Because there is much variation in unix and Linux commands, please post:
Operating System and version.
What Shell you use.
The generic answer to this question is to use "find" piped to "cpio -p" with more local parameters. See "man find" AND "man cpio".
The normal method is to copy the tree to the target, verify the copy, then delete the source files.
The system I'm using is a Qnap nas so i'm not exactly sure of the exact os. I can also perform any command needed from an Ubuntu 10.10 server which has the folders mounted
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Originally Posted by ctsgnb
I am sure there may be some more elegant way to do it but something like this should do the job
Hi thanks for the help. When i try this in Ubuntu server 10.10:
i get a "mv: unable to rename no such file or directory" error for each file piped from find. Also after i run the above the directory i was working in has new empty folders for each word in any of the original directories titles. e.g if i had a folder
i end up with the following folders
Maybe this is because there is spaces in the directory names?
Hi all
Is it possible to copy a structure of a directory only.
e.g.
I have a file with the following entries that is a result of a find :-
/dir1/dir2/file.dbf
/dir1/dir2/dir3/file1.dbf
/dir1/file.dbf
I want to copy these to a directory and keep the structure however starting at a new dir... (8 Replies)
Hi,
I am trying to write a script that will move all the files from source directory structure(multiple levels might exist) to destination directory structure. If a sub folder is source doesnot exist in destination then I have to skip and goto next level. I also need to delete the files in... (4 Replies)
Hi,
Has anyone tried to restrict Solaris 10 unix find on a large directory structure based on time to stop running after finding the first occurrence of a matching query. Basically I'm trying to build up a usage map of user workspaces based on file modification (week/month/3 months/year etc) and... (3 Replies)
Hi
How to create a directory structure with getting input from a file.
I have file in that following lines are written.
./activemq-4.1.2/activemq-core-4.1.2.jar
./activemq-4.1.2/backport-util-concurrent-2.1.jar
./camel-1.4.0/apache-camel-1.4.0.jar
./camel-1.4.0/lib/activation-1.1.jar... (12 Replies)
I am adding some individual files to a tar archive and would like them to be added to the archive without any directory hierarchy, even though the files themselves exist in levels of hierarchy. Unfortunately, tar seems to always preserve the directory hierarchy when it adds the files.
Here is... (2 Replies)
What I'm attempting to do is create a script that will do a search for directories that meet the following criteria:
find . -name "config" -type d
this comes back with:
./dir1/anotherDir/test_dir/config
./dir1/anotherDir/test_dira/config
./dir2/test/test_dir/config
The results could... (4 Replies)
I'm using this now:
find /some/path/with/sourcefiles -type f -size -7M -exec /bin/cp -uv {} /some/path/ \;
but it doesn't preserve the directory structure, also I've tried it with
find /some/path/with/sourcefiles -type f -size -7M -exec /usr/bin/rsync -auv {} /some/path/ \;
but that doesn't... (9 Replies)
Can we create the master file that show the whole tree structure of the directory till a particular folder?
Database that contains four sub repository Sybase,sql,oracle,mysql and sql and oracle contains two subrepostories Siebel and plsql and each repositories contains three folders... (1 Reply)
Hello ; ) again
Now I have my file like this :
DIR2/DIR3
DIR2
DIR2/DIR3/DIR4/DIR5
I am looking for help to create a loop that will create the directory structure.
