We have few csv and xml files in following formats
String_YYYY_MM_DD_HH_MM.csv
String_YYYY_MM_DD_HH_MM.xml
String.xml
String.csv
Examples:
Reference_Categories_2021_02_24_17_14.csv
CD_CategoryTree_2021_02_24_17_14.csv
New_Categories.xml
Mobile_Footnote_2021_03_05_16_21.csv
Campaign_Version_2018_09_24_20_00.xml
Campaign_new.csv
Now we have to remove _YYYY_MM_DD_HH_MM from filenames so result will be
Reference_Categories.csv
CD_CategoryTree.csv
New_Categories.xml
Mobile_Footnote.csv
Campaign_Version.xml
Campaign_new.csv
Any idea how to do that in bash?
In pure bash:
pat='_[0-9][0-9][0-9][0-9]_[0-9][0-9]_[0-9][0-9]_[0-9][0-9]_[0-9][0-9]'
for f in *$pat*.{csv,xml}; do echo mv "$f" "${f/$pat}"; done
Delete the echo if the output looks fine.
With bash Something like:
shopt -s nullglob
for f in *.{xml,csv}; do
ext="${f##*.}"
[[ "${f%%_[0-9]*}" = *.#(xml|csv) ]] && continue
echo mv -v -- "$f" "${f%%_[0-9]*}.$ext"
done
With the =~ operator and BASH_REMATCH
shopt -s nullglob
regexp='^(.{1,})(_[[:digit:]]{4}_[[:digit:]]{2}_[[:digit:]]{2}_[[:digit:]]{2}_[[:digit:]]{2})([.].*)$'
for f in *.{xml,csv}; do
[[ "$f" =~ $regexp ]] &&
echo mv -v -- "$f" "${BASH_REMATCH[1]}${BASH_REMATCH[-1]}"
done
Remove the echo if you're satisfied with the output.
Using bash, find, and awk:
Use find to find files with .csv or .xml suffix in the current directory. Pipe the find output to awk and create the mv commands that are output and passed to bash.
bash < <(find * -type f \( -name '*.csv' -o -name '*.xml' \) | awk '{orig=$0; gsub(/_[0-9]{4}_[0-9]{2}_[0-9]{2}_[0-9]{2}_[0-9]{2}/,""); print "mv "orig" "$0}')
Directory contents before:
find * -type f
CD_CategoryTree_2021_02_24_17_14.csv
Campaign_Version_2018_09_24_20_00.xml
Campaign_new.csv
Mobile_Footnote_2021_03_05_16_21.csv
New_Categories.xml
Reference_Categories_2021_02_24_17_14.csv
Directory contents after:
find * -type f
CD_CategoryTree.csv
Campaign_Version.xml
Campaign_new.csv
Mobile_Footnote.csv
New_Categories.xml
Reference_Categories.csv
I am having trouble looping and searching. It seems that the loop is not waiting for the find to finish. What am I doing wrong?
I made a loop the reads a file line by line. I then want to use that "name" to search a directory looking to see if a folder has that name. If it exists copy it to a drive.
#!/bin/bash
DIRFIND="$2"
DIRCOPY="$3"
if [ -d $DIRFIND ]; then
while IFS='' read -r line || [[ -n "$line" ]]; do
echo "$line"
FILE=`find "$DIRFIND" -type d -name "$line"`
if [ -n "$FILE" ]; then
echo "Found $FILE"
cp -a "$FILE" "$DIRCOPY"
else
echo "$line not found."
fi
done < "$1"
else
echo "No such file or directory"
fi
Have you tried xargs...
Proposed Solution
cat filenamelist | xargs -n1 -I {} find . -type d -name {} -print | xargs -n1 -I {} mv {} .
what the above does is pipe a list of filenames into find (one at a time), when found find prints the name and passes to xarg which moves the file...
Expansion
file = yogo
yogo -> | xargs -n1 -I yogo find . -type d -name yogo -print | xargs -n1 -I {} mv ./<path>/yogo .
