I need a shell script that writes the tree structure (including all data in the folders) from a specific folder to a text/dat file.
So far I got this:
find . -type f|sed 's_\.\/__' > PATH/Input.dat
I dont want a "/" as the first char of the path.
This script works fine, but it returns ALL folder structures. I need something that returns only structures from a specific folder, like "Sales".
I need something that returns only structures from a specific folder,
like "Sales".
Specify the desired folder name. Say:
find Sales -type f | sed 's_\.\/__'
^^^^^
Saying find . ... would search in . (i.e. the current directory and subdirectories).
If you need to search more folders, say Purchase, specify those too:
find Sales Purchase -type f | sed 's_\.\/__'
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I have a script which makes some files in pair (all the resulting files have either R1 OR R2 in the file name) and then put each pair in a separate directory with random name (every time will be different and I cannot predict). for example if I have 6 files, 3 files would be file_R1.txt or file_R2.txt but in pair like this example:
s1_R1.txt and s1_R2.txt
s2_R1.txt and s2_R2.txt
s3_R1.txt and s3_R2.txt
In this example I will have 3 directories (one per pair of files). I want to make 2 text file (d1.txt and. d2.txt) containing above file names. In fact, d1.txt will have all the files with R1 and d2.txt will contain all the files with R2. To do so, I made the following short bash code but it does not return what I want. Do you know how to fix it?
For file in /./*R*.txt;
do;
touch "s1.txt"
touch "s2.txt"
echo "${fastq}" >> "s1.txt"
done
Weird question, not sure I get it, but for your d1 and d2 files:
#!/bin/bash
find . -type f -name "*R1*" -print >d1.txt
find . -type f -name "*R2*" -print >d2.txt
find is used since you have files under different sub-directories.
Using > ensures the text files are emptied out if they already exist.
Note the code you put in your question is not valid bash.
I was wondering how to move a number of folders to another one, according to the filename of a file inside each of the folders.
I mean, let's assume I have a big amount of folders, each one with a name starting by 'folder*', each one containing 3 files. Specifically one the files contains a string which might be '-100', '-200' or '-300' for example.
I want to move the folders containing the files according to this strings, and put them in a folder called 'string'. For example, to put every folder containing a file which contains the string '-100' into the folder 'FOLDER1'I'm trying something like:
find folder* -name '100' -exec mv {} folder* FOLDER1
but it returns -bash: /usr/bin/find: Argument list too long.
How can I pass less arguments to find at every step so I don't get this.
Thank in advance.
Best.
Using your example, and running in the topmost folder containing all the folders, I believe that what you need is this:
grep -rlw folder* -e "-100" | xargs -I % mv % FOLDER1
I need to get the contents of a folder via mac console window
and put into a text file via >output.txt:
existing structure looks like:
folder/index.html
folder/images/backpack.png
folder/shared/bootstrap/fonts/helvertica.eot
folder/css/fonts/helverticabold.eot
folder/shared/css/astyle.css
folder/js/libs/jquery-ui-1.10.4/jquery-ui.min.js",
folder/js/libs/jquery.tipsy.js
folder/js/libs/raphael.js
what I want looks would look like this (the folder is missing):
index.html
images/backpack.png
shared/bootstrap/fonts/helvertica.eot
css/fonts/helverticabold.eot
shared/css/astyle.css
js/libs/jquery-ui-1.10.4/jquery-ui.min.js
js/libs/jquery.tipsy.js
js/libs/raphael.js
No css/fonts or js/libs or css folders listed
i.e. no folders….. and no formatting like
/folder/shared/css/astyle.css Or
./folder/shared/css/astyle.css
even better would be with parens and commas:
“index.html”,
“images/backpack.png”,
“shared/bootstrap/fonts/helvertica.eot”,
“css/fonts/helverticabold.eot”,
“shared/css/astyle.css”,
“js/libs/jquery-ui-1.10.4/jquery-ui.min.js”,
“js/libs/jquery.tipsy.js”,
“js/libs/raphael.js”
As I want to make a json document. Is this possible?
Thanks.
This is the sort of task that find is good at:
% find folder -type f | sed -e 's,folder/,",' -e 's/$/",/'
You might be able to adjust the 's,folder/,",' substitution by, say
(cd folder; find . -type f) | sed 's/\(.*\)/"\1",/'
Further refinements are an exercise for the reader!
I am trying to figure out a way to search a directory for a file older than 365 days. If it finds a match, I'd like it to both delete the file and locate any other files in the directory that have the same basename, and delete those as well.
File name examples: 12345.pdf (Search for) then delete, 12345_a.pdf, 12345_xyz.pdf (delete if exist).
Thanks! I am very new to BASH scripting, so patience is appreciated ;-))
I doubt this can be done cleanly in a single pass.
Your best bet is to use -mtime or a variant to collect names and then use another find command to delete files matching those names.
UPDATE
With respect to your comment, I mean something like:
# find basenames of old files
find .... -printf '%f\n' | sort -u > oldfiles
for file in ($<oldfiles); do find . -name $file -exec rm; done
Tricky question for a bash noob like me, but i'm sure this this easier that it seems to me.
I'm currently using the find command as follows :
run "find #{current_release}/migration/ -name '*.sql'| sort -n | xargs cat >#{current_release}/#{stamp}.sql"
in my capistrano recipe.
Problem is #{current_release}/migration/ contains subfolders, and I'd like the find command to include only one of these, depending on it's name (that I know, it's based on the target environment.
As a recap, folder structure is
Folder
|- sub1
|- sub2
and i'm trying to make a find specifying to recurse ONLY on sub1 for example. I'm sure this is possible, just couldn't find how.
Thanks.
Simply specify the directory you want as argument to find, e.g. find #{current_release}/migration/sub1 ....
EDIT: As per your clarification, you should use the -maxdepth argument for find, to limit the recursion depth. So, for example, you can use find firstdir firstdir/sub1 -maxdepth 1.
You just need to append that to your find invocation:
find #{current_release}/migration/sub_you_want -name ...
Depending on how you make the determination of the sub-directory you want, you should be able to script that as well.