This is a bit of a basic question but I'm trying to copy all .doc files I find in a directory and copy them to another directory.I know each command:
find -name '*.doc' .
and:
cp filename location
how can I combine the two commands?
I have a number of crash.log files scattered about my system and I would like to run a command to find all the crash.log files on the system and copy them to a single directory; each with a unique filename. For example, copy crash.log from ~/directory_1 , ~/directory_2 , ~/directory_3 and so on to ~/crash_logs/crash.log1 , ~/crash_logs/crash.log2 , ~/crash_logs/crash.log3 etc.
View 1 Replies View RelatedThis question is very similar to this one except that I want to maintain the file's original subdirectories.
For example if I had
/temp/a/a.txt
/temp/a/a.jpg
/temp/a/b.txt
/temp/b/c.txt
/temp/d/d.txt
/temp/d/d.jpg
/temp/d/e.txt
/temp/f.txt
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I installed a new music application. It reads covers.jpg as the cover of the album, however, my covers files where named album. I dont want to rename, I want to make a copy of album.jpg and if possible as well rename it to covers.jpg. The file has to be in the same folder that it currently is. I have looked around to see how I can do this but have not been able to.
View 14 Replies View RelatedI have four directories and i want to copy only the files in the directory to a single directory, how can i do it with the cp command.
The directories names are dir1, dir2, dir3 and dir4 and i want only the files from these directories to a single directory called mainDir.
I'm quite new to linux but I have configured a simple ftp server and it's working great. I have a FTP-Shared folder with upload and download subfolders. Under upload's and download's I have identical category subfolders like mp3's, movies, software etc. in both. As the guy's upload, I would like to create a line crontab where I can move all the content under /FTP-Shared/upload/mp3/* older than 14 day's to FTP-Shared/downloads/mp3/ recursively (Like in cp command), but the timestamp must be searched on the first directory and not sub files example: /mp3/Club Dance/CD1/Hallo world.mp3This is how far I got:[root@clients ~]# /usr/bin/find /FTP_Shared/upload/Mp3s/ -depth -mindepth 1 -mtime +14 -type d -exec mv -f {} /FTP_Shared/download/Mp3s/ ;This command moves the directory and files, but it is not recursively
View 4 Replies View Relatedi just need to make copy files have 2 year old to another directory i know how to use cp command but i am not able to do that
View 2 Replies View RelatedI am trying to read mulitple files and copy its contents (files) to a respective directory. I have a folder "Oracle". Under this i have mulitple files as mentioned below.
Each of the above has a list of files in them.
Now i have created new directories with the same name as the above files in another location say
The script that i looking at has to read the files from Oracle, backup its contents to its appropriate new directory.
Example:
I want to know how to copy a range of files from one directory to another.
For example say I list the contents of a directory, how would i copy files 5-15 to another directory?
I have directory a and directory b. They are big. b is almost identical to a. "almost" means that 4-5 files differ, and I don't know which they are. I want to copy b over a, but only the files that differ. i'm in bash.(no, I can't simply delete a and replace it with b, because 1) a is version-controlled 2) a full copy (or a mv) would take too much. I want to copy only the files that differ).
View 4 Replies View RelatedI was trying to develop a script which needs to check the count of files on hourly basis and if it find any addition it has to sftp and send a email on the status with filenames and number of files copied via sftp. I will put it on cron to run every hour.
I'll use ls /abc|wc -l to count the no. of lines for the first time and from then whenever a new file will be inserted it'll copy that file to another location or I'll take the date of the files and whichever is having a new date that will be copied to another location.
copy a compact flash card with a form of Linux on it (Found out it was custom version based on Fedora Core 3). The flaky USB card reader seems to have hosed the flash card, it shows up with unknown volume after ejecting the card and reinserting it. My troubleshooting: I have Ubuntu on a flash drive that I used to start all this to read the flash card.
- I tried Disk Utility to reformat the card as Master Boot Record and the volume as ext3 with flag set to Bootable and copied the files using cp in command line.
- I tried ISO Master & mkisofs to make an ISO that the USB thumb drive tools can use, but it wouldn't copy all the files. Looks like symbolic links either were ignored or couldn't find the source file with -f.
- I learned that I might need a boot partition with a boot image, which I think I have in initrd-2.6.14.7img, but I don't know how to do that. Do I also need a swap partition?
My updated goal: using the files from the flash card, make a bootable compact flash card with Fedora Core 3.
I've got a simple command that does almost what I want.
The following will locate all files with a suffix of '_compressed.swf' and copy each into its same directory with a '.bak2' appended:
However, I need to replace '_compressed.swf' with '_content.swf' I'd like to use find, rather than recursive flag on cp for consistency.
Objective
In: /content/somefile_compressed.swf
Out: /content/somefile_content.swf
I have a question which has been in part answered many times but nothing I found relateds completely to my situation. I am sure there will be people who will say RTFM but believe me I did, and searched as well but to no avail. I have a situation where I want to copy files created withing last hour in one directory into another one. The problem is that that the directories are on different levels in the dir tree so the absolute path is different. But I want to keep the relative path the same.
I want to copy new files from /mnt/path_to_webdav/user to /home/user. so if there is new file /mnt/path_to_webdav/user/doc/xy.txt I want it to be copied to /home/user/doc/xy.txt. Also if there is a new dir, say /mnt/path_to_webdav/user/newdir I want a new dir to be created in /home/user/newdir with all the files in it, should there be any. I can do find with exec and copy all the files into one directory.This is not what I want though. How do I preserve the relative path and get the files copied into their corresponding directories?