I hope the above helps, note that xargs has the advantage that you do not run out of command line buffer.
I want to remove all the images which has the name without the "#2x", and I want to write a shell script to finish this. This is what I do:
#!/bin/bash
dir="/Users/me/Workspace/"
cd $dir
all_pngs=`find . -name "*.png" | sort -u`
for png in $all_pngs
do
# echo "$png"
#get the dirname
dirname=`dirname $png`
#get the filename without dir
filename=`basename $png`
#get name without suffix
name=`echo "$filename" | cut -d '.' -f1`
realname=`echo "$name" | grep -v "#2x"`
if [ -n $realname ]; then
echo "$realname"
fi
done
My problem is that I don't know how can I find the name without the "#2x".
I'm not really sure what you're trying to do with the rest of your script, but just something like this should work
find /Users/me/Workspace/ -type f -name '*.png' \! -name '*#2x*' -exec echo rm '{}' +
Remove the echo when you're confident that's what you want.
Since the ! exp has a higher precedence in find than the implied -a between tests and actions the above gets treated as
find /Users/me/Workspace/ (-type f) AND (-name '*.png') AND (! -name '*#2x*') AND (-exec echo rm '{}' +)
You have used many unwanted operation in your for loop which are not necessary( but exactly any purpose of it?). You need simple logic in your for..loop as below. OR in one sentence you can use nice answer given by #BroSlow
You can check if your file name contain "#2x" or not like
if [[ $png = *#2x* ]] //Yes it contain "#2x"
then
echo "File name contain #2x keep as it is."
else
//remove file // rm -f $png
fi
Using grep
if grep -o "#2x" <<<"$png" >/dev/null
then
echo "File name contain #2x keep as it is."
else
//remove file // rm -f $png
fi
I have been looking for a way to list file that do not exist from a list of files that are required to exist. The files can exist in more than one location. What I have now:
#!/bin/bash
fileslist="$1"
while read fn
do
if [ ! -f `find . -type f -name $fn ` ];
then
echo $fn
fi
done < $fileslist
If a file does not exist the find command will not print anything and the test does not work. Removing the not and creating an if then else condition does not resolve the problem.
How can i print the filenames that are not found from a list of file names?
New script:
#!/bin/bash
fileslist="$1"
foundfiles="~/tmp/tmp`date +%Y%m%d%H%M%S`.txt"
touch $foundfiles
while read fn
do
`find . -type f -name $fn | sed 's:./.*/::' >> $foundfiles`
done < $fileslist
cat $fileslist $foundfiles | sort | uniq -u
rm $foundfiles
#!/bin/bash
fileslist="$1"
while read fn
do
FPATH=`find . -type f -name $fn`
if [ "$FPATH." = "." ]
then
echo $fn
fi
done < $fileslist
You were close!
Here is test.bash:
#!/bin/bash
fn=test.bash
exists=`find . -type f -name $fn`
if [ -n "$exists" ]
then
echo Found it
fi
It sets $exists = to the result of the find. the if -n checks if the result is not null.
Try replacing body with [[ -z "$(find . -type f -name $fn)" ]] && echo $fn. (note that this code is bound to have problems with filenames containing spaces).
More efficient bashism:
diff <(sort $fileslist|uniq) <(find . -type f -printf %f\\n|sort|uniq)
I think you can handle diff output.
Give this a try:
find -type f -print0 | grep -Fzxvf - requiredfiles.txt
The -print0 and -z protect against filenames which contain newlines. If your utilities don't have these options and your filenames don't contain newlines, you should be OK.
The repeated find to filter one file at a time is very expensive. If your file list is directly compatible with the output from find, run a single find and remove any matches from your list:
find . -type f |
fgrep -vxf - "$1"
If not, maybe you can massage the output from find in the pipeline before the fgrep so that it matches the format in your file; or, conversely, massage the data in your file into find-compatible.
