This is my first time using Automator and it seems like a pretty nifty tool. I am running into an issue however at the very end of the automation. The goal of my automator workflow is to specify a path, then create a directory Highschool1, for example, within that path.
From here, I want it to search for any files within the specified path that include "Highschool1" in the name, and move them into the new Highschool1 directory. Here is how my bash script works within terminal:
mkdir "/Users/tommy/Desktop/TestShow1/WG/Highschool1"
This creates the directory as intended. Then:
find /Users/tommy/Desktop/TestShow1/WG -name 'Highschool1' -prune -o -type f -name '*Highschool1*' -exec mv -- {} /Users/tommy/Desktop/TestShow1/WG/Highschool1 \;
This finds the files I want while excluding the new Highschool1 directory, and then moves the found files into that Highschool1 directory. It is all working as intended at the base.
It's when I try to apply this script within my automation using positional parameters that it stops working.
-I stuff a variable called "HighschoolName" with the input "Highschool1"
-Then I stuff a variable called "pathA" with the input, which is the path I chose: "/Users/tommy/Desktop/TestShow1/WG"
-Then I call back my HighschoolName variable and begin with the positional parameters.
This is the final script I used:
mkdir "$1/$2"
find /$1 -name '$2' -prune -o -type f -name '*$2*' -exec mv -- {} /$1/$2 \;
This creates the directory Highschool1 where I want it, but fails to move any files into it. It gives me no error message either. It simply acts as if the script was run successfully. Does anyone have any idea what the problem could be?
Read about quoting
In:
find /$1 -name '$2' -prune -o -type f -name '*$2*' -exec mv -- {} /$1/$2 \;
'$2' will not interpolate the variables, you need to use "$2" (same for '*$2*')
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I'm trying to source a file that I can get from the output of find using these commands:
find ./ -iname activate.fish -exec source {} \;
and
find ./ -iname activate.fish -exec builtin source {} \;
But both these commands give the error of the form find: ‘source’: No such file or directory or find: ‘builtin’: No such file or directory. Seems like exec of find is not able to recognize fish's builtins ?
What I basically want to achieve is a single command that will search for Python's virtualenv activate scripts in the current directory and execute them.
So doing something like -exec fish -c 'source {}; \ would not help. I've tried it as well and it doesn't error out but does not make the changes either.
Any ideas what can be done for this ?
Thanks!
Perhaps you need:
for file in (find ./ -iname activate.fish)
source $file
end
# or
find ./ -iname activate.fish | while read file
source $file
end
Command substitution executes the command, splits on newlines, and returns that list.
As mentioned in comments, seems like -exec does not run in or affect the current shell environment. So find -exec is not gonna work for my use case.
Instead, this will work:
source (find ./ -iname activate.fish)
I'd like to copy a file_list to another location. This is being called in a python script. I have
find <sourceaddress> -exec cp '{}' <destaddress> | .* rm
but it tells me an exact parameter is missing. It runs though it gives a prompt from the command line and from the script just does nothing.
I think you are missing "\;" at the end. I am not sure what the .* rm does. Assuming you want to remove the files you can use the 'mv' command instead of 'cp'.
For copying files only from one directory to another ,
find <srcdirectory> -exec cp '{}' <destdirectory> \;
If you want to move the files, use 'mv' instead use below.
find <srcdirectory> -exec mv '{}' <destdirectory> \;
I would like to know how to deleted all the contents of a folder (it contains other folders and some files) except for 2 folders and its contents
The below command keeps the folder conf and removes all the other folders
find . ! -name 'conf' -type d -exec rm -rf {} +
I have tried to pipe it like below
find . -maxdepth 1 -type d ! -name 'conf' |find . -maxdepth 1 -type d ! -name 'foldername2'
but didnt work.
is it possible to do with a single command
You haven't specified which shell you're using, but if you're using bash then extended globs can help:
printf '%s\n' !(#(conf|foldername2)/)
If you're happy with the list of files and directories produced by that, then pass the same glob to rm -rf:
rm -rf !(#(conf|foldername2)/)
Inside a script, you may need to enable extglob using shopt -s extglob. Later, you can change -s to -u to unset the option.
If you're using a different shell, then you can add some more options to your find command:
find -maxdepth 1 ! -name 'conf' -a ! -name 'foldername2' -exec rm -rf {} +
Try it without the -exec part first to print the matches rather than deleting everything.
It may my little program utility can help you. I hope so.
First of all you should find the path of your files .sh
then you should find the main folder that contains those files .sh
then remove anything except those folders
I wrote drr for such a purpose that it can do such a task so easy
drr, stands for: remove or rename files based on regular expression in D language. So you must compile it before using.
See the screenshot:
Please be careful since this is not an appropriate tool for beginner.
I'm trying to write a shell script that moves all files except for the ones that end with .sh and .py. I also don't want to move directories.
This is what I've got so far:
cd FILES/user/folder
shopt -s extglob
mv !(*.sh|*.py) MoveFolder/ 2>/dev/null
shopt -u extglob
This moves all files except the ones that contain .sh or .py, but all directories are moved into MoveFolder as well.
I guess I could rename the folders, but other scripts already have those folders assigned for their work, so renaming might give me more trouble. I also could add the folder names but whenever someone else creates a folder, I would have to add its name to the script or it will be moved as well.
How can I improve this script to skip all folders?
Use find for this:
find -maxdepth 1 \! -type d \! -name "*.py" \! -name "*.sh" -exec mv -t MoveFolder {} +
What it does:
find: find things...
-maxdepth 1: that are in the current directory...
\! -type d: and that are not a directory...
\! -name "*.py: and whose name does not end with .py...
\! -name "*.sh: and whose name does not end with .sh...
-exec mv -t MoveFolder {} +: and move them to directory MoveFolder
The -exec flag is special: contrary to the the prior flags which were conditions, this one is an action. For each match, the + that ends the following command directs find to aggregate the file name at the end of the command, at the place marked with {}. When all the files are found, find executes the resulting command (i.e. mv -t MoveFolder file1 file2 ... fileN).
You'll have to check every element to see if it is a directory or not, as well as its extension:
for f in FILES/user/folder/*
do
extension="${f##*.}"
if [ ! -d "$f" ] && [[ ! "$extension" =~ ^(sh|py)$ ]]; then
mv "$f" MoveFolder
fi
done
Otherwise, you can also use find -type f and do some stuff with maxdepth and a regexp.
Regexp for the file name based on Check if a string matches a regex in Bash script, extension extracted through the solution to Extract filename and extension in Bash.
I'm trying to move a script from the directory I'm in to another directory after I have performed a find in the current directory. Although I don't get an error nothing happens. I don't know why. Can you help?
find . -name ScriptsFlowchart.xml -execdir mv {} Users/me/Desktop/SequencingScripts/{} \;
Try using -exec instead of -execdir and drop {} in target definition.
find . -name ScriptsFlowchart.xml -exec mv {} Users/me/Desktop/SequencingScripts/ \;
{} will retrieve the file path relative to current dir. So you must run the mv command from the current dir as well (using -exec).
From find manual page:
-execdir command ;
Like -exec, but the specified command is run from the subdirectory containing the matched file, which is not normally the directory in which you started find.
If that's in a bash script, try reading $? right after running the command to check if there were any errors (if equals 0, runs successfully).