take it take Posted November 2, 2006 Share Posted November 2, 2006 I'd like to copy files with a specific filename format. Here's an example: picture1.jpg picture1.highlight.jpg picture1.thumb.jpg picture.sized.jpg picture2.jpg picture2.highlight.jpg picture2.thumb.jpg picture2.sized.jpg I only want the ones WITHOUT the "highlight", "thumb", and "sized", therefore, I only want picture1.jpg and picture2.jpg. If I issue a: cp *.jpg ../temp ALL the files ending with .jpg will be copied and I eventually have to delete the rest manually by: rm *.highlight.jpg rm *.sized.jpg rm *.thumb.jpg in the temp directory. Is there a nifty way to only grab the ones I want? BTW, that was a small example. I have to grab about 200-300 images in each directory x 50 directories. :?: Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
boristsr Posted November 2, 2006 Share Posted November 2, 2006 well, one way would be to use 3 commands per directory (this is presuming that the numbers are not of uniform length) cp picture?.jpg <insert your destination folder here> cp picture??.jpg <insert your destination folder here> cp picture???.jpg <insert your destination folder here> ? is a wild character similar to * except that it means that it can be replaced by any single character, not multiple characters. ofcourse, this task is made much easier if the numbers are of uniform length (eg, 3 characters such as 001) this could also be chucked in a script to automate each directory. my linux command line skills aren't the best though, so maybe there is a way to have multiple source files in the one command. **edit** just did some exploring, this should work for you cp picture?.jpg picture??.jpg picture???.jpg <insert your destination folder here> Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sparda Posted November 2, 2006 Share Posted November 2, 2006 In this example cp [12].jpg would only copy picture1.jpg and picture2.jpg... is that what you want? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
take it take Posted November 2, 2006 Author Share Posted November 2, 2006 Okay, my first example wasn't a good one. Yes, there are picture1.jpg, picture2.jpg, but there's also concert2.jpg, people29.jpg and city127.jpg and so on in the same directory. Doing a cp picture?.jpg ../temp would work partially. I apologize for not giving a good example. :( @Sparda: I tried cp [12].jpg ../temp and I got this: cp: cannot stat `[12].jpg': No such file or directory Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
boristsr Posted November 2, 2006 Share Posted November 2, 2006 hmm, that does make it a bit harder, i'll take a look round, see what i can find. i beleive what you're going to need though is a file copier which uses regular expressions, which i don't think cp supports. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sparda Posted November 2, 2006 Share Posted November 2, 2006 @Sparda: I tried cp [12].jpg ../temp and I got this: cp: cannot stat `[12].jpg': No such file or directory need the *, sorry ;) Corrected command: cp *[12].jpg If all the files you want to copy have a number befor .jpg, then you should beable to use: cp *[1234567890].jpg with no problems. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
boristsr Posted November 2, 2006 Share Posted November 2, 2006 sparda is right apparently cp does support regular expressions. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
take it take Posted November 2, 2006 Author Share Posted November 2, 2006 @Sparda: Not much luck with cp *[12].jpg and other variants of it. Only 1 file got copied. Here's the actual list of files. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
boristsr Posted November 2, 2006 Share Posted November 2, 2006 using cp *[1234567890a].jpg should get you all the files you want out of that list. it's a pattern matching command, it's basically asking for any file that ends in .jpg, as well as the character before that being in the approved list (enclosed in the square brackets) as long as none of your other files end in d or b, you should be fine making it something like cp *[1234567890acefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyz].jpg <your destination directory> Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sparda Posted November 2, 2006 Share Posted November 2, 2006 cp *[^em][^db].jpg also works just as well, gota watch out for false posatives though... in both cases. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
