I use "MacOS X Yosemite (10.10.4)"
I've converted video mts files to mov files using QuickTime, but the new file created doesn't preserve original Creation Date.
fileA.mts --> Creation Date: 07/02/2010 10:51
fileA_converted.mov --> Creation Date: Today 8:35
I'd like to change the Creation Date attribute of several files, using the date of the original files. I know I can do this by using Terminal "Touch" command in order to this:
touch -r fileA.mts fileA_converted.mov
touch -r fileB.mts fileB_converted.mov
As I have more than 200 files to change Creation Date, is it possible to automate this using automator Script Shell action, or any other way?
Like this in the bash shell - which is what you get in Terminal (untested):
#!/bin/bash
for orig in *.mts; do
# Generate new name from old one
new="${orig/.mts/_converted.mov}"
echo touch -r "$orig" "$new"
done
Save the above in a file called doDates and then type this in the Terminal
chmod +x doDates # make the script executable
./doDates # run the script
Sample output
touch -r Freddy Frog.mts Freddy Frog_converted.mov
touch -r fileA.mts fileA_converted.mov
At the moment it does nothing, but run it, see if you like what it says, and then remove the word echo and run it again if all looks ok.
Execute below command when we have all original and converted files in same folder
ls | grep ".mts" | awk -F. '{print $0" "$1"_converted.mov"}' | xargs touch -r
when we have different folder run below command on path where .mts files are present and add absolute path before $1 just like I have added /home/convertedfiles/
ls | grep ".mts" | awk -F. '{print $0" /home/convertedfiles/"$1"_converted.mov"}' | xargs touch -r
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I have a bash script which downloads some files from a url and stores them into a folder named "data1". Since these files are downloaded as .zip then the next step is to unzip them. After that, the variables extension and encoding are get from every file, where extension is the type of file (txt, csv, docx) and encoding is the encoding format of each file (ISO, utf-8). Since the files that this script downloads are not in utf-8 format i have to perform this transformation. This is the line which performs the encoding:
iconv -f $encoding -t UTF-8//TRANSLIT $name2.$extension -o conversion_$name2.$extension;
As you can see, I have to pass two parameters, the file to be encoded to utf-8 format and the name of the output file which will be: conversion_(name of the original file).(extension of the original file). However, I'm getting the following error:
iconv: illegal input sequence at position 1234704
This error is affecting the datos_abiertos_covid19.zip file which after the unzipping process is named as 200715COVID19MEXICO.csv (but it changes depending on the day this script is run). Does anyone knows how I can avoid this error? I specifically need all of the files downloaded to be in utf-8 format. I would really appreciate your help.
Here is the script I'm using:
! /usr/bin/bash
# creating folders
mkdir data1
cd data1
# downloading data
wget http://187.191.75.115/gobmx/salud/datos_abiertos/datos_abiertos_covid19.zip
wget http://187.191.75.115/gobmx/salud/datos_abiertos/diccionario_datos_covid19.zip
# unziping data
for i in `ls | grep .zip`; do unzip $i; done
# this for will iterate over all the files contained on the data1 folder
for name in `ls -F -1 | grep -v / | grep -v zip`; do
# getting extension of current file
extension=`echo $name | sed 's/\./ /g' | awk '{print $2}'`;
# getting encoding format of current file
encoding=`file -i $name | sed 's/=/ /g' |awk '{print $4}'`;
# echo $encoding
query="s/\.$extension//g"
# echo $query
name2=`echo $name | sed -e $query`;
# echo $name2
# echo $name" "$extension" "$encoding" "$name2
# encoding current file
iconv -f $encoding -t UTF-8//TRANSLIT $name2.$extension -o conversion_$name2.$extension;
done
mkdir old
mv `ls | grep -v "conversion_" | grep -v "old"` old
Since this script is intended to be run automatically every 24 hours, then I need the old data (data from a day before) to be stored in another place. That's why at the end of the script a new folder is created and all the "old files" are moved to the folder named "old".
