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Find all files of a type and copy them elsewhere while keeping intact their full directory structure using find and cpio

.flac is the filetype. /Volumes/Music/FLAC is the destination. Show Sample Output
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```
#Any folders containing .flac files will be copied to the destination.

/Volumes/Music/FLAC/Music $ ls

Albert King The Best of Albert King(flac)/
Cloud Kicker/
St Germain/
Astor Piazzolla(flac)/
```
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find . -iname "*.flac" | cpio -pdm /Volumes/Music/FLAC

sammcj · 2011-08-02 08:25:21 71
Extract all of the files on an RPM on a non-RPM *nix
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rpm2cpio package.rpm |cpio -dimv

vlan7 · 2010-07-29 11:37:30 7
preserve disk; keep OS clean

if you use disk-based swap then it can defeat the purpose of this function.
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ram() { for i in /tmp /altroot;do mount -t tmpfs tmpfs $i;done&& for i in /var /root /etc $HOME; do find -d $i |cpio -pdmv /tmp&& mount -t tmpfs tmpfs $i&& mv -v /tmp$i/* $i&& rm -vrf /tmp$i ; done ;} usage: (in rc sequence) ram

argv · 2010-08-31 08:25:55 5
Clone current directory into /destination verbosely

Copy every file from current directory to destination preserving modification time.
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find . | cpio -pumdv /destination

nutria · 2009-04-28 22:08:30 8
1:1 copy of a volume

copies all files from the source disk / (skipping boundaries of mouted -in volumes) to /mnt/mydisk. Logical links are being preserved as well as devices, pipes etc. This can copy a MacOS X or Linux volume and keep it bootable. Note: its not suited to copy files with MacOS 9 style resources.
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find / -xdev -print | cpio -pdmuv /mnt/mydisk

afink · 2009-02-24 02:03:43 5
Extract the contents of an RPM package to your current directory without installing them.

This assumes you have the 'rpm', 'rpm2cpio' and 'cpio' packages installed. This will extract the contents of the RPM package to your current directory. This is useful for working with the files that the package provides without installing the package on your system. Might be useful to create a temporary directory to hold the packages before running the extraction: mkdir /tmp/new-package/; cd /tmp/new-package
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rpm2cpio /path/to/file.rpm | cpio -i -d

atoponce · 2009-03-10 21:02:14 8
Clone /

Clone linux installation.
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find . -path ./mnt -prune -o -path ./lost+found -prune -o -path ./sys -prune -o -path ./proc -prune -o -print | cpio -pumd /destination && mkdir /destination/mnt/ && mkdir /destination/proc && mkdir /destination/sys

nutria · 2009-04-28 22:14:45 7
Copy uncommitted changes from remote git repository

Copy changed files from remote git repository, _including binary ones_, staged and unstaged alike. Note that this command doesn't handle deleted files properly.
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ssh HOST '(cd REPO_DIR && git diff --name-only HEAD | cpio -o -Hnewc --quiet)' | cpio -iduv --quiet -Hnewc

ivan4th · 2014-02-01 18:40:31 8
copying data with cpio

Copy data to the destination using commands such as cpio (recommended), tar, rsync, ufsdump, or ufsrestore. Example: Let the source directory be /source, and let the destination directory be /destination. # cd /source # cd .. # find ./source -depth -print | cpio -cvo> /destination/source_data.cpio # cd /destination # cpio -icvmdI ./source_data.cpio # rm -rf ./source_data.cpio
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find ./source -depth -print | cpio -cvo> /destination/source_data.cpio; cd /destination; cpio -icvmdI ./source_data.cpio; rm -rf ./source_data.cpio

mnikhil · 2009-02-07 18:51:49 19
CPIO better than TAR

Archive all .sh files in a directory into a gzip archive.
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find . -type f -name '*.sh' -print | cpio -o | gzip >sh.cpio.gz

djangofan · 2011-12-21 21:13:29 11
Create a tar archive with cpio containing a set of files
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find path -name '*' -type f | cpio -ov -H ustar -F txtarchive.tar

bugmenot · 2012-07-29 00:44:12 5
SVN Export files that were modified between given revisions.

Get the list of changed files between revision 43 and HEAD revision: svn diff . -r43:HEAD --summarize Strip extra 8 characters from every line: cut -c9-99999 Copy the listed files to home/me/destination: cpio -pvdmu ~/destination Make a plain copy (-p), list files being copied (-v), create needed directories (-d), preserve modification time (-m), overwrite unconditionally (-u) Show Sample Output
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```
/home/me/destination/lib/model/ActivityTable.class.php
/home/me/destination/lib/model/ScheduleTable.class.php
/home/me/destination/lib/form/Activity.class.php
/home/me/destination/lib/form/Schedule.class.php
```
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svn diff . -r43:HEAD --summarize | cut -c9-99999 | cpio -pvdmu ~/destination

Sebasg · 2012-12-26 05:02:59 5
extract and initrd image

this command extracts an initrd files into the "tmp" directory
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mkdir tmp ; cd tmp ; zcat ../initrd.gz | cpio -i

akiuni · 2014-09-24 14:06:38 31
generate an initrd file

This commands compresses the "tmp" directory into an initrd file.
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cd tmp ; find . |cpio -o -H newc| gzip > ../initrd.gz

akiuni · 2014-09-24 14:07:54 8
Copy uncommitted changes to remote git repository

Copy changed files from the remote git repository, _including binary ones_, staged and unstaged alike. Note that this command doesn't handle deleted files properly. The reverse of the excellent command by Ivan.
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git diff --name-only HEAD | cpio -o -Hnewc --quiet | ssh HOST '(cd REPO_DIR && cpio -iduv --quiet -Hnewc)'

vinayakgadkari · 2018-10-28 18:04:00 641

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Open a manpage in the default (graphical) web browser

An easy alias for opening a manpage, nicely HTML formatted, in your set internet browser. If you get a "command exited with status 3" error you need to install groff.

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Dump audio from video without re-encoding.

This removes the video and subsequent file size and directly copies the audio.

Clean all .pyc files from current project. It cleans all the files recursively.

check for write/read permissions

su www-apache/ftp user and then check readable: find ~/ -type d $ -wholename '/dev/*' -o -wholename '/sys/*' -o -wholename '/proc/*' $ -prune -o -exec test -r {} \; -exec echo {} readable \; 2>/dev/null check writable: find ~/ -type d $ -wholename '/dev/*' -o -wholename '/sys/*' -o -wholename '/proc/*' $ -prune -o -exec test -w {} \; -exec echo {} writable \; 2>/dev/null

Which processes are listening on a specific port (e.g. port 80)

swap out "80" for your port of interest. Can use port number or named ports e.g. "http"

tar exclude files or directories

If you want to exclude only one file or directory you should use as --exclude=file_or_directory

Terrorist threat level text

Convert seconds to [DD:][HH:]MM:SS

Converts any number of seconds into days, hours, minutes and seconds. sec2dhms() { declare -i SS="$1" D=$(( SS / 86400 )) H=$(( SS % 86400 / 3600 )) M=$(( SS % 3600 / 60 )) S=$(( SS % 60 )) [ "$D" -gt 0 ] && echo -n "${D}:" [ "$H" -gt 0 ] && printf "%02g:" "$H" printf "%02g:%02g\n" "$M" "$S" }

Count items in JSON array

Pipe any JSON to jq, then count with the appropiate expression and use the | length on the array

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