I am new to Bash scripting.
I have a main directory called Photos which has many subdirectories like People, Places and Things. Each of these subdirectories is populated by other subdirectories and lots of JPG photo images.
The digital cameras name the files in a way that is difficult to manage with web hosting.
I would like to go to each directory and subdirectory and rename the photos 1.jpg, 2.jpg, 3.jpg, etc. so that I can use a simple XML template to access them by specifying only a hosting directory.
I tried to use the following script:
#! /bin/bash
cd /home/paul/test
find . -name "*.jpg" -print0 | rename -v 's/.+/our $i; sprintf("%d.jpg", 1+$i++)/e' * -vn
exit 0
It successfully renames all of the files in all of the directories, but it does not restart the numbering for each new subdirectory. So first it goes through Photos and renames the three JPG files there 1.jpg, 2.jpg and 3. jpg, and then it opens the first subdirectory People and names the three JPG files there 4.jpg, 5.jpg and 6.jpg. Next it moves to the next subdirectory and continues sequential renaming until it is done.
I want it to restart sequential renaming with each new subdirectory, so that after renaming the three JPG files in Photos to 1.jpg, 2.jpg and 3.jpg, it moves to the first subdirectory and renames the JPG files there starting with 1.jpg again.
That way I use the links 1.jpg, 2.jpg, 3.jpg, etc in the XML template and just change the directory name to download the photos from the web.
Thanks for any help you can give me.
I'm in the need of building a script to clean up my media library. I've been PVR'ing for years now and it's time to clean things up. For example, my TV Shows are saved as such:
/media/storage/Show Name/Season 1/Show Name - S01E01 - Episode Name.mp4
Over the years I've created a bunch of subdirectories further than that and I want to go through and clean those out. For example, the following directory might exist:
/media/storage/Show Name/Season 1/subtitles
If I use the find command, with -type d and -maxdepth 4, I have discovered that the subdirectory I want to delete is in the 4th level. There should be nothing valid in the 4th level and okay to delete.
I don't really know where to start. I tried using the find command with -mindepth 4 but that doesn't seem to work as I would expect. Basically, I want to scan through the library, then I want to test to make sure that the directory isn't "Season XX" and if it is a subdirectory within Season X then I would like to delete that subdirectory.
Any ideas how I can accomplish this?
FYI: I'm using Korrora 21 with BASH.
hello,
I am trying to rename the file by adding .txt extension and also
before renaming, I want to replace . in file with _
right now file looks like this mdm.201504021628
after execution of my script file name should be mdm_201504021628.txt
#!bin/bash
//reading all files from directory
files=$(hadoop fs
-ls /dl/data/landing/hivedb/lnd_attunity_kpi_db_backup/auth_master |
awk '!/^d/ {print $8}')
for f in $files; do
//using sed to replace . with _ and then feeding to hadoop fs command
sed 's/./\_/g' $f | hadoop fs -mv $f $f.txt
done
Thanks for your help in advance.
Hello Folks.
I'm searching for a easy way to rename multiple files from CLI but didn't find any easy way for me so I'm reaching out to you guys for help.
This is what I want to do (from CLII or script). I want to move files with a sequence number on the name of the files (msg0000, msg0001, msg0002 and so on) to let's say msg0066, msg0067 and so on. Each of this file name has two other files (msg0000.wav, msg0000.WAV and msg0000.txt).
The idea is to move them from one directory to another and following a sequence in the file names, is there a way I can do this pain free?
Any help on this matter will be greatly appreciates and I'm talking about over 100 files I need to move following the sequence of the receiving directory.
Thanks!
Hello everyone!
Can anyone help me in how to work the chmod command?
Suppose that you have a directory of udir12, a subdirectory udir121 (under udir12) and a file called file131 under directory udir121.
How do you change permission for the directory udir12 and all subdirectory and files to 770?
Can anyone help me out please!!!
Thanks
Carlos
Hello everyone!
