I want to write a shell script to compare two folders and save the difference in a different folder.
Suppose FolderA has five sub folders as A1,A2,A3,A4,A5 and FolderB has five sub folders as A1,A2,A3,A4,A5. Both folders A & B are same in structure but the files inside folders A1,A2 and so on have some differences.
I want to compare the difference of the files in FolderA-> A1 with FolderB-> A1 and save the result in a folder Difference/A1. I tried to write the script but it's not working — please guide me?
#!/bin/bash
# setup folders for our different stages
DIST=/app/webmcore1/Demo/FolderA
DIST_OLD=/app/webmcore1/Demo/FolderB
mkdir -p Difference/newAddition
mkdir -p Difference/DifferenceIs
DIST_UPGRADE=/app/webmcore1/Demo/Difference
cd $DIST
find . -type f | while read filename
do
if [ ! -f "$DIST_OLD$filename" ]; then
cp --parents "$filename" $DIST_UPGRADE/newAddition
continue
fi
diff "$filename" "$DIST_OLD$filename" > /app/webmcore1/Demo/DIST_UPGRADE/DifferenceIs
done
Try Using ls command and after that get the difference.
cd FolderA
ls -R >/tmp/list1
cd FolderB
ls -R >/tmp/list2
diff /tmp/list1 /tmp/list2 >/tmp/difference.list
This logic you can customize as per your requirement.
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I'm quite new in creating shell scripts.
I'm developing a shell script that will backup my files once a day only.
I need to check which *.war files are in three different folders (input folder, production folder, backup folder)
If the same files exists in the three directories, don't perform backup.
If it doesn't, it must move the files in folder 2 to folder 3.
This is what I've done so far.
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TODAY=$(date +%d-%m-%Y)
INPUT=/home/bruno.ogasawara/entrada/
BACKUP=/home/bruno.ogasawara/backup/
PROD=/home/bruno.ogasawara/producao/
DIR1=$(ls $INPUT)
DIR2=$(ls $PROD)
DIR3=$(ls $BACKUP$TODAY)
for i in $DIR1; do
for j in $DIR2; do
for k in $DIR3; do
if [ $i == $j ] && [ $j == $k ]; then
exit 1; else
mv -f $PROD$j $BACKUP$TODAY
fi
done
done
done
mv -f $INPUT*.war $PROD
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The verification is not working. Only thing working is the mv -f $INPUT*.war $PROD in the end.
Where am I missing something or doing something wrong?
Thanks in advance people.
What I understand is you want to sync those three folders.
In that case you should not modify the file names as we are using file names to compare them.Otherwise you should use md5 or sha checksums.But linux filesystem already has timestamps feature you don't have to attach date to filename.
In your code you used ls to list files ...but actually ls command lists files in column mode which is not comaptible with for loop in bash.
correct command is
find $DIR -maxdepth 1 -type f -exec basename {} \;
you want to sync the *.war files to all folders...then simply you can use this:
#!/bin/bash
DIR1=/home/bruno.ogasawara/entrada/
DIR2=/home/bruno.ogasawara/backup/
DIR3=/home/bruno.ogasawara/producao/
cp -n $DIR1/*.war $DIR2
cp -n $DIR1/*.war $DIR3
cp -n $DIR2/*.war $DIR1
cp -n $DIR2/*.war $DIR3
cp -n $DIR3/*.war $DIR1
cp -n $DIR3/*.war $DIR2
-n: will check if file already exists.it will not overwrite the existing file.
I have a folder structure like this:
A big parent folder named Photos. This folder contains 900+ subfolders named a_000, a_001, a_002 etc.
Each of those subfolders contain more subfolders, named dir_001, dir_002 etc. And each of those subfolders contain lots of pictures (with unique names).
I want to move all these pictures contained in the subdirectories of a_xxx inside a_xxx. (where xxx could be 001, 002 etc)
After looking in similar questions around, this is the closest solution I came up with:
for file in *; do
if [ -d $file ]; then
cd $file; mv * ./; cd ..;
fi
done
Another solution I got is doing a bash script:
#!/bin/bash
dir1="/path/to/photos/"
subs= `ls $dir1`
for i in $subs; do
mv $dir1/$i/*/* $dir1/$i/
done
Still, I'm missing something, can you help?
(Then it would be nice to discard the empty dir_yyy, but not much of a problem at the moment)
You could try the following bash script :
#!/bin/bash
#needed in case we have empty folders
shopt -s nullglob
#we must write the full path here (no ~ character)
target="/path/to/photos"
#we use a glob to list the folders. parsing the output of ls is baaaaaaaddd !!!!
