I tried to deploy my personal blog website to my remote server recently. When I tried to move a few files and directories to another place by executing mv, some unexpected errors happened. The command line echoed "Directory not Empty". After doing some googling, I tried again with '-f' switch or '-v', the same result showed.
I logged in on the root account, and the process is here:
root#danielpan:~# shopt -s dotglob
root#danielpan:~# mv /var/www/html/wordpress/* /var/www/html
mv: cannot move `/var/www/html/wordpress/wp-content` to `/var/www/html/wp-content`:
Directory not empty
root#danielpan:~# mv -f /var/www/html/wordpress/* /var/www/html
mv: cannot move `/var/www/html/wordpress/wp-content` to `/var/www/html/wp-content`:
Directory not empty
Anybody know why?
(I'm running Ubuntu 14.04)
If You have sub-directories and "mv" is not working:
cp -R source/* destination/
rm -R source/
I found the solution finally. Because the /var/www/html/wp-content already exists, then when you try to copy /var/www/html/wordpress/wp-content there, error of Directory not Empty happens. So you need to copy /var/www/html/wordpress/wp-content/* to /var/www/html/wp-content.
Just execute this:
mv /var/www/html/wordpress/wp-content/* /var/www/html/wp-content
rmdir /var/www/html/wordpress/wp-content
rmdir /var/www/html/wordpress
Instead of copying directories by cp or rsync, I prefer
cd ${source_path}
find . -type d -exec mkdir -p ${destination_path}/{} \;
find . -type f -exec mv {} ${destination_path}/{} \;
cd $oldpwd
moves files (actually renames them) and overwrites existing ones. So it's fast enough.
But when ${source_path} contains empty subfolders you can cleanup by rm -rf ${source_path}
Related
I tried to copy Copy directories and their subdirectories created a day ago as follows:
find /application/work/ -type d -mtime -1 -exec cp -r {} /tmp/backup \;
But it is copying all directories (Not only the ones created a day ago).
Would you please advise?
find is also finding the working directory /application/work/ and is copying it, see How to exclude this / current / dot folder from find "type d". Since you're executing cp -r, it recursively copies everything in . before also copying the subset of directories you've found via -mtime. You need to set the -mindepth to exclude the working directory from the paths on which find will operate.
Modify your command to:
find /application/work -mindepth 1 -type d -mtime -1 -exec cp -r {} /tmp/backup \;
I am trying to move all the *.csv files to another folder on server but every time i get access failed error , I am able to get all the files to local server using mget but mv fails everytime , i can see the file on the server and got full permissions on the files, sh script is not working with wild characters. struck here with the simple command .
Download to local directory
localDir="/home/toor/UCDownloads/"
[ ! -d $localDir ] && mkdir -p $localDir
#sftp in the file directory to be downloaded
remoteDir="/share/CACHEDEV1_DATA/Lanein1/Unicard/"
#The file to be downloaded is fileName
lftp -u ${sftp_user},${password} sftp://${host}:${port}<<EOF
PS4='$LINENO: '
set xfer:log true
set xfer:log-file "$logfileUCARC"
set xfer:clobber true
set xfer:auto-rename true
debug 9
cd ${remoteDir}
lcd ${localDir}
#mget *.CSV
ls -l
mv "/share/CACHEDEV1_DATA/Lanein1/Unicard/"*.csv "/share/CACHEDEV1_DATA/Lanein1/Unicard/Archives/"
#rm /share/CACHEDEV1_DATA/Lanein1/Unicard/!(*.pdf)
bye
EOF
This is not a shell or Bash problem. It is a LFTP problem.
From the manual of LFTP:
mv file1 file2
Rename file1 to file2. No wildcard expansion is performed.
LFTP just does not support what you asking for. It will treat *.csv as a part of the file name.
See here for an alternative.
I want to copy files matching a regex to another folder but while keeping part of the folder structure, All the filepaths will start with src/main/java/ buth the path before that is different for most files
I know that I can use
find . -iregex ".*HeadersConstants\.java" -exec cp {} ./destination/ \;
To copy a file but then I lose the file path in the destination dir
Are you on linux? Historically, cpio would have been an obvious choice but these days rsync is likely to be better:
find . -iregex ".*HeadersConstants\.java" |\
rsync -v --files-from=- ./ ${destination}/
It's probaby not a good idea for the destination to be inside . as your question code suggests but we can stop find looking there with:
find . -path ./destination -prune \
-o -iregex ".*HeadersConstants\.java" -print |\
rsync -v --file-from=- ./ ./destination/
(You may want to investigate why the -print is required.)
In the meantime I got it to work (probably not the cleanest way)
javaRe='(.*)\/src\/main\/java\/(.*)\/'
find . -name "HeadersConstants\.java" | while read f
do
if [[ ${f} =~ ${javaRe} ]]; then
path=${BASH_REMATCH[2]}
fullpath=${destination}${srcDir}${path}
mkdir -p "$fullpath"
cp "$f" "$fullpath"
fi
done
It may be a duplicate question but i could not find the solution for this i want to copy a last 3 months files AND subdirectories from one disk to andother but i could find only to listing the files by using the following command. I really don't know how to copy the files by using -mtime. I'm new to linux please help me.
find . -mtime -90 -exec cp {} targetdir \;
but how to copy directories with subdirectories and files too? (but do not use command rsync, i don;t have it with this instance) Regards S.
Copy needs a recursive option specified to handle the subdirectories
$ find testroot # shows some dirs and files
testroot
testroot/sub1
testroot/sub1/subtestfile
testroot/sub2
testroot/testf
$ find target # empty at this stage
target
$ find ./testroot/ -exec cp -R {} target/ \;
$ find target
target
target/sub1
target/sub1/subtestfile
target/sub2
target/subtestfile
target/testf
Say with a directory structure such as:
toplev/
file2.txt
file5.txt
midlev/
test.txt
anotherdirec/
other.dat
myfile.txt
furtherdown/
morefiles.txt
otherdirec/
myfile4.txt
file7.txt
How would you delete all files (not directories and not recursively) from the 'anotherdirec'? In this example it would delete 2 files (other.dat, myfile.txt)
I have tried the below command from within the 'midlev' directory but it gives this error (find: bad option -maxdepth find: [-H | -L] path-list predicate-list):
find anotherdirec/ -type f -maxdepth 1
I'm running SunOS 5.10.
rm anotherdirec/*
should work for you.
Rob's answer (rm anotherdirec/*) will probably work, but it is a bit verbose and generates a bunch of error messages. The problem is that you are using a version of find that does not support the -maxdepth option. If you want to avoid the error messages that 'rm anotherdirec/*' gives, you can just do:
for i in anotherdirec/*; do test -f $i && rm $i; done
Note that neither of these solutions will work if any of the files contain spaces or other special characters. You can put double quotes around $i if that is an issue.
Find is sensitive to options order. Try this:
find anotherdirec/ -maxdepth 1 -type f -exec rm {} \;
rm toplev/midlev/anotherdirec/* if you want to delete only files.
rm -rf toplev/midlev/anotherdirec/* if you want to delete files and lower directories