I wrote a basic script which changes the directory to a specific path and shows the list of folders, but my script shows the list of files of the current folder where my script lies instead of which I specify in script.
Here is my script:
#!/bin/bash
v1="$(ls -l | awk '/^-/{ print $NF }' | rev | cut -d "_" -f2 | rev)"
v2=/home/PS212-28695/logs/
cd $v2 && echo $v1
Does any one knows what I am doing wrong?
Your current script makes no sense really. v1 variable is NOT a command to execute as you expect, but due to $() syntax it is in fact output of ls -t at the moment of assignment and that's why you have files from current directory there as this is your working directory at that particular moment. So you should rather be doing ordinary
ls -t /home/PS212-28695/logs/
EDIT
it runs but what if i need to store the ls -t output to variable
Then this is same syntax you already had, but with proper arguments:
v1=$(ls -t /home/PS212-28695/logs/)
echo ${v1}
If for any reason you want to cd then you have to do that prior setting v1 for the same reason I explained above.
I'm trying to make this bash script but get this: Error reading *.docx. The file doesn’t exist
Here's the script:
#!/bin/bash
textutil -convert txt *.docx
cat *.txt | wc -w
I'm currently running it from the folder but I'd like to make it a global script I can just call from any current folder.
If you want to make it available on your whole system you need to move it to a bin location like so
chmod a+rx yourscript.sh && sudo mv yourscript.sh /usr/local/bin/yourscript
then you can use it like a normal script in any folder
--Bash 4.1.17 (running with Cygwin)
Hello, I am trying to pass the date into the --suffix option on the move (mv) command. I am able to pass in a simple string (like my name) but unable to pass in the date. If you run the script below you will see that the mv command with the suffix="$var" works but suffix="$now" does not.
#!/bin/bash
dir="your directory goes here"
now="$(date "+%m/%d/%y")"
var="_CARL!!!"
echo "$now"
echo "$var"
cd "$dir"
touch test.txt
# error if already exists
mkdir ./stack_question
touch ./stack_question/test.txt
mv -b --suffix="$var" test.txt ./stack_question/
The idea is that if test.txt already exists when trying to move the file, the file will have a suffix appended to it. So if you run this script with:
--suffix="$var"
you will see that the stack_question directory contains two files:
test.txt & test.txt_CARL!!!
But, if you run this script with:
--suffix="$now"
you will see that in the stack_question directory only contains:
test.txt
Any help on this would be greatly appreciated!
It is because you have embedded / in your date format try
now="$(date +%m_%d_%y)"
I have a cron job which runs every 30 minutes to generate log files with time-stamp like this:
test20130215100531.log,
test20130215102031.log
I would like to create one folder daily with date time-stamp and push log files in to respective date folder when generated.
I need to achieve this on AIX server with bash.
Maybe you are looking for a script like this:
#!/bin/bash
shopt -s nullglob # This line is so that it does not complain when no logfiles are found
for filename in test*.log; do # Files considered are the ones starting with test and ending in .log
foldername=$(echo "$filename" | awk '{print (substr($0, 5, 8));}'); # The foldername is characters 5 to 13 from the filename (if they exist)
mkdir -p "$foldername" # -p so that we don't get "folder exists" warning
mv "$filename" "$foldername"
echo "$filename $foldername" ;
done
I only tested with your sample, so do a proper testing before using in a directory that contains important stuff.
Edit in response to comments:
Change your original script to this:
foldername=$(date +%Y%m%d)
mkdir -p /home/app/logs/"$foldername"
sh sample.sh > /home/app/logs/"$foldername"/test$(date +%Y%m%d%H%M%S).log
Or if the directory is created somewhere else, just do this:
sh sample.sh > /home/app/logs/$(date +%Y%m%d)/test$(date +%Y%m%d%H%M%S).log
You should use logrotate! It can do this for you already, and you can just write to the same log file.
Check their man pages for info:
http://linuxcommand.org/man_pages/logrotate8.html