Find missing files but with same file name
Ralf Mardorf
silver.bullet at zoho.com
Sun May 22 06:28:03 UTC 2016
On Sun, 22 May 2016 08:16:40 +0200, Ralf Mardorf wrote:
>You could format the output of the file, e.g.
>
>$ cat ~/Desktop/findsn.txt
>-rw-r--r-- 1 rocketmouse rocketmouse 0 May 22 08:10 pics_1/faked.jpg
>-rw-r--r-- 1 rocketmouse rocketmouse 0 May 22 08:10 pics_2/faked.jpg
>
>$ cut -d" " -f9 ~/Desktop/findsn.txt
>pics_1/faked.jpg
>pics_2/faked.jpg
>
>$ cut -d" " -f9 ~/Desktop/findsn.txt >> formatted_findsn.txt
>
>$ cat formatted_findsn.txt
>pics_1/faked.jpg
>pics_2/faked.jpg
More easy to do things with shell scripts:
$ head -n1 formatted_findsn.txt
pics_1/faked.jpg
$ tail -n1 formatted_findsn.txt
pics_2/faked.jpg
$ basename $(head -n1 formatted_findsn.txt)
faked.jpg
$ dirname $(cat formatted_findsn.txt)
pics_1
pics_2
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