i have files in folders (git) titled like this
OrderReturnPartial_EN_${et.mode}.html
how can I rename all files in dir (and inner folders)
OrderReturnPartial_EN_${et.mode}.html
OrderReturnPartial_EN_my_mode.html
My try is like this
in the begging there's a var
read newmode
default="et.mode"
find /tmp/$newmode -name "*et.mode*" -print | while read FNAME;
do
mv "$FNAME" "${FNAME//$default/$newmode}";
done
also i tried
sed -i 's/{et.mode}/$newmode/g' $FNAME
doesn't work
If you want to replace ${et.mode}, use the full string as the variable value:
default='${et.mode}'
f='OrderReturnPartial_EN_${et.mode}.html'
echo "${f//$default/my_mode}"
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Question: In Git Bash on windows, how would you run the following in a way that it will also search folders with spaces in the name, and execute on files with spaces in the name?
$ find ./ -type f -name '*.png' -exec sh -c 'cwebp -q 75 $1 -o "${1%.png}.webp"' _ {} \;
Context I'm running Git Bash on windows, trying to execute a command on all found .png files to convert them to .webp format. It works for all files without spaces in the path, but it's failing to find files with spaces in the filename or files within folders that have spaces in the folder name.A few considerations:
I have many, many levels of folders to iterate through, and I can't run this command separately for each. I really need the recursion to work.I cannot change the folder names; it will break other dependencies (nor did I create the folder or filenames originally, so cut me some slack!)I arrived here by following the suggestions from this article: https://www.smashingmagazine.com/2018/07/converting-images-to-webp/the program, to my knowledge, doesn't ship with any built-in recursive command... golly that'd be handy
Any help you can provide will be appreciated. Thanks!
Im trying to use logrotate with very little experience, Currently working i have the files rotating, compressing and renaming into the same folder. Now i need instead of dropping the files in the same place, i need to have them dropped in another location. They also need to have the same folder structure and if it isn't there than it needs to create the new folder. All the compressed files need to be added and not override the existing files
I'm thinking that the olddir will drop them into a destination folder but not sure on how to have it drop it in the corresponding folder or create it if its not already there.
Example source
var/log/device1/*.log
var/log/device2/*.log
var/log/device3/*.log
Example Destination to drop .gz files into
opt/archive/device1/
opt/archvie/device2/
(needs to create opt/archive/device3 and put rotated file in here)
Didn't end up finding a way to move with logrotate but came up with script to do the same sort of thing. pretty simplistic and wont work for more than 1 level deep of subfolders.
#!/bin/bash
source="/opt/log/host"
destination="/opt/archive/"
for i in $(find $source -maxdepth 2 -type f -name "*.gz")
do
#removing /opt/log/host from string
dd="$( echo "$i" | sed -e 's#^/opt/log/host/##' )"
#removing everything after the first /
ff=$( echo "$dd" | cut -f1 -d"/" )
#setting the correct destination string
ee=$destination$dd
#create new folders if they do not exist
mkdir -p -- "$destination$ff"
#move files
mv $i $ee
done
Okay so I want to know how I would go about doing this, using grep to locate .txt files named "cocacola1", "cocacola2", "cocacola3" & then copying them to another directory. So searching for files named "cocacola" &/even if it contains other characters within the file name to then copy them to another directory/location.
You can just use unix find. Assuming the files you're searching for are in 'source' and you want to copy to 'destination':
find source -name '*cocacola*' -exec cp {} destination \;
I put the wildcard '*' before and after cocacola since you said other characters might exist in the file name.
First of all, this is my first post here and I must specify that I'm a total Linux newb.
We have recently bought a QNAP NAS box for the office, on this box we have a large amount of data which was copied off an old Mac XServe machine. A lot of files and folders originally had forward slashes in the name (HFS+ should never have allowed this in the first place), which when copied to the NAS were all replaced with a colon.
I now want to rename all colons to underscores, and have found the following commands in another thread here: pitfalls in renaming files in bash
However, the flavour of Linux that is on this box does not understand the rename command, so I'm having to use mv instead. I have tried using the code below, but this will only work for the files in the current folder, is there a way I can change this to include all subfolders?
for f in *.*; do mv -- "$f" "${f//:/_}"; done
I have found that I can find al the files and folders in question using the find command as follows
Files:
find . -type f -name "*:*"
Folders:
find . -type d -name "*:*"
I have been able to export a list of the results above by using
find . -type f -name "*:*" > files.txt
I tried using the command below but I'm getting an error message from find saying it doesn't understand the exec switch, so is there a way to pipe this all into one command, or could I somehow use the files I exported previously?
find . -depth -name "*:*" -exec bash -c 'dir=${1%/*} base=${1##*/}; mv "$1" "$dir/${base//:/_}"' _ {} \;
Thank you!
Vincent
So your for loop code works, but only in the current dir. Also, you are able to use find to build a file with all the files with : in the filename.
So, as you've already done all this, I would just loop over each line of your file, and perform the same mv command.
Something like this:
for f in `cat files.txt`; do mv $f "${f//:/_}"; done
EDIT:
As pointed out by tripleee, using a while loop is a better solution
EG
while read -r f; do mv "$f" "${f//:/_}"; done <files.txt
Hope this helps.
Will
This is what I have so far - my dropbox public URL creation script for a directory of public URLs (getdropbox.com - gpl I think). My LIST file was created using ls in the following fashion:
ls -d ~/Dropbox/Public/PUBLICFILES/* > LIST
dropboxpuburl.sh:
for PATH in `cat LIST`
do
echo $PATH
dropbox puburl $PATH > ~/URLLIST/$PATH
done
Now this creates a whole series of files - each with the dropbox puburl in them.
The question is: How can I cause this script to redirect all the public links into one text file, each on a new line - perhaps with the name PUBLIC-DIRECTORY-LIST?
Is this what you are trying to achieve?
for PATH in `cat LIST`
do
echo $PATH
dropbox puburl $PATH >> filename
done
OK, I've got it working using the suggestions given to me here:
for PATH in `cat LIST`
do
echo $PATH
dropbox puburl $PATH
done > PUBLIC-DIRECTORY-LIST
It creates a list of the directories, and below them the public link. Now it is time to prune the directories for a clean text file of links.
The => creates the files and adds something to the first line. >> appends to it on a new line.
echo txt=>PUBLIC-DIRECTORY-LIST.txt |
echo another text>>PUBLIC-DIRECTORY-LIST.txt
You should use while read with input redirection instead of for with cat filename. Also, in order to avoid variable name conflicts I changed your path variable to lowercase since the shell uses the all-caps one already. It won't affect your interactive shell, but it could affect something in your script.
Also, assuming that you want the lines from your input file to be displayed to the screen as a progress indicator, but not captured in your output file, this echo sends it to stderr.
while read path
do
echo $path >&2
dropbox puburl $path
done < LIST > PUBLIC-DIRECTORY-LIST