I have a directory with this structure:
main/
Antispam/res/values/
strings.xml
plurarls.xml
arrays.xml
Backup/res/values/
strings.xml
plurarls.xml
arrays.xml
etc.
Antispam and Backup have other folders inside, but I do not need those. I just want to have only the values folder with the three XML files (strings.xml, plurarls.xml and arrays.xml). How can I do that?
if you run this in the parent directory:
find . -regex '.*backup.*'
you would have something like this:
./backup
./backup/res
./backup/res/value
./backup/res/value/00.xml
./backup/res/value/02.xml
./backup/res/value/01.xml
And then you can invert the match by -not
find . -not -regex '.*backup.*'
and of course you can make it more specific with -type d and literal ./
find . -type d -not -regex './backup.*'
and then do any thing you like with the output
This is what I would do. Basically just find folders excluding the parent folders and send them to oblivion.
find main/Antispam/res/values/ '!' -path main/Antispam/res/values/ -type d | xargs rm -f -r $1
find main/Backup/res/values '!' -path main/Backup/res/values -type d | xargs rm -f -r $1
Hope it works for you! :)
This work for me:
ale8530#vmi81507:~/Scrivania/APK-Tools-Linux-master/working$ find . -regex '.*res/values/strings.*'
./WaliLive/res/values/strings.xml ./SystemAdSolution/res/values/strings.xml ./SampleExtAuthService/res/values/strings.xml ./DocumentsUI/res/values/strings.xml ./CaptivePortalLogin/res/values/strings.xml ./SoundRecorder/res/values/strings.xml ./ExternalStorageProvider/res/values/strings.xml ./MiuiCompass/res/values/strings.xml ./CloudBackup/res/values/strings.xml ./BackupRestoreConfirmation/res/values/strings.xml ./AntHalService/res/values/strings.xml ./MiuiSuperMarket/res/values/strings.xml ./DownloadProvider/res/values/strings.xml ./VpnDialogs/res/values/strings.xml ./XiaomiAccount/res/values/strings.xml ./SpacesCore/res/values/strings.xml ./CdmaCallOptions/res/values/strings.xml
Can you copy this output to another director
y? Keeping the same output?
For example
From-->./WaliLive/res/values/strings.xml to ./WaliLive.apk/res/values/strings.xml
Thanks
PLEASE BACKUP YOU DATA BEFORE YOU TRY!!!
if you don't care about empty dirs (or you don't care to do everything with one command), i'll do something like:
find ! -name strings.xml ! -name plurarls.xml ! -name arrays.xml -type f -delete
if you care about empty dirs:
find -type d -print0 | xargs -0 rmdir -p
I have a directory structure that looks like this:
/images
/1
/.tmp
image1.jpg
image2.jpg
/2
.tmp
image1.jpg
image2.jpg
image3.jpg
/3
.tmp
image1.jpg
image2.jpg
What I need is to move all of those files in .tmp up one level, so their paths are images/1/image1.jpg rather than images/1/.tmp/image1.jpg. The issue is that I have hundreds or thousands of these numbered folders, so doing it by hand would take forever.
Is there an OS X or Unix shell command that I could iterate over each /.tmp folder and move the contents up a level, or something like:
mv images/*/.tmp/* images/< the current dir being iterated over>/*
If your find supports the -execdir command (which OSX's find apparently does), then you could do:
find . -iname '*.jpg' -execdir mv {} .. \;
-execdir runs the command from the directory where the file was found, so .. will refer to that file's directory's parent directory.
You can refine this to force matching a .tmp directory:
find . -path '*/.tmp/*.jpg' -execdir mv {} .. \;
However, * in -path also matches /, so this will also match, for example, images/.tmp/foo/image.jpg.
You could do:
find . -type d -name .tmp -print0 | xargs -0I_ find _ -maxdepth 1 -name '*.jpg' -execdir mv {} .. \;
Or, using find's regex support:
find . -regex '.*/\.tmp/[^/]*\.jpg' -execdir mv {} .. \;
From scratch without testing:
cd /images
for i in $(find ./ -name *.jpg)
do
d = $(dirname $i)
d = $(dirname $d)
echo $i $d
# test! before use the next
# mv $i $d
done
I have a script to move files of type .txt to a particular folder .It looks for the files in work folder and move it to completed folder.