boristsr Posted November 2, 2006 Share Posted November 2, 2006 ahh, so thats the not operator. ty sparda, i shall remember this ;) i've been meaning to learn RegExp's for a while now. *edit* btw, is it just more or does it look like he is cleaning out a directory where he just dumped a crawl of a porn site? :P Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sparda Posted November 2, 2006 Share Posted November 2, 2006 more filez.txt | grep [^em][^db].jpg 101349oct306Alina.jpg 111349oct306Alina.jpg 11349oct306Alina.jpg 121349oct306Alina.jpg 131349oct306Alina.jpg 1349GroupShot10306.jpg 141349oct306Alina.jpg 151349oct306Alina.jpg 161349oct306Alina.jpg 171349oct306Alina.jpg 181349oct306Alina.jpg 191349oct306Alina.jpg 1Me1349Oct306.jpg 201349oct306Alina.jpg 211349oct306Alina.jpg 21349oct306Alina.jpg 221349oct306Alina.jpg 231349oct306Alina.jpg 241349oct306Alina.jpg 251349oct306Alina.jpg 261349oct306Alina.jpg 271349oct306Alina.jpg 281349oct306Alina.jpg 291349oct306Alina.jpg 2Me1349Oct306.jpg 301349oct306Alina.jpg 311349oct306Alina.jpg 31349oct306Alina.jpg 31CelticFrost10306Alina.jpg 321349oct306Alina.jpg 32CelticFrost10306Alina.jpg 331349oct306Alina.highlight.jpg 331349oct306Alina.jpg 33CelticFrost10306Alina.jpg 341349oct306Alina.jpg 34CelticFrost10306Alina.jpg 351349oct306Alina.jpg 35CelticFrost10306Alina.jpg 361349oct306Alina.jpg 36CelticFrost10306Alina.jpg 371349oct306Alina.jpg 37CelticFrost10306Alina.jpg 381349oct306Alina.jpg 38CelticFrost10306Alina.jpg 391349oct306Alina.jpg 39CelticFrost10306Alina.jpg 3Me1349Oct306.jpg 401349oct306Alina.jpg 40CelticFrost10306Alina.jpg 411349oct306Alina_001.jpg 411349oct306Alina.jpg 41349oct306Alina.jpg 41CelticFrost10306Alina.jpg 421349oct306Alina.jpg 42CelticFrost10306Alina.jpg 431349oct306Alina.jpg 43CelticFrost10306Alina.jpg 441349oct306Alina.jpg 44CelticFrost10306Alina.jpg 451349oct306Alina.jpg 45CelticFrost10306Alina.jpg 461349oct306Alina.jpg 46CelticFrost10306Alina.jpg 471349oct306Alina.jpg 47CelticFrost10306Alina.jpg 481349oct306Alina.jpg 48CelticFrost10306Alina.jpg 491349oct306Alina.jpg 501349oct306Alina.jpg 511349oct306Alina.jpg 51349oct306Alina.jpg 521349oct306Alina.jpg 531349oct306Alina.jpg 541349oct306Alina.jpg 551349oct306Alina.jpg 561349oct306Alina.jpg 571349oct306Alina.jpg 581349oct306Alina.jpg 591349oct306Alina.jpg 601349oct306Alina.jpg 611349oct306Alina.jpg 61349oct306Alina.jpg 621349oct306Alina.jpg 631349oct306Alina.jpg 641349oct306Alina.jpg 651349oct306Alina.jpg 661349oct306Alina.jpg 671349oct306Alina.jpg 681349oct306Alina.jpg 71349oct306Alina.jpg 81349oct306Alina.jpg 91349oct306Alina.jpg CandyKingMeGd103006.jpg CandyMe1349gig10306.jpg CandyMeSahgGd10306.jpg From what I can tell, there is only one false positive an no false negatives, but I haven't looked at it that carefully ;) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
take it take Posted November 2, 2006 Author Share Posted November 2, 2006 boristsr's cp *[1234567890acefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyz].jpg <your destination directory> works! Thanks! And thanks to everyone that helped me out. I could see why the file listing sounds like it's some kind of pr0n file. :D I'm actually backing up some files on a photography site for a friend. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cooper Posted November 2, 2006 Share Posted November 2, 2006 Well, here's some ideas: cp * <destination> && rm <destination>/*{highlight,thumb,sized}.jpg for file in `ls | grep "[^(sized|thumb|highlight)].jpg"`; do cp $file <destination> ; done But the winner should be: find . -name "*[^(sized|thumb|highlight)].jpg" -exec cp {} <destination> ; Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RompeRatones Posted November 3, 2006 Share Posted November 3, 2006 brainstorming ls -Q *.jpg | grep -v -e highlight -e thumb -e sized | xargs cp destinationdir/ update: it didnt worked... i got this to work nontheless for pics in `ls *.jpg | grep -v -e highlight -e thumb -e sized `; do cp $pics destinationdir/ ; done update2: oops i just saw a very similar command just above... here's one with sed for pics in `ls | sed 's/thumb|highlight|sized/DONTCOPY/g' | grep -v DONTCOPY `; do cp $pics destdir/ ; done Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cooper Posted November 3, 2006 Share Posted November 3, 2006 Try adding some images to the set that contain spaces in their filename... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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