Could you please help me with find syntax. I'm trying to replicate the effect of this command, which opens all files in each of the specified subdirectories:
open mockups/dashboard/* mockups/widget/singleproduct/* mockups/widget/carousel/*
I'd like to make it work for any set of subdirectories below mockups.
I can show all subdirectories with:
find mockups -type d -print
But I'm not sure how to use xargs to add in the "*". Also, I don't want to separately execute open for each file with "-exec open {} \;", because that launches 50 different copies of Preview, when what I need is one instance of Preview with the 50 files loaded into it.
Thanks!
The version of find I have at hand allows to specify a + sign after the -exec argument:
From the man page:
-exec command {} +
This variant of the -exec action runs the specified command on the
selected files, but the command line is built by appending each
selected file name at the end; the total number of invocations of
the command will be much less than the number of matched files.
The command line is built in much the same way that xargs builds
its command lines. Only one instance of `{}' is allowed within
the command. The command is executed in the starting directory.
That means that as few instances of open will be executed as possible, e.g.:
find mockups -type f -exec open {} +
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I want to grep in multiple sub directories, eg.
find subdir1 subdir2 -type f ( -name *.cc -o -name *.h ) -exec grep -e someString {} +
using emacs interactive rgrep. Is this possible? The rgrep in grep.el says:
but when I get to the "Base directory:" input, I can't figure out how to input more than 1 directory.
Is it possible to input more than 1 directory?
Thank you.
You can pass prefix arguments to rgrep to modify the command.
C-uM-x rgrep will take you through the normal prompts and then let you edit the result, at which point you can simply add the additional directories you wish to search to the initial find command.
C-uC-uM-x rgrep just gives you a bare template to edit immediately.
If all of the files are in sub-directories of a project, you might consider using the emacs projectile module. It handles multi-directory searching quickly and painlessly within a project.
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!
I'm very very very new to programming and trying to learn how to make tedious analysis tasks a little faster. I have a master folder (Master) with 50 experiment folders and within each experiment folder are another set of folders holding text files. I want to extract 2 lines from one of the text fiels (experiment title on line 7, slope on line 104) and copy them to a new single file.
So far, all I have learned is how to extract the lines and add to a new file.
sed -n '7p; 104 p' reco.txt >> results.txt
How can I extract these two lines from all files 'reco.txt' in the subfolder of the folder 'Master' and export into a single text file?
As much explanation as you can bear would be great to help me learn.
You can use find in combination with xargs for this. On its own, you can get a list of all relevant files:
find . -name reco.txt -print
This finds all files named reco.txt in the current directory (.) or any subdirectories and writes them to standard output.
Now, normally you can use the -exec argument to find, which will run a program for each file found, except that typically multiple results are combined into a single execution (appended to the command line). Your particular invocation of sed only works on one file at a time.
So, instead of -exec, you can use xargs which is essentially the same thing but with more control.
find Master -name reco.txt -print0 | xargs -0 -n1 sed -n '7p; 104 p' > results.txt
This does the following:
Searches in the directory Master or subdirectories for any file named reco.txt.
Outputs each filename with null-terminator instead of newline (-print0) -- this allows the full path to contain characters that usually need escaping (such as spaces)
Pipes the result into xargs, which does the following:
Accepts null-terminated strings (-0)
Only puts at most one file into each command (-n1)
Runs sed -n '7p; 104 p' on that file
Entire output is redirected to results.txt, which will overwrite any existing contents in the file.
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
I'm wondering if there is a way to change a specific word in all of the files within the /www/ directory using command line. Just looking for a faster way to change out a specific word so I don't need to open all the files manually! Thanks!
find /www -type f -exec sed -i 's/foo/bar/g' \{\} \;
This line will replace foo with bar every time foo occurs in any file in /www. Be very sure you know what's under /www and what the replacement would do to those files before running it.
You might be looking for a grep-sed solution to find and replace, if you are on a Mac (and referring to the Mac's Terminal app).