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kalt · #1 (**permalink**) 10-25-2007, 04:23 PM

Hello all,

I need some help. I have to copy hundred of files from the following structure:

office/desk/file1.txt
office/desk/file2.txt
office/chair/file1.txt
office/chair/file2.txt
office/chair/file3.txt

to this structure:

office_desk1/file1.txt
office_desk2/file2.txt
office_chair1/file1.txt
office_chair2/file2.txt
office_chair3/file3.txt

I'm not good at writing shell script. The closes script that I found so far is this:

function copy_files() {
echo copying $1 files
tar -cf - `find . -name "*.$1" -print` | ( cd ../dest && tar xBf - )
}

I don't know how to create a folder from the folder it's in and the file number.

nixcraft · #2 (**permalink**) 10-25-2007, 08:25 PM

Try out following code. setup DEST for actual location where you wanna put files. You need to put script in root directory of office/desk. For example it it is /home/tom/office/desk, put script in /home/tom, alternatively you can modify LIST=(find ...) to specify path.

Code:

#!/bin/bash
LIST=$(find . -iname "*.txt")
DEST="/tmp/test"
[ ! -d $DEST ] && mkdir $DEST || :
echo "Starting copy ..."
for f in $LIST
do 
 bdirs=$(echo $f | cut -d'/' -f2)
 bdirm=$(echo $f | cut -d'/' -f3)
 bfile=$(echo $f | cut -d'/' -f4)
 [ ! -d ${DEST}/${bdirs}_${bdirm} ] && mkdir ${DEST}/${bdirs}_${bdirm} || :
 /bin/cp -f $f ${DEST}/${bdirs}_${bdirm}/${bfile}
done
echo "Done! All files copied to $DEST"

kalt · #3 (**permalink**) 10-26-2007, 01:47 AM

Thanks a lot. That was very much helped. I modified your code a bit to suit my need.

Code:

#!/bin/bash
SRC="./office"
DEST="./new_office"
LIST=$(find $SRC -type f -iname "file*.txt")
[ ! -d $DEST ] && mkdir $DEST || :
echo "Starting copy ..."
for f in $LIST
do
 bdirs=$(echo $f | cut -d'/' -f2)
 bdirm=$(echo $f | cut -d'/' -f3)
 bfile=$(echo $f | cut -d'/' -f4)
 bfilenum=$(echo $bfile | cut -c 5- | cut -d'.' -f1 | sed 's/[a-z]*$//')

 [ ! -d ${DEST}/${bdirs}_${bdirm}${bfilenum} ] && mkdir ${DEST}/${bdirs}_${bdirm}${bfilenum} || :
 echo -e "  $f \t--> ${DEST}/${bdirs}_${bdirm}${bfilenum}/${bfile}"
 /bin/cp -f $f ${DEST}/${bdirs}_${bdirm}${bfilenum}/${bfile}
done
echo "Done! All files copied from $SRC to $DEST"

The output:
Starting copy ...
./office/chair/file1.txt --> ./new_office/office_chair1/file1.txt
./office/chair/file3.txt --> ./new_office/office_chair3/file3.txt
./office/chair/file2.txt --> ./new_office/office_chair2/file2.txt
./office/desk/file1.txt --> ./new_office/office_desk1/file1.txt
./office/desk/file2.txt --> ./new_office/office_desk2/file2.txt
Done! All files copied from ./office to ./new_office

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