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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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urio

URIO(4) 						   BSD Kernel Interfaces Manual 						   URIO(4)

NAME

     urio -- USB driver for the Rio MP3 players

SYNOPSIS

     To compile this driver into the kernel, place the following line in your kernel configuration file:

	   device urio

     Alternatively, to load the driver as a module at boot time, place the following line in loader.conf(5):

	   urio_load="YES"

DESCRIPTION

     The urio driver provides support for Rio MP3 players from Diamond MultiMedia which attaches to the USB port.  The urio device must be config-
     ured in the kernel, along with usb and one of the uhci or ohci controllers.

     Subsequently, the /dev/urio0 device can be used by the Rio userland applications.

HARDWARE

     The following devices are supported by the urio driver:

     o	 Diamond MultiMedia Rio 500
     o	 Diamond MultiMedia Rio 600
     o	 Diamond MultiMedia Rio 800

FILES

     /dev/urio0
		blocking device node

EXAMPLES

     The following line in the kernel configuration file adds the urio driver to the kernel:
	   device urio

     To download a song over the USB connection into the Rio using the rio_add_song(1) utility (see the SEE ALSO section):
	   rio_add_song /usr/local/MP3/TracyChapman/02-Fast-Car.mp3

SEE ALSO

     ohci(4), uhci(4), usb(4)

     The Rio 500 SourceForge Project Web Page, http://rio500.sourceforge.net/.

     The Rio500 tools from SourceForge are the actual userland tools used to download, format or rename songs on players.  When compiling these
     tools, the following pre-build configuration command will ensure that rio_usb.h is available in the include path and that the device used is
     /dev/urio0:

	   CFLAGS="-I/usr/include/dev/usb" ./configure 
	       --with-devicepath='/dev' --with-deviceentry='urio0'

AUTHORS

     The urio driver was written by Iwasa Kazmi <kzmi@ca2.so-net.ne.jp> for FreeBSD.

     This manual page was written by Dirk-Willem van Gulik <dirkx@webweaving.org>.

BSD
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