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jackoo
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Hi all,
I don't get it working, following is my problem:
I have a LOT of directories with 631000 files (.JPG) in it. Quite some directories have SUB-directories called "Foto's".
What I like to do is FIND all those SUB-directories out of the bunch directories, copy all the files out of that "Foto's" directory to 1 level higher and remove the just empty "Foto's" directory.
Following works:
find / -name ./mnt/www/ -name Foto\'s
I get a list of all the Directories I like to get rid of...but first the files in these directories I have to copy a level higher. Who can help me out please??
Greetz,
Jackoo
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while read -r directories ; do { mv "${directories}"/* "${directories}"/.. || { echo "Could not move files from ${directories}"; exit 1;} rmdir "${directories}" || {echo "Could not remove directory ${directories}"; exit 1;} } done < <(find / -name "Foto\'s" -type d ! -emtpy)
That should work
Regards
NOTE: I did that out of my head, not 100% secure ( there are things it doesn't check)0 -
Cool thanx! Needed this, will try it tonight and let you know :-)0
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All files out of 1005 random directories (called "Foto's") are moved to its upper directory and all 1005 empty dir. "Foto's" are removed by following command:
find ./ -name "Foto\'s" | ./script.b
Down here the content of the file script.b (thanks to MARC! :-)
while read -r directories ; do {
mv "${directories}"/* "${directories}"/.. || { echo "Could not move files from ${directories}"; exit 1;}
rmdir "${directories}" || {echo "Could not remove directory ${directories}"; exit 1;}
} done
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Glad it worked!0
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