In stead of reinventing the wheel, someone has to have needed to do
this in the past. Does this command line code exist somewhere I can
download/look at.
I have a directory with over a hundred directories of images in them.
I need to copy all the .png, .gif. JPEG, .jpg files to another
directory in order to burn a CD for a slide show at a Christmas
party.
Can anyone help
TIA
Dave
On 2007-11-24, Dave Kelly wrote:
>
>
> In stead of reinventing the wheel, someone has to have needed to do
> this in the past. Does this command line code exist somewhere I can
> download/look at.
>
> I have a directory with over a hundred directories of images in them.
> I need to copy all the .png, .gif. JPEG, .jpg files to another
> directory in order to burn a CD for a slide show at a Christmas
> party.
If just copying them to the other directory is fine:
cp ./*.png ./*.gif ./*.JPEG ./*.jpg /path/to/other/directory
You may also want to look at mkisofs.
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Dave Kelly
> In stead of reinventing the wheel, someone has to have needed to do
> this in the past. Does this command line code exist somewhere I can
> download/look at.
>
> I have a directory with over a hundred directories of images in them.
> I need to copy all the .png, .gif. JPEG, .jpg files to another
> directory in order to burn a CD for a slide show at a Christmas
> party.
find -name '*.jpg' -o -name '*.jpeg' | xargs cp --target-directory=/tmp/myporn
or
cp */*.{jpg,jpeg} /tmp/myporn
:-)
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Chris and William...........
I may have worded my problem badly.
> > I have a directory with over a hundred directories of images in them.
Does you examples step down into each directory? Return to the main
directory and continue looking for the next directory?
Thanks for the feedback.
Dave
Dave Kelly wrote:
> Chris and William...........
>
> I may have worded my problem badly.
>
>
>>>I have a directory with over a hundred directories of images in them.
>
>
> Does you examples step down into each directory? Return to the main
> directory and continue looking for the next directory?
William's 'find' example collects the files from all subdirectories;
wasn't that what you wanted? Did you try the suggestions?
Janis
>
> Thanks for the feedback.
> Dave
>
>
On Nov 24, 4:40 pm, Janis Papanagnou
wrote:
> William's 'find' example collects the files from all subdirectories;
> wasn't that what you wanted? Did you try the suggestions?
>
> Janis
T hat is exactly what I want. No I did not try the suggestion because
of my ignorance of how find works.
Will do so immediatly.
If things do not work as expected, I will come back for further
education. Otherwise assume everything is as it should be. ( As it is
in all cases where there in no operator error.)
Let me say thanks to everyone on this group for all the help they have
given me over the past 8 years. This old man appreciates it.
Dave
On Nov 24, 4:40 pm, Janis Papanagnou
wrote:
> William's 'find' example collects the files from all subdirectories;
> wasn't that what you wanted? Did you try the suggestions?
>
> Janis
>
Tried this:
find -name '{*.jpg,*.png,*.JPG,*.gif}' -o -name
'{*.jpg,*.png,*.JPG,*.gif}' | xargs cp --target-directory=~/
xmasparty07
And got this error
cp: missing file argument
Tried this:
SilverNail:~/tffwebsite/httpdocs/images# find -name '*.jpg' -o -name
'*.jpg' | xargs cp --target-directory=~/xmasparty07
And got this error
cp: `~/xmasparty07': specified destination directory does not exist
Tried this:
find -name '*.jpg' --o name '*.jpg' | xargs cp --target-directory=/
root/xmasparty07
And got this error
cp: cannot stat `enhanced': No such file or directory
cp: cannot stat `1.jpg': No such file or directory
cp: cannot stat `./Belize2005/Norbert': No such file or directory
cp: cannot stat `Bonefish': No such file or directory
cp: cannot stat `at': No such file or directory
So I tried --o name "'*.jpg'" and -o name '"*.jpg"' and
still get the cannot stat errors.