I would like to make the script generic i.e to enhance the script so that the scripts works not for just one particular folder but other similar folders as well.
Example: If there is a .txt file in folder /tmp/swan/test/work and also in folder /tmp/swan/test11/work, the files should move to /tmp/swan/test/done and /tmp/swan/test11/done respectively.
EDIT:Also, if there is a .txt file in a sub folder like /tmp/swan/test11/work/APX that should also move to /tmp/swan/test11/done
Below is the current script.
#!/bin/bash
MY_DIR=/tmp/swan
cd $MY_DIR
find . -path "*work*" -iname "*.txt" -type f -execdir mv '{}' /tmp/swan/test/done \;
With -execdir, the mv command is executed in whatever directory the file is found in. Since you just want to move the file to a "sibling" directory, each command can use the same relative path ../done.
find . -path "*work*" -iname "*.txt" -type f -execdir mv '{}' ../done \;
One way to do it:
Background:
$ tree
.
├── a
│ └── work
└── b
└── work
Renaming:
find . -type f -name work -exec \
sh -c 'echo mv "$1" "$(dirname "$1")"/done' -- {} \;
Output:
mv ./a/work ./a/done
mv ./b/work ./b/done
You can remove the echo if it does what you want it to.
What about:
find . -path '*work/*.txt' -exec sh -c 'd=$(dirname $(dirname $1))/done; mkdir -p $d; mv $1 $d' _ {} \;
(also creates the target directory if it does not exist already).
I have a folder with a bunch of log files. Each set of log files is in a folder detailing the time and date that the program was run. Inside these log folders, I've got some video files that I want to extract. All I want is the video files, nothing else. I tried using this command to only copy the video files, but it didn't work because a directory didn't exist.
.rmv is the file extension of the files I want.
$ find . -regex ".*\.rmv" -type f -exec cp '{}' /copy/to/here/'{}'
If I have a folder structure such as:
|--root
|
|--folder1
| |
| |--file.rmv
|
|--folder2
|
|--file2.rmv
How can I get it to copy to copy/to/here with it copying the structure of folder1 and folder2 in the destination directory?
cp has argument --parents
so the shortest way to do what you want is:
find root -name '*.rmv' -type f -exec cp --parents "{}" /copy/to/here \;
I would just use rsync.
The {} represents the full path of the found file, so your cp command evaluate to this sort of thing:
cp /root/folder1/file.rmv /copy/to/here/root/folder1/file.rmv
If you just drop the second {} it will instead be
cp /root/folder1/file.rmv /copy/to/here
the copy-file-to-directory form of cp, which should do the trick.
Also, instead of -regex, yor could just use the -name operand:
find root -name '*.rmv' -type f -exec cp {} /copy/to/here \;
Assuming src is your root and dst is your /copy/to/here
#!/bin/sh
find . -name *.rmv | while read f
do
path=$(dirname "$f" | sed -re 's/src(\/)?/dst\1/')
echo "$f -> $path"
mkdir -p "$path"
cp "$f" "$path"
done
putting this in cp.sh and running ./cp.sh from the directory over root
Output:
./src/folder1/file.rmv -> ./dst/folder1
./src/My File.rmv -> ./dst
./src/folder2/file2.rmv -> ./dst/folder2
EDIT: improved script version (thanks for the comment)
I've renamed some files in a fairly large project and want to remove the .pyc files they've left behind. I tried the bash script:
rm -r *.pyc
But that doesn't recurse through the folders as I thought it would. What am I doing wrong?
find . -name "*.pyc" -exec rm -f {} \;
find . -name '*.pyc' -type f -delete
Surely the simplest.
Add to your ~/.bashrc:
pyclean () {
find . -type f -name "*.py[co]" -delete
find . -type d -name "__pycache__" -delete
}
This removes all .pyc and .pyo files, and __pycache__ directories. It's also very fast.