I use this script and it works for me
#!/bin/bash
fileslist="$1"
found="Found:"
notfound="Not found:"
len=`cat $1 | wc -l`
n=0;
while read fn
do
# don't worry about this, i use it to display the file list progress
n=$((n + 1))
echo -en "\rLooking $(echo "scale=0; $n * 100 / $len" | bc)% "
if [ $(find / -name $fn | wc -l) -gt 0 ]
then
found=$(printf "$found\n\t$fn")
else
notfound=$(printf "$notfound\n\t$fn")
fi
done < $fileslist
printf "\n$found\n$notfound\n"
The line counts the number of lines and if its greater than 0 the find was a success. This searches everything on the hdd. You could replace / with . for just the current directory.
$(find / -name $fn | wc -l) -gt 0
Then i simply run it with the files in the files list being separated by newline
./search.sh files.list
I need to loop through a directory recursively and remove all files with extension .pdf and .doc. I'm managing to loop through a directory recursively but not managing to filter the files with the above mentioned file extensions.
My code so far
#/bin/sh
SEARCH_FOLDER="/tmp/*"
for f in $SEARCH_FOLDER
do
if [ -d "$f" ]
then
for ff in $f/*
do
echo "Processing $ff"
done
else
echo "Processing file $f"
fi
done
I need help to complete the code, since I'm not getting anywhere.
As a followup to mouviciel's answer, you could also do this as a for loop, instead of using xargs. I often find xargs cumbersome, especially if I need to do something more complicated in each iteration.
for f in $(find /tmp -name '*.pdf' -or -name '*.doc'); do rm $f; done
As a number of people have commented, this will fail if there are spaces in filenames. You can work around this by temporarily setting the IFS (internal field seperator) to the newline character. This also fails if there are wildcard characters \[?* in the file names. You can work around that by temporarily disabling wildcard expansion (globbing).
IFS=$'\n'; set -f
for f in $(find /tmp -name '*.pdf' -or -name '*.doc'); do rm "$f"; done
unset IFS; set +f
If you have newlines in your filenames, then that won't work either. You're better off with an xargs based solution:
find /tmp \( -name '*.pdf' -or -name '*.doc' \) -print0 | xargs -0 rm
(The escaped brackets are required here to have the -print0 apply to both or clauses.)
GNU and *BSD find also has a -delete action, which would look like this:
find /tmp \( -name '*.pdf' -or -name '*.doc' \) -delete
find is just made for that.
find /tmp -name '*.pdf' -or -name '*.doc' | xargs rm
Without find:
for f in /tmp/* tmp/**/* ; do
...
done;
/tmp/* are files in dir and /tmp/**/* are files in subfolders. It is possible that you have to enable globstar option (shopt -s globstar).
So for the question the code should look like this:
shopt -s globstar
for f in /tmp/*.pdf /tmp/*.doc tmp/**/*.pdf tmp/**/*.doc ; do
rm "$f"
done
Note that this requires bash ≥4.0 (or zsh without shopt -s globstar, or ksh with set -o globstar instead of shopt -s globstar). Furthermore, in bash <4.3, this traverses symbolic links to directories as well as directories, which is usually not desirable.
If you want to do something recursively, I suggest you use recursion (yes, you can do it using stacks and so on, but hey).
recursiverm() {
for d in *; do
if [ -d "$d" ]; then
(cd -- "$d" && recursiverm)
fi
rm -f *.pdf
rm -f *.doc
done
}
(cd /tmp; recursiverm)
That said, find is probably a better choice as has already been suggested.
Here is an example using shell (bash):
#!/bin/bash
# loop & print a folder recusively,
print_folder_recurse() {
for i in "$1"/*;do
if [ -d "$i" ];then
echo "dir: $i"
print_folder_recurse "$i"
elif [ -f "$i" ]; then
echo "file: $i"
fi
done
}
# try get path from param
path=""
if [ -d "$1" ]; then
path=$1;
else
path="/tmp"
fi
echo "base path: $path"
print_folder_recurse $path
This doesn't answer your question directly, but you can solve your problem with a one-liner:
find /tmp \( -name "*.pdf" -o -name "*.doc" \) -type f -exec rm {} +
Some versions of find (GNU, BSD) have a -delete action which you can use instead of calling rm:
find /tmp \( -name "*.pdf" -o -name "*.doc" \) -type f -delete
For bash (since version 4.0):
shopt -s globstar nullglob dotglob
echo **/*".ext"
That's all.
