I have a file named "blocked.txt" which contains name of 4000 files like below:
1502146676.VdeI4b5c5cbM804631.vps47619.domain.local:2,
1502146676.VdeI4b5c5cdM808282.vps47619.domain.local:2,
1502146677.VdeI4b5c5d3M192892.vps47619.domain.local:2,
1502146677.VdeI4b5c5d7M213070.vps47619.domain.local:2,
1502146677.VdeI4b5c5e5M796312.vps47619.domain.local:2,
1502146678.VdeI4b5c5efM412992.vps47619.domain.local:2,
1502146678.VdeI4b5c5f1M613275.vps47619.domain.local:2,
1502146679.VdeI4b5c5f8M11301.vps47619.domain.local:2,
1502146682.VdeI4b5c66dM115848.vps47619.domain.local:2,S
1502146682.VdeI4b5c676M608733.vps47619.domain.local:2,
1502146685.VdeI4b5c69aM1652.vps47619.domain.local:2,
....
....
i ran below command on shell to copy the files to /tmp/backup directory
for i in `cat blocked.txt`; do cp -f "${i}" /tmp/backup/ ; done
but this gives me error "do you want to overwrite ? y/n" even though i have used -f with cp
Any idea whats wrong in the command ?
You likely have an alias,
alias cp="cp -i"
or function
cp () {
command cp -i "$#"
}
that interferes.
To solve this, simply use command cp instead of just cp:
while read -r name; do
command cp "$name" /tmp/backup
done <blocked.txt
Or specify the full path to cp:
while read -r name; do
/bin/cp "$name" /tmp/backup
done <blocked.txt
Related
I want to copy the functionality of a windows program called files2folder, which basically lets you right-click a bunch of files and send them to their own individual folders.
So
1.mkv 2.png 3.doc
gets put into directories called
1 2 3
I have got it to work using this script but it throws out errors sometimes while still accomplishing what I want
#!/bin/bash
ls > list.txt
sed -i '/list.txt/d' ./list.txt
sed 's/.$//;s/.$//;s/.$//;s/.$//' ./list.txt > list2.txt
for i in $(cat list2.txt); do
mkdir $i
mv $i.* ./$i
done
rm *.txt
is there a better way of doing this? Thanks
EDIT: My script failed with real world filenames as they contained more than one . so I had to use a different sed command which makes it work. this is an example filename I'm working with
Captain.America.The.First.Avenger.2011.INTERNAL.2160p.UHD.BluRay.X265-IAMABLE
I guess you are getting errors on . and .. so change your call to ls to:
ls -A > list.txt
-A List all entries except for . and ... Always set for the super-user.
You don't have to create a file to achieve the same result, just assign the output of your ls command to a variable. Doing something like this:
files=`ls -A`
for file in $files; do
echo $file
done
You can also check if the resource is a file or directory like this:
files=`ls -A`
for res in $files; do
if [[ -d $res ]];
then
echo "$res is a folder"
fi
done
This script will do what you ask for:
files2folder:
#!/usr/bin/env sh
for file; do
dir="${file%.*}"
{ ! [ -f "$file" ] || [ "$file" = "$dir" ]; } && continue
echo mkdir -p -- "$dir"
echo mv -n -- "$file" "$dir/"
done
Example directory/files structure:
ls -1 dir/*.jar
dir/paper-279.jar
dir/paper.jar
Running the script above:
chmod +x ./files2folder
./files2folder dir/*.jar
Output:
mkdir -p -- dir/paper-279
mv -n -- dir/paper-279.jar dir/paper-279/
mkdir -p -- dir/paper
mv -n -- dir/paper.jar dir/paper/
To make it actually create the directories and move the files, remove all echo
I'm trying to use the cp function to do copy directories:
src/1/b
src/2/d
src/3/c
src/4/a
src/5/e
then the copying should result in
tgt/a/4
tgt/b/1
tgt/c/3
tgt/d/2
tgt/e/5
I tried to use the 'basename' function as well as 'cp dir1/*dir2'. With the basename, do I make a loop to find every directory or is there a recursive builtin? Also tried the 'cp-r' recursive copy function. But nothing so far has worked.