Usage is simply:
$ cd /path/to/directory
$ pyclean
In current version of debian you have pyclean script which is in python-minimal package.
Usage is simple:
pyclean .
If you're using bash >=4.0 (or zsh)
rm **/*.pyc
Note that */*.pyc selects all .pyc files in the immediate first-level subdirectories while **/*.pyc recursively scans the whole directory tree. As an example, foo/bar/qux.pyc will be deleted by rm **/*.pyc but not by */*.pyc.
The globstar shell options must be enabled. To enable globstar:
shopt -s globstar
and to check its status:
shopt globstar
For windows users:
del /S *.pyc
I used to use an alias for that:
$ which pycclean
pycclean is aliased to `find . -name "*.pyc" | xargs -I {} rm -v "{}"'
find . -name '*.pyc' -print0 | xargs -0 rm
The find recursively looks for *.pyc files. The xargs takes that list of names and sends it to rm. The -print0 and the -0 tell the two commands to seperate the filenames with null characters. This allows it to work correctly on file names containing spaces, and even a file name containing a new line.
The solution with -exec works, but it spins up a new copy of rm for every file. On a slow system or with a great many files, that'll take too long.
You could also add a couple more args:
find . -iname '*.pyc' -print0 | xargs -0 --no-run-if-empty rm
iname adds case insensitivity, like *.PYC . The no-run-if-empty keeps you from getting an error from rm if you have no such files.
$ find . -name '*.pyc' -delete
This is faster than
$ find . -name "*.pyc" -exec rm -rf {} \;
Further, people usually want to remove all *.pyc, *.pyo files and __pycache__ directories recursively in the current directory.
Command:
find . | grep -E "(__pycache__|\.pyc|\.pyo$)" | xargs rm -rf
Django Extension
Note: This answer is very specific to Django project that have already been using Django Extension.
python manage.py clean_pyc
The implementation can be viewed in its source code.
Just to throw another variant into the mix, you can also use backquotes like this:
rm `find . -name *.pyc`
full recursive
ll **/**/*.pyc
rm **/**/*.pyc
Now there is a package pyclean on PyPI, which is easy to use, and cross-platform. User just need a simple command line to clean all __pycache__ files in current dir:
pyclean .
if you don't want .pyc anymore you can use this single line in a terminal:
export PYTHONDONTWRITEBYTECODE=1
if you change your mind:
unset PYTHONDONTWRITEBYTECODE
First run:
find . -type f -name "*.py[c|o]" -exec rm -f {} +
Then add:
export PYTHONDONTWRITEBYTECODE=1
To ~/.profile
rm -r recurses into directories, but only the directories you give to rm. It will also delete those directories. One solution is:
for i in $( find . -name *.pyc )
do
rm $i
done
find will find all *.pyc files recursively in the current directory, and the for loop will iterate through the list of files found, removing each one.
find . -name "*.pyc"|xargs rm -rf
If you want to delete all the .pyc files from the project folder.
First, you have
cd <path/to/the/folder>
then find all the .pyc file and delete.
find . -name \*.pyc -delete
You can run find . -name "*.pyc" -type f -delete.
But use it with precaution. Run first find . -name "*.pyc" -type f to see exactly which files you will remove.
In addition, make sure that -delete is the last argument in your command. If you put it before the -name *.pyc argument, it will delete everything.
To delete all the python compiled files in current directory.
find . -name "__pycache__"|xargs rm -rf
find . -name "*.pyc"|xargs rm -rf
If you want remove all *.pyc files and __pycache__ directories recursively in the current directory:
with python:
import os
os.popen('find . | grep -E "(__pycache__|\.pyc|\.pyo$)" | xargs rm -rf')
or manually with terminal or cmd:
find . | grep -E "(__pycache__|\.pyc|\.pyo$)" | xargs rm -rf
py3clean works for me!
cd /usr/local/lib/python3.9
sudo py3clean -v .
Had to add a few ignore params on M1:
pyclean --verbose . --ignore "Library",".Trash"