Commands by bilbopingouin (2)

  • Rename many files in directories and subdirectories

    This is probably overkill, but I have some issues when the directories have spaces in their names. The find . -type d -print0 | while read -d $'\0' dir; do xxx; done loops over all the subdirectories in this place, ignoring the white spaces (to some extend). cd "$dir"; echo " process $dir"; cd -; goes to the directory and back. It also prints some info to check the progress. find . -maxdepth 1 -name "*.ogg.mp3" -exec rename 's/.ogg.mp3/.mp3/' {} \; renames the file within the current directory. The whole should work with directories and file names that include white spaces. Show Sample Output


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    find . -type d -print0 | while read -d $'\0' dir; do cd "$dir"; echo " process $dir"; find . -maxdepth 1 -name "*.ogg.mp3" -exec rename 's/.ogg.mp3/.mp3/' {} \; ; cd -; done
    bilbopingouin · 2014-08-25 11:28:43 0
  • Find pictures excepting a path

    If you need to find some pictures on your disk but excluding some path.


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    find . \( -not -path "./boost*" \) -type f \( -name "*.jpg" -or -name "*.png" -or -name "*.jpeg" \) 2>/dev/null
    bilbopingouin · 2014-02-13 09:11:11 0

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