I'm trying to write a script that will prompt the user for the first 5 charters of a file name then have it search the directories for any files that start with that. Then I want it to check to see if a folder is created with the file names and if not create one then move the files there. But if there is a directory for it already then to just move the files too the folder.
Break it down step by step:
"prompt the user for the first 5 characters of a file name" -- you can use the shell read command to get the data. Try a simple shell script:
#!/bin/bash
read foo
echo "foo = $foo"
"if a folder is created with the file names" -- you can use find to see if a file exists. for example:
find . -name abcde\*
"But if there is a directory for it already then to just move the files too the folder." -- the command mkdir takes a -p option so that, if the directory already exists, it won't do anything.
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I have 200,000 files I want to send to different folders based on key words in the file name
in English if a file name has (shtf or prepper or prepping or survival) in the name send(move) it to folder shtf
if a file has (cookbook or gluten or recipe) move to food folder
*cookbook* *GLUTEN* *RECIPE*
example
(file name)
more shtf tips.epub move to folder shtf
ifshtfbeready.epub move to folder shtf
oldworldcookbook.epub move to folder food
i'm old retired ibmer small basic sas dos commands or ????
Here is a bash command, you may be able to adapt it into dos etc. I'm posting this because others may it useful as well.
find . | grep -E "(cookbook|gluten|recipe)" | while read name; do mv $name directory; done;
Where directory is the name of the directory you want to move the file. You can replace . with whatever starting directory you want, of course.
You can use wildcard in the source filename list and use a directory as the target to move multiple files with one command.
move c:\dir1\*cookbook*.* c:\food
move c:\dir1\*gluten*.* c:\food
Suppose I have a directory structure like
C:\Users\Desktop\abc\d
I want to rar archive the abc folder so that the structure of rar is:
abc\d
When I try using powershell to archive, winrar replicates the full path inside the archive, like:
\Users\Desktop\abc\d
I dont want the full path to be created inside the archive
Here's the script:
https://gist.github.com/saurabhwahile/50f1091fb29c2bb327b7
What am I doing wrong?
Use the command line:
Rar.exe a -r -ep1 Test.rar "C:\Users\Desktop\abc"
Rar.exe is the console version of WinRAR stored in same directory as WinRAR.exe. You can use this command line also with WinRAR.exe if you want to see the compression process in a graphic window.
a is the command and means add files to archive.
-r is a switch to recursively add all files and subdirectories including empty subdirectories to the archive.
-ep1 is another switch which results in execluding base directory.
For this command line the base directory is "C:\Users\Desktop\" and therefore the created archive Test.rar contains only abc and all files and subdirectories in directory abc which is what you want.
One more hint: Using the command line
Rar.exe a -r -ep1 Test.rar "C:\Users\Desktop\abc\"
results in adding all files and subdirectories of directory abc to the archive, but without directory name abc being also stored in the archive. The backslash at end makes this difference.
In other words: On using switch -ep1 everything up to last backslash in file/directory specification is not added to the archive.
For more information about available switches see the text file Rar.txt in the program files directory of WinRAR.
Things Required Step-By Step:
List all files/items in Directory/Sub-Directory.(e.g. List files/items of DirA)
Search All Listed Files in another Directory (e.g. Search files/items of DirA in DirB)
output the result using windows search. (e.g. each file/item is individually searched in DirB and results displayed in individual search Windows )
Required in a .bat file (Command Line script) or suggest a tool which helps me perform this.
You can check for file and subfolder names from one folder in another folder like this (if that's what you mean by "search all listed files in another directory"):
for %%f in ("C:\folder1\*") do (
if exist "C:\folder2\%%~nxf" echo %%~nxf exists in C:\folder2
)
It's not clear to me what you mean by "output the result using Windows Search", though.
I'm creating a recycle-bin script in SH shell linux in three differant scripts, delete, trash and restore.
The first two scripts are working fine; 'Delete' moves the selected file to the recycle-bin while logging a text file called 'trashinfo' which shows the original path location of the file (to be later used in restore) and 'Trash' which removes everything in the recycle-bin.
The 'restore' script should take the logged path name gained in the delete script and return the file to its original location. I've spent more time than I'd like to remember on this and cant get the restore script to work properly!
Below is the script I've written, as far as I can make out I'm grepping for the filename variable in the text file that holds the pathname, eg 'restore testfile', this is then combined with the basename command, the testfile is then moved into the location thats been grepped and combined with the basename.
Anyone have any pointers on where I'm going wrong?
if [ "$*" != -f ]
then
path=grep "$*" /usr/local/bin/trashinfo
pathname=basename "$path"
mv "$path" "$pathname"
path=$(grep "$*" /usr/local/bin/trashinfo)
pathname=$(basename "$path")
How can I open any type of file in a .bat by providing only a name of the file, no extension?
I want to let windows decide the application to use.
example:
%SystemRoot%\explorer.exe E:\SomeFolder\
%SystemRoot%\explorer.exe E:\SomeFolder\file1
Use START command:
start "Any title" E:\SomeFolder\
start "Any title" E:\SomeFolder\file1
Taken from Start help:
If Command Extensions are enabled, external command invocation
through the command line or the START command changes as follows:
.
non-executable files may be invoked through their file association just
by typing the name of the file as a command. (e.g. WORD.DOC would
launch the application associated with the .DOC file extension).
See the ASSOC and FTYPE commands for how to create these
associations from within a command script.
.
When searching for an executable, if there is no match on any extension,
then looks to see if the name matches a directory name. If it does, the
START command launches the Explorer on that path. If done from the
command line, it is the equivalent to doing a CD /D to that path.
Note that previous description imply that the pure filename must also execute the right application, with no START command. To pick up the first file with a given name:
for %%f in (name.*) do set "filename=%%f" & goto continue
:continue
... and to execute it:
%filename%
PS - Note that you want "to let windows decide the application to use", but in your example you explicitly select %SystemRoot%\explorer.exe as the application to use. So?