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Top Forums Shell Programming and Scripting how to synchronize different dirs Post 302099163 by reldb on Saturday 9th of December 2006 03:56:30 PM
Old 12-09-2006
how to synchronize different dirs

I have 4 directory

Dir1
file1 file2 file3 file4
Dir2
file3 file5 file6 file8
Dir3
file1 file2 file6 file9 file10
Dir4
file3 file6 file12 file15

and all the 4 dirs are having couple of files.
Few of the files are common to other directory/ies and few of them are brand new.

I need a finaloutput as
dir1 having all the files from all other 3 directory but not having its original files same for other dirs. And i need to change the file name in dir1. Actually all the files are having a ext as .text so i need to remove the .text from all the files.

eg
dir1 file5 file6 file8 file9 file10 file12 file15
dir2 file1 file2 file4 file9 file10 file12 file15


I am doing like this

newdir1 - copying all the files from dir2 dir3 and dir4
then delete the files from newdir1 which are there in dir1
so this way newdir1 is my final result.
Doing the same for other directory

>mkdir newdir1
> cp dir2/* ./newdir1
> cp dir3/* ./newdir1
> cp dir4/* ./newdir1

ls dir1 | while read file; do
rm ./newdir1/${file}
done
cd newdir1

ls | while read file; do
mv ${file} `echo ${file} | sed 's/\.txt//'`
done



Is there any other best and fast way to do? Actually i need some way which can be much more efficient than this instead of using 2 while loops as i have more than 5000 files in each folder and most of them are common across each folder only 20 are new files.

can i do this through file manipulation means instead of working on actual file if i make a file with all the filename and then doing some commands on names instead of actual file and then finally copying the actual file

Last edited by reldb; 12-09-2006 at 05:13 PM..
 

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merge(1)																  merge(1)

NAME
merge - three-way file merge SYNOPSIS
merge [-Llabel1 [-Llabel3]] [-p] [-q] file1 file2 file3 DESCRIPTION
merge incorporates all changes that lead from file2 to file3 into file1. The result goes to standard output if -p is present, into file1 otherwise. merge is useful for combining separate changes to an original. Suppose file2 is the original, and both file1 and file3 are modifications of file2. Then merge combines both changes. An overlap occurs if both file1 and file3 have changes in a common segment of lines. On a few older hosts where diff3 does not support the -E option, merge does not detect overlaps, and merely supplies the changed lines from file3. On most hosts, if overlaps occur, merge out- puts a message (unless the -q option is given), and includes both alternatives in the result. The alternatives are delimited as follows: <<<<<<< file1 lines in file1 ======= lines in file3 >>>>>>> file3 If there are overlaps, the user should edit the result and delete one of the alternatives. If the -L label1 and -L label3 options are given, the labels are output in place of the names file1 and file3 in overlap reports. DIAGNOSTICS
Exit status is 0 for no overlaps, 1 for some overlaps, 2 for trouble. IDENTIFICATION
Author: Walter F. Tichy. Revision Number: 1.1.6.2; Release Date: 1993/10/07. Copyright (C) 1982, 1988, 1989 by Walter F. Tichy. Copyright (C) 1990, 1991 by Paul Eggert. SEE ALSO
diff3(1), diff(1), rcsmerge(1), co(1) merge(1)
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