I used tmp folder that will hols the SOURCE list of files, yo can readjust:
cat tmp
result:
src/1/b
src/2/d
src/3/c
src/4/a
src/5/e
from here, I echo out the command, but you can remove echo and it will execute, if this output seems correct:
#!/bin/bash
cat tmp |while read z
do
echo cp "$z" "tgt/$(echo "$z"|cut -d/ -f 3)/$(echo "$z"|cut -d/ -f 2)"
done
result:
cp src/1/b tgt/b/1
cp src/2/d tgt/d/2
cp src/3/c tgt/c/3
cp src/4/a tgt/a/4
cp src/5/e tgt/e/5
you can also add parameters to cp as you see fit. But first test with the echo command, then execute :)
Hi guys i've a problem with grep . I don't know if there is another search code in shell script.
I'm trying to backup a folder AhmetsFiles which is stored in my Flash Disk , but at the same time I've to group them by their extensions and save them into [extensionName] Folder.
AhmetsFiles
An example : /media/FlashDisk/AhmetsFiles/lecture.pdf must be stored in /home/$(whoami)/Desktop/backups/pdf
Problem is i cant copy a file which name contains spaces.(lecture 2.pptx)
After this introduction here my code.
filename="/media/FlashDisk/extensions"
count=0
exec 3<&0
exec 0< $filename
mkdir "/home/$(whoami)/Desktop/backups"
while read extension
do
cd "/home/$(whoami)/Desktop/backups"
rm -rf "$extension"
mkdir "$extension"
cd "/media/FlashDisk/AhmetsFiles"
files=( `ls | grep -i "$extension"` )
fCount=( `ls | grep -c -i "$extension"` )
for (( i=0 ; $i<$fCount ; i++ ))
do
cp -f "/media/FlashDisk/AhmetsFiles/${files[$i]}" "/home/$(whoami)/Desktop/backups/$extension"
done
let count++
done
exec 0<&3
exit 0
Your looping is way more complicated than it needs to be, no need for either ls or grep or the files and fCount variables:
for file in *.$extension
do
cp -f "/media/FlashDisk/AhmetsFiles/$file" "$HOME/Desktop/backups/$extension"
done
This works correctly with spaces.
I'm assuming that you actually wanted to interpret $extension as a file extension, not some random string in the middle of the filename like your original code does.
Why don't you
grep -i "$extension" | while IFS=: read x ; do
cp ..
done
instead?
Also, I believe you may prefer something like grep -i ".$extension$" instead (anchor it to the end of line).
On the other hand, the most optimal way is probably
cp -f /media/FlashDisk/AhmetsFiles/*.$extension "$HOME/Desktop/backups/$extension/"
Thank you very much in advance for helping!
I have a directory with some html files
$ ls template/content/html
devel.html
idex.html
devel_iphone.html
devel_ipad.html
I'd like to write a bash function to copy every file in that folder into a new location (introduction/files/), ONLY if a file with the same name doesn't exist already there.
This is what I have so far:
orig_html="template/content/html";
dest_html="introduction/files/";
function add_html {
for f in $orig_html"/*";
do
if [ ! -f SAME_FILE_IN_$dest_html_DIRECTORY ];
then
cp $f $dest_html;
fi
done
}
The capital letters is where I was stuck.
Thank you very much.
Would the -n option be enough for your needs?
-n, --no-clobber
do not overwrite an existing file (overrides a previous -i option)
use rsync like this:
rsync -c -avz --delete $orig_html $dest_html
which keep $orig_html indentical with $dest_html based file checksum.
Do you need a bash script ? cp supports the -r (recursive) option, and the -u (update) option. From the man page:
-u, --update
copy only when the SOURCE file is newer than the destination
file or when the destination file is missing
Your $f variable contains the full path, because of the /*.
Try doing something like:
for ff in $orig_html/*
do
thisFile=${ff##*/}
if [ ! -f ${dest_html}/$thisFile ]; then
cp $ff ${dest_html}
fi
done
so I need to copy the file /home/servers/template/craftbukkit.jar into every folder inside of /home/servers, Ex. /home/servers/server1, /home/servers/server2, etc.
But I only want to do it if /home/servers/whateverserveritiscurrentlyon/mods does not exsist. This is what I came up with and was wondering if it will work:
echo " Script to copy a file to all server directories, only if mods does not exist in that directory"
for i in /home/servers/*/; do
if [ ! -d "$i/mods" ]; then
cp -f /home/servers/template/craftbukkit.jar "$i"
fi
done
echo " completed script ..."
Looks like it should work. To non-destructively test, change the cp -f ... line to say echo cp -f ... and review the output.
It could also be somewhat shortened, but it wouldn't affect efficiency much:
for i in /home/servers/*/
do
[[ -d "${i}/mods" ]] || cp -f /home/servers/template/craftbukkit.jar "${i}/."
done