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Top Forums Shell Programming and Scripting Loop folders, delete files, copy new ones Post 302488719 by acraig on Tuesday 18th of January 2011 09:09:40 AM
Old 01-18-2011
[Solved] Loop folders, delete files, copy new ones
Folks,

I am hopeful that you may be able to help me out with writing a script that can be run nightly (as cron?) to loop through all subfolders within the "/media" directory, delete all of the files in each of them, and then copy in all of the files from the "/home/[user]/sansa" directory to each of the "/media" subfolders.

I have configured a Linux system as a charging station for about 50 Sansa Clip MP3 players with USB connectivity, which are being used for visitors to a museum attraction. Sometimes, visitors delete files from the players, or use the Sansa's recording feature to record sound files that other visitors need not access. The goal is to wipe the contents of the devices on a nightly basis, and retrieve them the next morning with freshly-written data.

Thanks for any assistance,
- Adam
Last edited by acraig; 01-18-2011 at 12:10 PM..
 

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LEARN ABOUT DEBIAN

scolasync

SCOLASYNC(1)						       scolasync User Manual						      SCOLASYNC(1)

NAME

       scolasync - a file manager dedicated to dealing with a collection of removable media, like music mobile players. It makes easier to copy
       files to a set of removable media, and to copy files from them.

SYNOPSIS

       scolasync [{-c | --check}]

DESCRIPTION

       scolasync allows you to send a series of files towards a set of removable media. Every individual removable storage device is identified,
       for example to its owner. Then, later, you can retreive modified files from the same collection of removable media and track the
       modifications attributable to each owner.

       A possible usage is with students learning a foreign language: they are given homework on their USB sticks, and they bring them back with
       modified contents to get scores.

OPTIONS

       -c , --check
	   Enables checkboxes to select a subset of the usb storage media currently plugged to your computer, even if the checkboxes are not
	   wanted in the preferences of the application.

FILES

       ${HOME}/.scolasync/db
	   A database containing the preferences of the application, and the mapping between owners and USB storage media.

       /usr/share/scolasync/marques.py
	   A dictionary of pecularities which come with some brands of USB storage media.

       ${HOME}/.scolasync/marques.py
	   This dictionary overrides the settings in the system-wide configuration.

       ${HOME}/.scolasync/scolasync.log
	   A log file for the application.

AUTHOR

       Georges Khaznadar <georgesk@ofset.org>
	   Wrote this manpage for the Debian system.

COPYRIGHT

       Copyright (C) 2010 Georges Khaznadar

       This manual page was written for the Debian system (and may be used by others).

       Permission is granted to copy, distribute and/or modify this document under the terms of the GNU General Public License, Version 2 or (at
       your option) any later version published by the Free Software Foundation.

       On Debian systems, the complete text of the GNU General Public License can be found in /usr/share/common-licenses/GPL.

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