unzip allows you to specify the files you want:
unzip archive.zip "*.jpg" "*.png" "*.gif"
And -d a target directory:
unzip -d images/ archive.zip "*.jpg" "*.png" "*.gif"
Combine that with a find, and you can extract all the images in all zips:
find . -name "*.zip" -type f -exec unzip -d images/ {} "*.jpg" "*.png" "*.gif" \;
Using unzip -j to junk the extraction of the zip's internal directory structure, we can do it all in one command. This gives you the flat image list separated by zip name that you desire as a one-liner.
find . -name "*.zip" -type f -exec unzip -jd "images/{}" "{}" "*.jpg" "*.png" "*.gif" \;
A limitation is that unzip -d won't create more than one new level of directories, so just mkdir images first. Enjoy.
7zip can do this, and has a Linux version.
mkdir files/archive1
7z e -ofiles/archive1/ files/archive1.zip *.jpg *.png *.gif
(Just tested it, it works.)
Something along the lines of:
#!/bin/bash
cd ~/basedir/files
for file in *.zip ; do
newfile=$(echo "${file}" | sed -e 's/^files.//' -e 's/.zip$//')
echo ":${newfile}:"
mkdir tmp
rm -rf "${newfile}"
mkdir "${newfile}"
cp "${newfile}.zip" tmp
cd tmp
unzip "${newfile}.zip"
find . -name '*.jpg' -exec cp {} "../${newfile}" ';'
find . -name '*.gif' -exec cp {} "../${newfile}" ';'
cd ..
rm -rf tmp
done
This is tested and will handle spaces in filenames (both the zip files and the extracted files). You may have collisions if the zip file has the same file name in different directories (you can't avoid this if you're going to flatten the directory structure).
You can write a program using a zip library. If you do Mono, you can use DotNetZip.
The code would look like this:
foreach (var archive in listOfZips)
{
using (var zip = ZipFile.Read(archive)
{
foreach (ZipEntry e in zip)
{
if (IsImageFile(e.FileName))
{
e.FileName = System.IO.Path.Combine(archive.Replace(".zip",""),
System.IO.Path.GetFileName(e.FileName));
e.Extract("files");
}
}
}
}
Perl's Archive-Zip is a good library for zipping/unzipping.
Here's my take on the first answer...
#!/bin/bash
cd files
for zip_name in *.zip ; do
dir_name=$(echo "${zip_name}" | sed -e 's/^files.//' -e 's/.zip$//')
mkdir ${dir_name}
7z e -o${dir_name}/ ${zip_name} *.jpg *.png *.gif
done
or, if you'd just like to use the regular unzip command...
unzip -d ${dir_name}/ ${zip_name} *.jpg *.png *.gif
I haven't tested this, but it should work... or something along these lines. Definitely more efficient than the first solution. :)
Hope this helps!