Using Bash
So let's say I have a bunch of files randomly placed in a parent directory ~/src
, I want to grab all the files matching a certain suffix and move (or copy) them to a ~/dist
directory.
Let's assume for this purpose that all filenames have this naming convention:
<filename_prefix>.<filename_suffix>
I found out that this was a quick way to get all files with a particular filename_suffix
and put them in a dist folder:
mkdir ~/dst
find source -name "*.xxx" -exec mv -i {} -t ~/dst \;
Now a step further… how can I use the output of find, in this case filename
, and use the filename_prefix
to generate a directory of the same name in ~/dist
and then move (or copy) all the files with that prefix into the appropriate directory?
mkdir ~/dst
find source -name "*.xrt,*.ini,*.moo" -exec mv -i {} -t ~/dst \;
Essentially, how do I change the above command (or maybe use another command), to create a structure like this
(OUTPUT)
~/dist/people/people.xrt
~/dist/games/games.xrt
~/dist/games/games.moo
~/dist/games/games.ini
~/dist/monkeys/monkeys.ini
~/dist/monkeys/monkeys.xrt
from a directory tree like this?
(INPUT)
~/src/xrt/people.xrt
~/src/xrt/games.xrt
~/src/conf/games.ini
~/src/pack/monkeys.xrt
~/src/e344/games.moo
~/src/e344/monkeys.moo
~/src/en-us/monkeys.ini
Best Answer
It would be a hell to tell
find
what to do in this case.Better use the shell:
Use
shopt -s globstar
to make the**
glob work (or use zsh!). And remove theecho
s later if the command prints what you want.