The trailing extension ".ext" there to select files (or dirs) with that extension.
Option globstar activates the ** (search recursivelly).
Option nullglob removes an * when it matches no file/dir.
Option dotglob includes files that start wit a dot (hidden files).
Beware that before bash 4.3, **/ also traverses symbolic links to directories which is not desirable.
This method handles spaces well.
files="$(find -L "$dir" -type f)"
echo "Count: $(echo -n "$files" | wc -l)"
echo "$files" | while read file; do
echo "$file"
done
Edit, fixes off-by-one
function count() {
files="$(find -L "$1" -type f)";
if [[ "$files" == "" ]]; then
echo "No files";
return 0;
fi
file_count=$(echo "$files" | wc -l)
echo "Count: $file_count"
echo "$files" | while read file; do
echo "$file"
done
}
This is the simplest way I know to do this:
rm **/#(*.doc|*.pdf)
** makes this work recursively
#(*.doc|*.pdf) looks for a file ending in pdf OR doc
Easy to safely test by replacing rm with ls
The following function would recursively iterate through all the directories in the \home\ubuntu directory( whole directory structure under ubuntu ) and apply the necessary checks in else block.
function check {
for file in $1/*
do
if [ -d "$file" ]
then
check $file
else
##check for the file
if [ $(head -c 4 "$file") = "%PDF" ]; then
rm -r $file
fi
fi
done
}
domain=/home/ubuntu
check $domain
There is no reason to pipe the output of find into another utility. find has a -delete flag built into it.
find /tmp -name '*.pdf' -or -name '*.doc' -delete
The other answers provided will not include files or directories that start with a . the following worked for me:
#/bin/sh
getAll()
{
local fl1="$1"/*;
local fl2="$1"/.[!.]*;
local fl3="$1"/..?*;
for inpath in "$1"/* "$1"/.[!.]* "$1"/..?*; do
if [ "$inpath" != "$fl1" -a "$inpath" != "$fl2" -a "$inpath" != "$fl3" ]; then
stat --printf="%F\0%n\0\n" -- "$inpath";
if [ -d "$inpath" ]; then
getAll "$inpath"
#elif [ -f $inpath ]; then
fi;
fi;
done;
}
I think the most straightforward solution is to use recursion, in the following example, I have printed all the file names in the directory and its subdirectories.
You can modify it according to your needs.
#!/bin/bash
printAll() {
for i in "$1"/*;do # for all in the root
if [ -f "$i" ]; then # if a file exists
echo "$i" # print the file name
elif [ -d "$i" ];then # if a directroy exists
printAll "$i" # call printAll inside it (recursion)
fi
done
}
printAll $1 # e.g.: ./printAll.sh .
OUTPUT:
> ./printAll.sh .
./demoDir/4
./demoDir/mo st/1
./demoDir/m2/1557/5
./demoDir/Me/nna/7
./TEST
It works fine with spaces as well!
Note:
You can use echo $(basename "$i") # print the file name to print the file name without its path.
OR: Use echo ${i%/##*/}; # print the file name which runs extremely faster, without having to call the external basename.
Just do
find . -name '*.pdf'|xargs rm
If you can change the shell used to run the command, you can use ZSH to do the job.
#!/usr/bin/zsh
for file in /tmp/**/*
do
echo $file
done
This will recursively loop through all files/folders.
The following will loop through the given directory recursively and list all the contents :
for d in /home/ubuntu/*;
do
echo "listing contents of dir: $d";
ls -l $d/;
done