On Sun, 25 Nov 2007 17:28:35 -0800 (PST), Dave Kelly
| On Nov 24, 4:40 pm, Janis Papanagnou
| wrote:
|> William's 'find' example collects the files from all subdirectories;
|> wasn't that what you wanted? Did you try the suggestions?
|>
|> Janis
|>
| Tried this:
| find -name '{*.jpg,*.png,*.JPG,*.gif}' -o -name
| '{*.jpg,*.png,*.JPG,*.gif}' | xargs cp --target-directory=~/
| xmasparty07
| And got this error
| cp: missing file argument
|
| Tried this:
| SilverNail:~/tffwebsite/httpdocs/images# find -name '*.jpg' -o -name
| '*.jpg' | xargs cp --target-directory=~/xmasparty07
| And got this error
| cp: `~/xmasparty07': specified destination directory does not exist
|
| Tried this:
| find -name '*.jpg' --o name '*.jpg' | xargs cp --target-directory=/
| root/xmasparty07
| And got this error
| cp: cannot stat `enhanced': No such file or directory
| cp: cannot stat `1.jpg': No such file or directory
| cp: cannot stat `./Belize2005/Norbert': No such file or directory
| cp: cannot stat `Bonefish': No such file or directory
| cp: cannot stat `at': No such file or directory
|
| So I tried --o name "'*.jpg'" and -o name '"*.jpg"' and
| still get the cannot stat errors.
The stat errors look like the typical result of files with spaces in
their names. Find locates them correctly, but xargs breaks them up on
the space characters.
Assuming your versions support the options, try this:
find -name '*.jpg' -o -name '*.gif' -print0 | \
xargs -0 cp --target-directory=/root/xmasparty07
The '-print0' and '-0' contain a numeric 0, not the upper case letter O
This uses a NULL character (ASCII zero) as the word separator instead of
spaces.
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On 26 Nov., 02:28, Dave Kelly
> On Nov 24, 4:40 pm, Janis Papanagnou
> wrote:> William's 'find' example collects the files from all subdirectories;
> > wasn't that what you wanted? Did you try the suggestions?
>
> > Janis
>
> Tried this:
> find -name '{*.jpg,*.png,*.JPG,*.gif}' -o -name
> '{*.jpg,*.png,*.JPG,*.gif}' | xargs cp --target-directory=~/
> xmasparty07
> And got this error
> cp: missing file argument
>
> Tried this:
> SilverNail:~/tffwebsite/httpdocs/images# find -name '*.jpg' -o -name
> '*.jpg' | xargs cp --target-directory=~/xmasparty07
> And got this error
> cp: `~/xmasparty07': specified destination directory does not exist
>
> Tried this:
> find -name '*.jpg' --o name '*.jpg' | xargs cp --target-directory=/
> root/xmasparty07
> And got this error
> cp: cannot stat `enhanced': No such file or directory
> cp: cannot stat `1.jpg': No such file or directory
> cp: cannot stat `./Belize2005/Norbert': No such file or directory
> cp: cannot stat `Bonefish': No such file or directory
> cp: cannot stat `at': No such file or directory
>
> So I tried --o name "'*.jpg'" and -o name '"*.jpg"' and
> still get the cannot stat errors.
Does the man page of your find command specifies to write two slashes
with option -o? Option 'name' requires a slash -name. Quoting of the
find arguments is necessary to prevent the shell to expand the names
to a matching file in the current directory and thereby producing
errors or wrong results; use just one pair of quotes, either single or
double (the latter in case you want to have shell variables inside the
string expanded before find is called). Try
find . -name "*.jpg" -o -name "*.gif" -o -name "*.png" -print0 |
xargs -0 cp --target-directory=/root/xmasparty07
Add more filename (patterns) by using a -o ("or") and -name.
(The 0 is a zero digit in case your font obscures it.)
Janis
The -exec option of find handles spaces in filenames correctly:
find
cp {}
And it also works with non-GNU versions of find and cp.
On 2007-11-26, Dave Kelly
> On Nov 24, 4:40 pm, Janis Papanagnou
> wrote:
>> William's 'find' example collects the files from all subdirectories;
>> wasn't that what you wanted? Did you try the suggestions?
