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moving multiple files --recursively using BSD
Post 82260 by moxxx68 on Tuesday 30th of August 2005 08:38:44 AM
08-30-2005
moving multiple files --recursively using BSD
i am using a FreeBSD remote account and I have directory that holds a number of
other directories most of which posses *.tgz *.tar.bz2 *.gz files... on a linux system
i would use a find format such as this to locate and mv *.tgz and *.tar.bz2 files
find ./dir -type f -iname "*.t[argz]*[bz2]" -print | xargs mv --target-directory=dir
on bsd this doesn't work since the mv options are slightly differenr than gnu linux..
i used "find ./dir -depth -print | cpio -ov > tree.cpio" and mv the file to a said dir and
extracted the filesystem but i could not find a way to extract just the files using find,
xargs or cpio on the BSD system... what I had to do was ftp the file to my linux system
do all operations and scp the whole directory of extracted files back to the account..
how would i go about extracting just the files using find and xargs or cpio on BSD
without having to go through the rigmarole of ftping back forth between my linux
system and the remote account...
thanx moxxx68
excuse the grievance: i have a small typo that would make difference to anyone looking at
my post;;
find ./dir -type f -iname "*.t[arg]*[bz]2" -depth -print0 | cpio --null -pvd ./target-dir
without the print0 expression you might get a slightly different result.. unfortunately on some
bsd systems i am pretty sure that it doesn't exist ... i could be wrong though..
other directories most of which posses *.tgz *.tar.bz2 *.gz files... on a linux system
i would use a find format such as this to locate and mv *.tgz and *.tar.bz2 files
find ./dir -type f -iname "*.t[argz]*[bz2]" -print | xargs mv --target-directory=dir
on bsd this doesn't work since the mv options are slightly differenr than gnu linux..
i used "find ./dir -depth -print | cpio -ov > tree.cpio" and mv the file to a said dir and
extracted the filesystem but i could not find a way to extract just the files using find,
xargs or cpio on the BSD system... what I had to do was ftp the file to my linux system
do all operations and scp the whole directory of extracted files back to the account..
how would i go about extracting just the files using find and xargs or cpio on BSD
without having to go through the rigmarole of ftping back forth between my linux
system and the remote account...
thanx moxxx68
excuse the grievance: i have a small typo that would make difference to anyone looking at
my post;;
find ./dir -type f -iname "*.t[arg]*[bz]2" -depth -print0 | cpio --null -pvd ./target-dir
without the print0 expression you might get a slightly different result.. unfortunately on some
bsd systems i am pretty sure that it doesn't exist ... i could be wrong though..
Last edited by moxxx68; 09-12-2005 at 09:16 AM.. Reason: typo ...
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