I need something like this :
If "DIR2" does not exist > Create
IF "DIR2" exist already > check if onther "DIR"... (5 Replies)
Hi All,
is there any work around to generate the file and directory structure like below at left side at Output? and exclude all file except .abc .txt
Current Directory structure
|-------------files
|---------------Share
|-----------------dir1
|-----------------dir2... (11 Replies)
Discussion started by: heros
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tree::simple::visitor::createdirectorytree
Tree::Simple::Visitor::CreateDirectoryTree(3pm) User Contributed Perl Documentation Tree::Simple::Visitor::CreateDirectoryTree(3pm)NAME
Tree::Simple::Visitor::CreateDirectoryTree - A Visitor for create a set of directories and files from a Tree::Simple object
SYNOPSIS
use Tree::Simple::Visitor::CreateDirectoryTree;
# create a Tree::Simple object which
# represents a directory heirarchy
my $tree = Tree::Simple->new("www/")
->addChildren(
Tree::Simple->new("conf/")
->addChildren(
Tree::Simple->new("startup.pl"),
Tree::Simple->new("httpd.conf")
),
Tree::Simple->new("cgi-bin/"),
Tree::Simple->new("ht_docs/"),
Tree::Simple->new("logs/")
->addChildren(
Tree::Simple->new("error.log"),
Tree::Simple->new("access.log")
),
);
# create an instance of our visitor
my $visitor = Tree::Simple::Visitor::CreateDirectoryTree->new();
# pass the visitor to a Tree::Simple object
$tree->accept($visitor);
# the www/ directory now mirrors the structure of the tree
DESCRIPTION
This visitor can be used to create a set of directories and files from a Tree::Simple object hierarchy.
METHODS
new There are no arguments to the constructor the object will be in its default state. You can use the "setNodeFilter", "setFileHandler"
and "setDirectoryHandler" methods to customize its behavior.
setNodeFilter ($filter_function)
This method accepts a CODE reference as its $filter_function argument and throws an exception if it is not a code reference. This code
reference is used to filter the tree nodes as they are used to create the directory tree, it can be basically used as a node pre-
processor. An example usage of this might be to enforce the 8.3 naming rules of DOS, or the 32 character limit of older macintoshes.
setFileHandler ($file_handler)
This method accepts a CODE reference as its $file_handler argument and throws an exception if it is not a CODE reference. This method
can be used to create custom file creation behavior. The default behavior is to just create the file and nothing else, but by using
this method it is possible to implement some other custom behavior, such as creating a file based on a template. The function is passed
the full path of the file to be created (as built by File::Spec).
setDirectoryHandler ($dir_handler)
This method accepts a CODE reference as its $dir_handler argument and throws an exception if it is not a CODE reference. This method
can be used to create custom directory creation behavior. The default behavior is to just create the directory and nothing else, but by
using this method it is possible to implement some other custom behavior, such as creating a directory on a remote server. The function
is passed the full path of the directory to be created (as built by File::Spec).
visit ($tree)
This is the method that is used by Tree::Simple's "accept" method. It can also be used on its own, it requires the $tree argument to be
a Tree::Simple object (or derived from a Tree::Simple object), and will throw and exception otherwise.
The tree is processed as follows:
Any node which is not a leaf is considered a directory.
Obviously since files themselves are leaf nodes, this makes sense that non-leaves will be directories.
Any node (including leaf nodes) which ends in either the character "/" or "" is considered a directory.
I think it is a pretty standard convention to have directory names ending in a separator. The separator itself is stripped off
before the directory name is passed to File::Spec where the platform specific directory path is created. This means that it does
not matter which one you use, it will be completely cross platform (at least as cross-platform as File::Spec is).
All other nodes are considered to be files.
BUGS
None that I am aware of. Of course, if you find a bug, let me know, and I will be sure to fix it.
CODE COVERAGE
See the CODE COVERAGE section in Tree::Simple::VisitorFactory for more inforamtion.
SEE ALSO
These Visitor classes are all subclasses of Tree::Simple::Visitor, which can be found in the Tree::Simple module, you should refer to that
module for more information.
AUTHOR
stevan little, <stevan@iinteractive.com>
COPYRIGHT AND LICENSE
Copyright 2004, 2005 by Infinity Interactive, Inc.
<http://www.iinteractive.com>
This library is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the same terms as Perl itself.
perl v5.10.1 2010-02-18 Tree::Simple::Visitor::CreateDirectoryTree(3pm)