>>
>> Janis
>>
> Tried this:
> find -name '{*.jpg,*.png,*.JPG,*.gif}' -o -name
> '{*.jpg,*.png,*.JPG,*.gif}' | xargs cp --target-directory=~/
> xmasparty07
> And got this error
> cp: missing file argument
>
> Tried this:
> SilverNail:~/tffwebsite/httpdocs/images# find -name '*.jpg' -o -name
> '*.jpg' | xargs cp --target-directory=~/xmasparty07
> And got this error
> cp: `~/xmasparty07': specified destination directory does not exist
>
> Tried this:
> find -name '*.jpg' --o name '*.jpg' | xargs cp --target-directory=/
> root/xmasparty07
> And got this error
> cp: cannot stat `enhanced': No such file or directory
> cp: cannot stat `1.jpg': No such file or directory
> cp: cannot stat `./Belize2005/Norbert': No such file or directory
> cp: cannot stat `Bonefish': No such file or directory
> cp: cannot stat `at': No such file or directory
>
> So I tried --o name "'*.jpg'" and -o name '"*.jpg"' and
> still get the cannot stat errors.
Try this:
find source_dir/ -iname "*.jpg" -exec cp -v '{}' target_dir/ ';'
find source_dir/ -iname "*.png" -exec cp -v '{}' target_dir/ ';'
The iname option ignores case.
Remove the -v option from cp, if you want less display (and more speed).
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Douglas Adams
On 2007-11-26, Rikishi 42
> Try this:
> find source_dir/ -iname "*.jpg" -exec cp -v '{}' target_dir/ ';'
> find source_dir/ -iname "*.png" -exec cp -v '{}' target_dir/ ';'
>
> The iname option ignores case.
> Remove the -v option from cp, if you want less display (and more speed).
Some other post taught me the -o option of find, which I didn't know.
So, the following should do:
find source/ -iname "*.jpg" -o -iname "*.png" -exec cp -v '{}' target/ ';'
Have fun!
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in message <5e6fa$4748943c$d1520b22$4446@PRIMUS.CA>,
wrote William Park ...
> Dave Kelly
>> In stead of reinventing the wheel, someone has to have needed to do
>> this in the past. Does this command line code exist somewhere I can
>> download/look at.
>>
>> I have a directory with over a hundred directories of images in them.
>> I need to copy all the .png, .gif. JPEG, .jpg files to another
>> directory in order to burn a CD for a slide show at a Christmas
>> party.
>
> find -name '*.jpg' -o -name '*.jpeg' | xargs cp --target-directory=/tmp/myporn
That find(1)s only the files with suffix of 'jpeg' here on FreeBSD
(6-STABLE). To find files named '*.jpg', need to collect the -name
options ...
find . \( -name '*.jpg' -o -name '*.jpeg' \) -print0 \
| xargs -0 -I % cp % dir
- parv
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parv wrote:
>> find -name '*.jpg' -o -name '*.jpeg' | xargs cp --target-directory=/tmp/myporn
>
> That find(1)s only the files with suffix of 'jpeg' here on FreeBSD
> (6-STABLE).
Really? If true, that's a bug in FreeBSD's find.
With an explicit -print (or -print0) on the end, you would only get
the "*.jpeg" matches:
find . -name '*.jpg' -o -name '*.jpeg' -print # wrong!
but with no action specified, the implicit -print should apply to both.
POSIX says:
... if the given expression does not contain any of the primaries
-exec, -ok, or -print, the given expression shall be effectively
replaced by:
( given_expression ) -print
Of course, implementations that support the non-standard -print0 primary
also include it in the list of primaries that suppress the implicit -print.
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wrote Geoff Clare ...
> parv wrote:
>
>>> find -name '*.jpg' -o -name '*.jpeg' | xargs cp --target-directory=/tmp/myporn
>>
>> That find(1)s only the files with suffix of 'jpeg' here on FreeBSD
>> (6-STABLE).
>
> Really? If true, that's a bug in FreeBSD's find.
>
> With an explicit -print (or -print0) on the end, you would only get
> the "*.jpeg" matches:
>
> find . -name '*.jpg' -o -name '*.jpeg' -print # wrong!
>
> but with no action specified, the implicit -print should apply to both.
Sorry, I was immensly wrong. What you state above is how actually
things work on FreeBSD too. Thanks much for the correction.
- parv
> POSIX says:
>
> ... if the given expression does not contain any of the primaries
> -exec, -ok, or -print, the given expression shall be effectively
> replaced by:
>
> ( given_expression ) -print
>
> Of course, implementations that support the non-standard -print0 primary
> also include it in the list of primaries that suppress the implicit -print.
>
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