I have stored many files in the doc format which I can only open with libreoffice on my mac.
The command:
./soffice --headless --convert-to docx --outdir /home/user ~/Downloads/*.doc
does exactly what it should: it converts all the *.doc files to libreoffice *.docx file.
My problem is that I have folders and subfolders with these files.
Is there any way to search through all the folders from a starting directory and to let "soffice" do its job in each of these folders, storing the new versions (*.docx) exactly where the original (*.doc) was found.
Unfortunately, I am not well-versed in apple script or in terminal to make this work. Yet there are 8000 doc files in hundreds and hundreds of folders that require the update to docx.
Thanks for your help.
Is there any way to search through all the folders from a starting directory and to let "soffice" do its job in each of these folders, storing the new versions (.docx) exactly where the original (.doc) was found.
This can actually be done in Terminal using a find command:
find '/path/to/directory' -type f -iname '*.doc' -execdir /Applications/LibreOffice.app/Contents/MacOS/soffice --headless --convert-to docx '{}' \;
In the example command above, change '/path/to/directory' to the actual pathname of the target directory that contains the subdirectories containing the .doc files.
What this find command does, in brief, is it finds all .doc files within the hierarchical directory structure of the '/path/to/directory' and executes the command in each subdirectory within containing the .doc files and converts each one in place in its subdirectory.
Notes:
Always insure you have proper backups before running commands in Terminal and the commands as typed will produce the wanted behavior!
This command assumes no .docx files already exist of the same name as the .doc files in the subdirectories, as it automatically overwrites any existing .docx files of the same name as the .doc files. As far as I can tell, the soffice command does not provide an option not to overwrite existing files. If this is going to be an issue, then a different solution will be necessary.
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I have a directory that I have been storing a lot of files so I'm working on a script to watch the disk space if it gets more than 80% then it will compress the files.
all the files end with file.#
my question is how to zip all files that end with a number without zipping the zipped files
I did the most of the script but I'm stuck with at this point
please your help
You can zip the files that are outputted by this command find . -not -name "*.zip".
Find is a command that is used well, to "find" files based on various criteria.
You can read more about it using man find or (online version) here
Simply run the zip command with -x argument to exclude already zipped files from being added to the compressed archive. The command will look like:
zip -r compressed.zip . -x "*.zip"
I've got 218GB of assorted files recovered from a failing hard drive using PhotoRec. The files do not have their original file names and they're not sorted in any manner.
How can I go about sorting the files into separate folders by file type? I've tried searching for .jpg, for example, and I can copy those results into a new folder. But when I search for something like .txt, I get 16GB of text files as the result and there's no way I've found to select them all and copy them into their own folder. The system just hangs.
This is all being done on Windows 10.
Open powershell. Change to the recovered data folder cd c:\...\recovered_files. Make a directory for the text files mkdir text_files. Do the move mv *.txt text_files.
You really just want to move/cut the files like this instead of copying, because moving the files is just a name change (very fast), but to copy would have to duplicate all of the data (quite slow).
If your files are distributed among many directories, you would need to use a find command. In Linux, this would be quite simple with the command, find. In Windows, I have never tried anything like this. On MSDN there is an article about PowerShell that features an example which seems reminiscient of what you want to do. MSDN Documentation
The gist of it is that you would use the command:
cd <your recovered files directory containing the recup_dir folders>
Get-ChildItem -Path ".\*.txt" -Recurse | Move-Item -Verbose -Destination "Z:\stock_recovered\TXT"
Note that the destination is outside of the search path, which might be important!
Since I have never tried this before, there is NO WARRANTY. Supposing it works, I would be curious to know.
I need a script that will find and get me all files in all subdirectories (and leave them in the folder structure as they are now). I know how to find and print that files:
find . -name "something.extension"
The point is, in those directories are lots files that was used before, but I don't want to get those, so the script should only find me files that matches some kind of path pattern which is:
xxx/trunk/xxx/src/main/resources
xxx is different everytime, and after resources there are still some folders that directories are different based on xxx.
Every top xxx folder contains folder named 'tags' (the same level as trunk) that stores previous releases of module (and every release has files that name I am looking for, but I don't want outdated files).
So I want to find all that files in subdirectories of that path pattern that I specified and copy to new location but leave folder structure as it is right now.
I am using Windows and cygwin.
Update
I combined answer commands that 'that other guy' posted below, and it works. Just to be clear I have something like this:
find */trunk/*/src/main/resources -name "something.extension" -exec mkdir -p /absolute/target/path/{} \; -exec cp {} /absolute/target/path/{} \;
Thanks.
Instead of searching under the entire current directory (.), just search under the directories you care about:
find */trunk/*/src/main/resources -name "something.extension"
I am working on a project, where compilation of the project involves, zipping up various files and folders and subfolders (html/css/js) selectively. Working on the windows platform, and I could continue to just use the CTRL+A and then SHIFT-click to unselect, but it does get a little tedious. I am working with cygwin, so I was wondering if it is possible to issue a command to zip selected files/folders recursively whilst excluding others, in one command? I already have zip command installed, but I seem to be zipping up the current zip file too and the .svn file too.
I would like this to be incorporated into a shell script if possible, so the simpler the better.
After reading the man pages, I think the solution that I was looking for is as follws:
needs to recurse directories (-r),
needs to exclude certail files/directories (-x)
It works in the current directory, but the . can be replaced with the path of any directory
zip -x directories_to_exclude -r codebase_latest.zip .
I have incorporated this into a short shell script that deletes files, tidy up some code, and then zips up all of the files as needed.
You should read man page of zip command:
-R
--recurse-patterns
Travel the directory structure recursively starting at the current directory; for example:
zip -R foo "*.c"
In this case, all the files matching *.c in the tree starting at the current directory are stored into a zip archive named foo.zip. Note that *.c will match
file.c, a/file.c and a/b/.c. More than one pattern can be listed as separate arguments. Note for PKZIP users: the equivalent command is
pkzip -rP foo *.c
Patterns are relative file paths as they appear in the archive, or will after zipping, and can have optional wildcards in them. For example, given the cur‐
rent directory is foo and under it are directories foo1 and foo2 and in foo1 is the file bar.c,
zip -R foo/*
will zip up foo, foo/foo1, foo/foo1/bar.c, and foo/foo2.
zip -R */bar.c
will zip up foo/foo1/bar.c. See the note for -r on escaping wildcards.
You can also have a look HERE
I have a folder containing many files and subfolders multiple levels deep. I'm looking for a command or script that will zip any subfolder called "fonts", resulting in a fonts.zip file at the same level as the fonts folder.
The fonts folders should remain after creation of their zip files (no delete).
If there is a fonts folder inside another fonts folder (unlikely case), only the top-level fonts folder should result in a fonts.zip file (ideal, but not mandatory).
If there is already a fonts.zip file at the same level as the fonts folder, it should be replaced.
I'll admit, I'm a Mac newbie. Hopefully there can be a simple terminal command to accomplish this. But I'm open to other ideas how to accomplish this.
Thanks,
-Matt
Using Kevin Grant's suggestion as a starting point, I was able to put together a terminal command that works the way I needed:
find . -type d -iname '*fonts' -execdir ditto -c -k -X --rsrc {} fonts.zip \;
I referred to the man pages for the find and ditto commands and their switches. I chose to use ditto over zip because it is supposed to be more compatible with HFS and resource forks under Mac OS X. Next I'll find out if StuffIt has a command line tool. If so, I'll use it instead of ditto.
This was also helpful.