Use file globbing to copy all the files in the /labs/data directory that end with a .out to the lab05 directory.
Use file globbing to copy all the files in the /labs/data directory that start with a c, d, or n into the lab05 directory.
I am using my media server as my podcast collector. I am in the process of learning the ins and outs of NFS so i can mount a NFS directory and transfer my podcasts from server to player. For now i am using scp to transfer podcasts from server to desktop then to player. The problem is the path to the directory of one of the podcasts is /home/user/gpodder-downloads/The BILL&TIMMY Show Podcast.
whenever i try and run my scp command it fails because it thinks that TIMMY is a script i want to run in the background. I have tried to back-slash escape the character, i've tried single quoting and double quoting the character and i still get the same problem. as it sits now i have to move all podcasts to another directory and then transfer them to my desktop...but i would like to transfer the podcasts without un-necessary steps.
I need to copy all subdirectories and files from one directory to another ever 5 minutes or so, with the old data automatically being overwritten with the new data. I'd also like this to run at startup. Is there any way this can be done? If so, what program would I need to schedule the automation and what is the command line I would need.
View 2 Replies View Relatedi want to copy a few files from my windows directory into the wine directory - its no big deal, just a few preference files so i dont have to set something up all over again. trouble is, i had the files copied, but i cant find the wine/ c: drive directory anywhere, anyone know where this can be found??
View 8 Replies View RelatedAfter i try to find logfiles follow date/month/year. i want copy this files to another directory with name's directory is time you find(date/month/year).
View 4 Replies View RelatedIs it possible to copy files from directory of one user to directory of another user in linux?
View 7 Replies View Relatedi need to know how to find number of files in a directory? is there any system calls in fedora 12.And i need to know how to perform a operation if the that count increases by one?
View 14 Replies View RelatedI am trying find files in a directory that contain numbers. I have tried ls /etc *[0-9]* but that doesn't work. If I cd to /etc and run ls *[0-9]* it almost works but it also includes results from within files. My last thought was to try: find /etc [0-9] -type f but this does not work either. My second problem is that I am trying to get list of files in a directory that were changed less than 10 hours ago, using grep, while leaving out directories. I am completely stuck with the second problem.
View 8 Replies View RelatedAssumed y directory structure looks as follow:
Code:
--root
-- dir1
-- dir1-1
[code]....
And under each sub dir there are some log files ended with .log. Now I know how to list all these log files with:
Code:
find . -type f -name "*.log"
Assumed now there is a string called "Hello World" inside some of these files. How can I find out these files? I try followings but failed
Code:
grep "This is" | find . -mtime 0 -type f -name "*.log"
How to copy text from vmware from linux text terminal in to word document in windows?
View 14 Replies View RelatedI need little help. I want to find all files with extension "*.tar" "*.gz" and "*.zip" and move all those files into "/opt/old" directory. I've tried this command:
Quote:
find . -type f -name "*.tar" "*.gz" "*.zip" -print0 | xargs -0 -r mv /opt/test
It's not working, something wrong after "mv" i guess.
I am looking for Windows Search equivalent looking for file name patterns (not file contents but file names)....
I am aware of "globbing" and wildcard recursive search functionality in ls but I am still not capable of finding files under directories.
for example: I want to find all files starting with a string lsnr* under root directory / and any sub-directories.....
ie I want to look for files like lsnr*.* anywhere under / and any sub-directories under / such as /dir1/dir2/dir4 and dir1/other/dir/someotherdir/sub-dir etc.
so if I have /dir1/lsnrcontrol and also have /dir1/dir/2/dir3/lsnr-tinit.dat then I want to list the files names etc.
how to do this using ls -R and wildcards.
I am using Gpodder for the moment and would like to copy the 3 most recent podcast episodes of every podcast to a second directory (in fact the second directory resides on my android phone, mounted via usb)The setup is as followsGpodder downloads the episodes in
/home/PODCASTS/podcast 1/
/home/PODCASTS/podcast 2/
/home/PODCASTS/podcast 3/
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shell scripting in Fedora14I want a script"Find in curent folder for files, and it copy first file he find with name gived by user, if name already exist then echo error message and finish"command usage " bash scriptname copyASname"
smthing like Code: #!/bin/bash
for files in /home/user/*
do
[code]....
We have two folders: source folder and destination folder. In source folder we have many sub folders and many files of different type!Script that would copy or move defined number of files from source to destination folder. Files must be selected randomly and sub folder in source folders must be selected randomly and we don't copy or move defined number of files just form one sub folder in source folder. In destination folder sub directory structure of source folder should not be preserved. Solution should be robust and as simple as possible.
View 9 Replies View RelatedHow can I use rsync to copy ONLY the my home folder (and nothing inside of it, just the folder name) to another machine. I've tried things like
Code:
rsync -av /path/to/src /path/to/dest/
or
Code:
rsync -av -f"+ */" -f"- *" /path/to/src /path/to/dest/
This last option recursively (through the -a switch) copies only folders, including all subfolders. If I try
Code:
rsync -v -f"+ */" -f"- *" /path/to/src /path/to/dest/
nothing is copied (not even my home folder.
