mv xrags and cp

[OOzy Pal]

On 1/16/07, John Dangler <jdangler at atlantic.net> wrote:
> On Tue, 2007-01-16 at 19:49 +0300, OOzy Pal wrote:
> > On 1/16/07, Marius Gedminas <marius at pov.lt> wrote:
> > > On Tue, Jan 16, 2007 at 12:16:53AM +0300, OOzy Pal wrote:
> > > > I am trying to search for all images in all direcotries under olddir
> > > > and cp them to one single direcotry called newdir bearing in mind that
> > > > there might be duplicate files
> > > >
> > > > home/t/1.jpg
> > > > home/g/1.jpg
> > >
> > > What do you want done with duplcate files?
> > >
> > > > I tried the following but no help
> > > >
> > > > find olddir -name *.jpg |xargs -t -I {} cp {} newdir/{}
> > > >
> > > > I get errors like
> > > >
> > > > cp test/ksi-1253.jpg newdir/test/ksi-1253.jpg
> > > > cp: cannot create regular file `newdir/test/ksi-1253.jpg': No such
> > > > file or directory
> > > >
> > > > note that there is nothing under newdir
> > >
> > > If you want the new files to end up in the same directory, do not
> > > mention {} in the cp's destination (and I also suggest you quote
> > > '*.jpg'):
> > >
> > >   find olddir -name '*.jpg' |xargs -t -I {} cp {} newdir/
> > >
> > > If you want to deal with unsafe characters in file names, better do
> > >
> > >   find olddir -name '*.jpg' -print0 |xargs -0 -t -I {} cp {} newdir/
> > >
> > > Actually, in this case you don't win much from using xargs, so you
> > > could just as well use find -exec:
> > >
> > >   find olddir -name '*.jpg' -exec cp {} newdir/ \;
> > >
> > > HTH,
> > > Marius Gedminas
> > > --
> > > How much net work could a network work, if a network could net work?
> > >
> > >
> > > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE-----
> > > Version: GnuPG v1.4.1 (GNU/Linux)
> > >
> > > iD8DBQFFq/M4kVdEXeem148RAiXAAJ9+TmT/JnLhqZXTmmwaAoJrNKbxDgCbB8+t
> > > aRoME4Og2sUPh+zism2V58Q=
> > > =XiTR
> > > -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----
> > >
> > >
> > > --
> > > ubuntu-users mailing list
> > > ubuntu-users at lists.ubuntu.com
> > > Modify settings or unsubscribe at: https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-users
> > >
> > >
> > >
> >
> > >What do you want done with duplcate files?
> > there not duplicate in content but they have the same name.
> >
> > This command is good
> >  find olddir -name '*.jpg' -exec cp {} newdir/ \;
> >
> > how can I make the above command rename the file in the format of
> >
> > date +%s%N.jpg
> >
> > to make sure that each file gets a unique name?
> >
> write a shell script around the command like...
> for word in `find olddir -name '*.jpg'
> do
> ... copy command
> done
> (depending on how you want to format the names, a simple `cp $word
> newdir/`date` would work, but if you want something like
> FILE_0101_1.jpg , you may have to employ awk to format the file names)
>
> > --
> > OOzy
> > Kubuntu-Edgy
> >
>
>
> --
> ubuntu-users mailing list
> ubuntu-users at lists.ubuntu.com
> Modify settings or unsubscribe at: https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-users
>

Hello

I tried the following and I got a Segmentation fault

#!/bin/bash

for i in $(find Original -name '*.jpg'); do
     Num=$((Num+1));
    cp -v $i z/$Num.jpg
done


-- 
OOzy
Kubuntu-Edgy