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
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" "$dir/"
done
Example directory/files structure:
ls -1 dir/*.jar
dir/paper-279.jar
dir/paper.jar
Running the script above:
chmod +x ./files2folder
./files2folder dir/*.jar
Output:
mkdir -p -- dir/paper-279
mv -n -- dir/paper-279.jar dir/paper-279/
mkdir -p -- dir/paper
mv -n -- dir/paper.jar dir/paper/
To make it actually create the directories and move the files, remove all echo
I am not able to find a way to make bash create a file with the same name as the file the user dragged into the terminal.
read -p 'file: ' file
if [ "$file" -eq "" ]; then
cd desktop
mkdir
fi
I am trying to make this part of the script take the name of the file they dragged in so for example /Users/admin/Desktop/test.app cd into it copy the "contents" file make another folder with the same name so test.app for this example and then paste the contents file into that folder and delete the old file.
From your .app example, I assume you are using MacOS. Therefore you will need to test this script yourself since I don't have MacOS, but I think it should be doing what you want. Execute it as bash script.sh and it will give you your desired directory test.app/contents in the current working directory.
#! /bin/bash
read -rp 'file: ' file
if [ -e "$file" ]; then
if [ -e "$file"/contents ]; then
base=$(basename "$file")
mkdir "$base"
cp -R "$file"/contents "$base"
rm -rf "$file"
else
echo "The specified file $file has no directory 'contents'."
fi
else
echo "The specified file $file does not exist."
fi
I have a bash script, which goes through list of directories and if some directory contains zip files it bind zip file name into variable and perform some actions over it and then goes to another in this dir. Unfortunately, it works when there is one zip file per directory. If more - it gives error "Binary operator expected"
Script:
if [ -e $currdir/*.zip ]; then
for file in $currdir/*.zip; do
echo the zip is "${file##*/}"
done
Please help me to rework script accordingly.
If you need exactly check then you can use:
if [[ -n $(echo "$currdir"/*.zip) ]]; then
for f in "$currdir"/*.zip; do
echo "Processing $f file..";
done
fi
But I'd prefer just looping over files that contain *.zip extension:
for f in "$currdir"/*.zip; do
echo "Processing $f file..";
done
Use
for file in "$currdir"/*.zip; do
[ -e "$file" ] || continue
echo the zip is "${file##*/}"
done
As pointed out in the comments the glob will happen in the shell, then [ is called with the output, i.e:
[ -e * ]
will become:
[ -e Desktop Documents Downloads ... ]
Therefore trying to expand and checking in the for iteration will work.
Please see: http://mywiki.wooledge.org/WordSplitting and http://wiki.bash-hackers.org/syntax/expansion/globs
I think the case construct is too often overlooked.
case *.jpg in *.jpg ) echo found files ;; * ) echo no files found ;; esac
produces the correct message in my dir with 1000s+ jpgs ;-)
Change both references from jpg to zip and see if it works for you.
IHTH
I have a file that contains some keywords and I intend to create subdirectories into the same directory of the same keyword using a bash script. Here is the code I am using but it doesn't seem to be working.
I don't know where I have gone wrong. Help me out
for i in `cat file.txt`
do
# if [[ ! -e $path/$i ]]; then
echo "creating" $i "directory"
mkdir $path/$i
# fi
grep $i file >> $path/$i/output.txt
done
echo "created the files in "$path/$TEMP/output.txt
You've gone wrong here, and you've gone wrong here.
while read i
do
echo "Creating $i directory"
mkdir "$path/$i"
grep "$i" file >> "$path/$i"/output.txt
done < file.txt
echo "created the files in $path/$TEMP/output.txt"
78mkdir will refuse to create a directory, if parts of it do not exist.
e.g. if there is no /foo/bar directory, then mkdir /foo/bar/baz will fail.
you can relax this a bit by using the -p flag, which will create parent directories if necessary (in the example, it might create /foo and /foo/bar).
you should also use quotes, in case your paths contain blanks.
mkdir -p "${path}/${i}"
finally, make sure that you are actually allowed to create directories in $path
I have a simple loop in my Shell Script and want to be able to run another loop for each file in the directory...right now I am just asking for it to echo each file but I do want to do more with each file, but want to figure this out first...
for dir in "$#/"*
do
folder=$(basename "$dir")
path="/Users/wme/Desktop/test3/"
if [ ! -d "$path$folder" ]; then
mkdir "$path$folder"
mkdir "$path$folder/mp4"
mkdir "$path$folder/mov"
mkdir "$path$folder/ogg"
mkdir "$path$folder/webm"
mkdir "$path$folder/img"
fi
for file in "$dir/"*
echo $file
done
done
So essentially it is finding all the directories creating a folder structure for those folders, and now I need to go and process the movies in each of those folders...but I get an error when I try to do the second nested loop, what am I doing wrong?
Also it should be noted I am running this in Automator so it doesn't really give me an error, just says action failed
You will also have an issue with your first for loop. "$#/"* will expand to $1 $2 ... $n/*, not $1/* $2/* ... $n/*. You'll need
path="/Users/wme/Desktop/test3"
for dir in "$#"; do
for subdir in "$dir/"*; do
folder=$(basename "$subdir")
if [ ! -d "$path/$folder" ]; then
for ftype in mp4 mov ogg webm img; do
mkdir -p "$path/$folder/$ftype"
done
fi
for file in "$subdir/"*
echo $file
done
done