#for every folder in our photo folder ...
for dir in "$target"/*/
do
#we list the subdirectories ...
for sub in "$dir"/*/
do
#and we move the content of the subdirectories to the parent
mv "$sub"/* "$dir"
#if you want to remove subdirectories once the copy is done, uncoment the next line
#rm -r "$sub"
done
done
Here is why you don't parse ls in bash
Make sure the directory where the files exist is correct (and complete) in the following script and try it:
#!/bin/bash
BigParentDir=Photos
for subdir in "$BigParentDir"/*/; do # Select the a_001, a_002 subdirs
for ssdir in "$subdir"/*/; do # Select dir_001, … sub-subdirs
for f in "$ssdir"/*; do # Select the files to move
if [[ -f $f ]]; do # if indeed are files
echo \
mv "$ssdir"/* "$subdir"/ # Move the files.
fi
done
done
done
No file will be moved, just printed. If you are sure the script does what you want, comment the echo line and run it "for real".
You can try this
#!/bin/bash
dir1="/path/to/photos/"
subs= `ls $dir1`
cp /dev/null /tmp/newscript.sh
for i in $subs; do
find $dir1/$i -type f -exec echo mv \'\{\}\' $dir1/$i \; >> /tmp/newscript.sh
done
then open /tmp/newscript.sh with an editor or less and see if looks like what you are trying to do.
if it does then execute it with sh -x /tmp/newscript.sh
I'm trying to run a series of commands on a list of files in multiple directories located directly under the current branch.
An example hierarchy is as follows:
/tmp
|-1
| |-a.txt
| |-b.txt
| |-c.txt
|-2
| |-a.txt
| |-b.txt
| |-c.txt
From the /tmp directory I'm sitting at my prompt and I'm trying to run a command against the a.txt file by renaming it to d.txt.
How do I get it to go into each directory and rename the file? I've tried the following and it won't work:
for i in ./*; do
mv "$i" $"(echo $i | sed -e 's/a.txt/d.txt/')"
done
It just doesn't jump into each directory. I've also tried to get it to create files for me, or folders under each hierarchy from the current directory just 1 folder deep, but it won't work using this:
for x in ./; do
mkdir -p cats
done
OR
for x in ./; do
touch $x/cats.txt
done
Any ideas ?
Place the below script in your base directory
#!/bin/bash
# Move 'a.txt's to 'd.txt's recursively
mover()
{
CUR_DIR=$(dirname "$1")
mv "$1" "$CUR_DIR/d.txt"
}
export -f mover
find . -type f -name "a.txt" -exec bash -c 'mover "$0"' {} \;
and execute it.
Note:
If you wish be a bit more innovative and generalize the script, you could accept directory name to search for as a parameter to the script and pass the directory name to find
> for i in ./*; do
As per your own description, this will assign ./1 and then ./2 to i. Neither of those matches any of the actual files. You want
for i in ./*/*; do
As a further aside, the shell is perfectly capable of replacing simple strings using glob patterns. This also coincidentally fixes the problem with not quoting $i when you echo it.
mv "$i" "${i%/a.txt}/d.txt"
I am sure this is possible with a bash script, but I want to make sure I'm not missing something obvious. Google hasn't been much help, so maybe you can be.
Assume a directory has the following files
dir/file1
dir/newfile2
dir/oldfile3
I would like to figure out the best solution for copying all files in the folder to a folder 2 levels deep based on the first two letters of the filename, so the result would be
dir/f/i/file1
dir/n/e/newfile2
dir/o/l/oldfile3
Something like this should do it:
cd dir
for file in *; do
newpath="${file:0:1}/${file:1:1}"
mkdir -p "$newpath"
cp "$file" "$newpath"
done
Be sure all your filenames are two chars or more, though.
${var:n:m} is simply Bash syntax for "substring of var starting at n of length m."
If there can also be arbitrary subdirectories, either add -r to the cp command if you want to copy recursively or add a test to ignore directories in the for loop:
cd dir
for file in *; do
if [ -f "$file" ]; then
newpath="${file:0:1}/${file:1:1}"
mkdir -p "$newpath"
cp "$file" "$newpath"
fi
done
I'am trying to write simple script that will get files name from one folder and search them in another folder and remove if found them in that folder.
Got two folder like
/home/install/lib
/home/install/bin
/home/install/include
and
/usr/local/lib
/usr/local/bin
/usr/local/include
I want to remove all file's from /usr/local/lib{bin,include} that contains in /home/install/lib{bin,include}. For example having
/home/install/lib/test1
/usr/local/lib/test1
scritp will remove /usr/local/lib/test1. I tried to do it from each separate directory
/home/install/lib:ls -f -exec rm /usr/local/lib/{} \;
but nothing. Can you help me to manage with this simple script?
Create script rmcomm
#!/bin/bash
a="/home/install/$1"
b="/usr/local/$1"
comm -12 <(ls "$a") <(ls "$b") | while read file; do
rm "$b/$file"
done
Then call this script for every pair:
for dir in lib bin include; do rmcomm "$dir"; done
Here's something simple. Remove the echo from the line containing rm to run it after you've ensured it's doing what you want:
#!/bin/bash
dirs[0]=lib
dirs[1]=bin
dirs[2]=include
pushd /home/install
for dir in "${dirs[#]}"
do
for file in $(find $dir -type f)
do
# Remove 'echo' below once you're satisfied the correct files
# are being removed
echo rm /usr/local/$file
done
done
popd