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Commands by paulochf

Terminal - Commands by paulochf - 4 results

for i in *ext; do mv $i ${i%.ext}; done

2011-11-13 03:58:08

User: paulochf

Functions: mv

Tags: bash rename bash tricks extension

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Renaming files removing some unwanted extension

For those files in current folder that would be shown in `ls *ext`, for some extension ext, move/rename that file removing the .ext suffix from the file name.

It uses Bash's parameter substitution, as seen in

http://tldp.org/LDP/abs/html/parameter-substitution.html#PCTPATREF

(for analog use in prefix, see http://tldp.org/LDP/abs/html/parameter-substitution.html#PSOREX2 )

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find . -iname "*.mp3" -type f -print0 | xargs -0 -I '{}' mv {} /new/path/to/mp3/{}

2011-07-18 05:28:32

User: paulochf

Functions: find mv xargs

Tags: files move folder subtree

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Move mp3 files to another path with existing subtree structure

Use case: folder with flac files with tree structure ../artist/album/number-title.flac

1) convert flac->mp3 in the same folder: http://www.commandlinefu.com/commands/view/6341/convert-all-.flac-from-a-folder-subtree-in-192kb-mp3

2) search for mp3 files and recreate tree structure to another path: http://www.commandlinefu.com/commands/view/8853/copy-selected-folder-found-recursively-under-src-retaining-the-structure

3) move all mp3 files to that new folder: this command

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find . -type d -exec mkdir /new/path/{} \;

2011-07-18 05:17:39

User: paulochf

Functions: find mkdir

Tags: tree copy folder structure

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copy selected folder found recursively under src retaining the structure

It's not better than the former, just another possible way.

Found at http://www.linuxquestions.org/questions/linux-newbie-8/copy-directory-structure-only-208796/

Credits to whansard

The command finds all .mp3 files in all subfolders from where it's ran, catches its "relative path" and creates inside /new/path/ with the same "relative path".

PS: /new/path/ must exists

Use case: folder with flac files with tree structure ../artist/album/number-title.flac

1) convert flac->mp3 in the same folder: http://www.commandlinefu.com/commands/view/6341/convert-all-.flac-from-a-folder-subtree-in-192kb-mp3

2) search for mp3 files and recreate tree structure to another path: this command

3) move all mp3 files to that new folder: http://www.commandlinefu.com/commands/view/8854/move-mp3-files-to-another-path-with-existing-subtree-structure

find . -type f -iname '*.flac' | while read FILE; do FILENAME="${FILE%.*}"; flac -cd "$FILE" | lame -b 192 - "${FILENAME}.mp3"; done

2010-08-15 19:02:19

User: paulochf

Functions: find read

Tags: audio find mp3 flac convert Linux UNIX recursive

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Convert all .flac from a folder subtree in 192Kb mp3

find . -type f -iname '*.flac' # searches from the current folder recursively for .flac audio files

| # the output (a .flac audio files with relative path from ./ ) is piped to

while read FILE; do FILENAME="${FILE%.*}"; flac -cd "$FILE" | lame -b 192 - "${FILENAME}.mp3"; done

# for each line on the list:

# FILE gets the file with .flac extension and relative path

# FILENAME gets FILE without the .flac extension

# run flac for that FILE with output piped to lame conversion to mp3 using 192Kb bitrate