I wonder if you can help me with the following:
If you have the following directory and subdirectories,
UDIR1 ---MAIN DIRECTORY
under UDIR1 there is two subdirectories: UDIR11 AND UDIR12
under UDIR11 there is a subdirectory: UDIR111
under UDIR12 there are two subdirectories: UDIR121 and UDIR122
Given the above scenario:
1- How to create a soft link of the directory UDIR111 under the directory UDIR12, and then how do you name the soft link UDIR111-sl
Thanks so muchhhhhhhhhh to anyone who can help!!
Regards,
Carlos
I'm just getting into Bash scripting, and would appreciate some help with this question. My music collection is split into a smaller, "active" set, kept on my laptop, and a much larger collection on an external hard drive. I've just converted some of the larger filetypes on my "active" set to *.mp3, and now want to move all the original files (*.flac) to the external hard drive. I need some help putting together a command or script that will recursively search my active music set for *.flac and then move them, but keeping the source directory structure. Some or all of these subdirectories may not exist on the destination.
eg. On the active music set, I may have:
/Music/artist1/album1/(a mix of *.mp3 and *.flac files)
/Music/artist2/album1/(a mix of *.mp3 and *.flac files)
and on the hard drive
/Music 2/artist1/album2/(the contents of the album)
So when copying, it'll need to create "/album1/" in "artist1" on the destination, and also "/artist2/album1/"
Thanks in advance!
Hello, I have an embedded linux device. I can connect to the device and I can upload or download files. No problem with this. But, at first connection, I want to connect to "/" directory instead of "/root". In the device file system, there are files ssh_config and sshd_config under /etc/ssh directory. I think I have to do something with these files but I don't know what.
I don't exactly know what mean "/root" and "/" directories. I think that the real root directory is "/" directory which is empty but when I connect with filezilla, the "/root" directory is the default so I had to go back to / directory everytime.
Hello,
I am setting up a linux server for gaming and I am using a script to update the files automatically and create a folder with a certain name.
Code:
# !/bin/bash
# A convenience function, to save us some work
update_server() {
# Read the app id and the directory into a variable
APP_ID=$1
DIR=$2
# Create the directory ( if it does not exist already )
if [ ! -d "$HOME/$DIR" ]; then
mkdir -p "$HOME/$DIR"
fi
# Uh-oh, it looks like we still have no directory. Report an error.
if [ ! -d "$HOME/$DIR" ]; then
# Describe what went wrong
echo "ERROR! Cannot create directory $HOME/$DIR!"
# Exit with status code 1 ( which indicates an error )
exit 1
fi
# Call SteamCMD with the app ID we provided and tell it to install
./bin/steamcmd.sh +login anonymous +force_install_dir "$HOME/$DIR" +app_update $APP_ID validate +quit
}
# Now the script actually runs update_server ( which we just declared above ) with the id of the application ( 4020 is Garry's Mod ) and the name of the directory we want the server to be hosted from:
update_server 4020 "gmodserver"
exit 0
When I run this script, it creates 2 folders on my server : gmodserver and gmodserver? There is no files downloaded in gmodserver. All the files are downloaded in gmodserver?
I looked for a few hours on how to solve this problem but I have no idea what the added ? might be so I am lost as to what to look for. Could you help me on figuring this out?
Thank you.
edit : I am using ubuntu 15.04 x64 if it makes a difference.
Hello all.
I have 100 sub-directories that "rar" files exist in them, How can I move all rar files into parent directory?
I used "find sourcedir -type f -exec mv {} targetdir \; " but i just copy one file and all files deleted
Thank you.
I have a directory structure and files I wish to change permissions on, but I don't want to change permissions on every file/subfolder along the way. Example: I want to chown all files in dir4 where my directory struture is:
/dir1/dir2/dir3/dir4/*
However, both dir3 and dir4 are owned by root:root so I need to change the ownership on those directories as well. But, if I do:
chown -R user:group /dir1/dir2/dir3/dir4/
...it will indeed make dir4 and it's files accessible, but it doesn't change dir3 - so folks still can't get to the files they need. I thought about doing:
chown -R user:group /dir1/dir2/dir3*
... but that will give users access not only to dir4 and it's files, but any other files under dir3 which I don't want.
My work around has been to do a chown on /dir1/dir2/dir3 and then a second chown on /dir1/dir2/dir3/dir4/, but I am thinking there has to be a way to do what I want in a single chown command - right?