Good evening fellow computational authors,
I'm trying to run the following script:
find . -name '*.php' -exec /search_replace.sh {} \;
so that it runs search_replace.sh on all the .php files in a folder and its sub-folders. I keep on getting the error:
find: /search_replace.sh: No such file or directory
Any assistance?
change
/search_replace
to
./search_replace
or whatever the full path to the script is...
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We know how to combine find and tar cvf.
How to combine each file using -exec on find with a command like jar -xvf?
The use case is, I need to find specific jar files (e.g. -type f foo*.jar) in a folder and then extract specific entries from each jar file that find finds: jar -xvf <file> META-INF/services
The general case seems to be that the user wants to exec a command cmd for each file that is found when cmd takes argument(s) after the file.
find -exec lets you substitute a file name anywhere in the command. As in the linked question, you can do this with by moving {} to the desired location.
find /path -name '*.jar' -exec jar -xvf {} META-INF/services \;
Figured maybe someone here might know whats going on, but essentially what I have to do is take a directory, and make a tar file omitting a subdir two levels down (root/1/2). Given it needs to work on a bunch of platforms, the easiest way I thought was to do a find and egrep that directory out, which works well giving me the list of files.
But then I pipe that file list into a xargs tar rvf command and the resulting file comes out something like 33gb. I've tried to output the find to a file, and use tar -T with that file as input, its still comes out to about 33gb, when if I did a straight tar of the whole directory (not omitting anything) it comes in where I'd expect it at 6-ish gb.
Any thoughts on what is going on? Or how to remedy this? I really need to get this figured out, I'm guessing it has to do with feeding it a list of files vs. having it just tar a directory, but not sure how to fix that.
Your find command will return directories as well as files
Consider using find to look for directories and to exclude some
tar cvf /path/to/archive.tar $(find suite -type d ! -name 'suite/tmp/Shared/*')
When you specify a directory in the file list, tar packages the directory and all the files in it. If you then list the files in the directory separately, it packages the files (again). If you list the sub-directories, it packages the contents of each subdirectory again. And so on.
If you're going to do a files list, make sure it truly is a list of files and that no directories are included.
find . -type f ...
The ellipsis might be find options to eliminate the files in the sub-directory, or it might be a grep -v that eliminates them. Note that -name normally only matches the last component of the name. GNU find has ! -path '*/subdir/*' or variants that will allow you to eliminate the file based on path, rather than just name:
find . -type f ! -path './root/1/2/*' -print
I have a directory containing folders and subfolders. These subfolders contain, for example, .xml files.
I'd like to copy all of the .xml files into a separate folder. My UNIX is rusty; any and all help would be greatly appreciated. Thanks, Adam
Do you mean copy all .xml files from all subfolders without having to specify the subfolder names?
find . -name \*.xml -exec /bin/cp {} /dest/dir/ \;
Try this command (with the needed changes of course), e.g.,:
cp source_dir/project1/*.xml dest_dir/new_project2/summer2012
Note that you don't have to specify the filenames at the destination when they stay the same.
For more information see the cp man page
find -iname '*.xml' -exec mv \{\} /dest/directory \;
I've been stuck on a little unix command line problem.
I have a website folder (4gb) I need to grab a copy of, but just the .php, .html, .js and .css files (which is only a couple hundred kb).
I'm thinking ideally, there is a way to zip or tar a whole folder but only grabbing certain file extensions, while retaining subfolder structures. Is this possible and if so, how?
I did try doing a whole zip, then going through and excluding certain files but it seemed a bit excessive.
I'm kinda new to unix.
Any ideas would be greatly appreciated.
Switch into the website folder, then run
zip -R foo '*.php' '*.html' '*.js' '*.css'
You can also run this from outside the website folder:
zip -r foo website_folder -i '*.php' '*.html' '*.js' '*.css'
You can use find and grep to generate the file list, then pipe that into zip
e.g.
find . | egrep "\.(html|css|js|php)$" | zip -# test.zip
(-# tells zip to read a file list from stdin)
This is how I managed to do it, but I also like ghostdog74's version.
tar -czvf archive.tgz `find test/ | egrep ".*\.html|.*\.php"`
You can add extra extensions by adding them to the regex.
I liked Nick's answer, but, since this is a programming site, why not use Ant to do this. :)
Then you can put in a parameter so that different types of files can be zipped up.
http://ant.apache.org/manual/Tasks/zip.html
you may want to use find(GNU) to find all your php,html etc files.then tar them up
find /path -type f \( -iname "*.php" -o -iname "*.css" -o -iname "*.js" -o -iname "*.ext" \) -exec tar -r --file=test.tar "{}" +;
after that you can zip it up
You could write a shell script to copy files based on a pattern/expression into a new folder, zip the contents and then delete the folder. Now, as for the actual syntax of it, ill leave that to you :D.
I have extended regexes enabled in my Bash by
shopt -s extglob
They may be useful in solving the problem.
I run the following unsuccessfully, since it moves also directories
$ mv `find . -maxdepth 1` django-tes/
I am trying to find all files except directories and move them to a directory called django-tes/.
How can you move all files except directories in a folder to a folder in terminal?
Try using find . -type f -maxdepth 1