Run it in the directory containing image files:
Change the red part to the path that you want your files to be copied to.
bartus11 that worked a treat, thank you.
thanks to all the other guys who contributed too, unfortunately the otherscripts did not work. i think i may have made a mistake with the other scripts.
Hi All,
I am new to UNIX and shell scripts and also new to this forum.
I need a script to find all the files in a directory that contain any of the strings present in another file.
Please provide me the script or if you could provide pointers to any link in this forum it would be helpful.... (4 Replies)
Hi All,
I need to create a file which contains the list of all the files present in that directory.
e.g.,
ls /export/home/user/*.dat > list_file.dat
but what i am getting is:
$ ls /export/home/user/*.dat > list_file.dat
/export/home/user/*.dat: No such file or directory
But I have... (1 Reply)
Hi guys im currently trying to write a script which includes rename files and this is the part where i fail
i have a list of files eg
and i want to rename them so
any help really would be appreciated
Cheers dunryc (7 Replies)
I am having following folder structure.
/root/audios/pop
/root/audios/jazz
/root/audios/rock
Inside those pop, jazz, rock folders there are following files,
p1.ul, p2.ul, p3.ul, j1.ul, j2.ul, j3.ul, r1.ul, r2.ul, r3.ul
And I have a file named as "audio.txt" in the path /root/audios,... (11 Replies)
Hi All,
I want to copy all the contents of a list of files in a folder to a particular file. i am using following command:
cat dir/* >> newFile.txtIt's not working.
Could you please help?
Thanks,
Pranav (3 Replies)
Hi,
I am not that good in writing shell scripts. I need your help. I have a lot of files which need to moved to another directory but I can do it only if there are no files present there in the first place. I have an auto delete present to delete files from the destination Directory but still I... (5 Replies)
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shell-quote
SHELL-QUOTE(1) User Contributed Perl Documentation SHELL-QUOTE(1)NAME
shell-quote - quote arguments for safe use, unmodified in a shell command
SYNOPSIS
shell-quote [switch]... arg...
DESCRIPTION
shell-quote lets you pass arbitrary strings through the shell so that they won't be changed by the shell. This lets you process commands
or files with embedded white space or shell globbing characters safely. Here are a few examples.
EXAMPLES
ssh preserving args
When running a remote command with ssh, ssh doesn't preserve the separate arguments it receives. It just joins them with spaces and
passes them to "$SHELL -c". This doesn't work as intended:
ssh host touch 'hi there' # fails
It creates 2 files, hi and there. Instead, do this:
cmd=`shell-quote touch 'hi there'`
ssh host "$cmd"
This gives you just 1 file, hi there.
process find output
It's not ordinarily possible to process an arbitrary list of files output by find with a shell script. Anything you put in $IFS to
split up the output could legitimately be in a file's name. Here's how you can do it using shell-quote:
eval set -- `find -type f -print0 | xargs -0 shell-quote --`
debug shell scripts
shell-quote is better than echo for debugging shell scripts.
debug() {
[ -z "$debug" ] || shell-quote "debug:" "$@"
}
With echo you can't tell the difference between "debug 'foo bar'" and "debug foo bar", but with shell-quote you can.
save a command for later
shell-quote can be used to build up a shell command to run later. Say you want the user to be able to give you switches for a command
you're going to run. If you don't want the switches to be re-evaluated by the shell (which is usually a good idea, else there are
things the user can't pass through), you can do something like this:
user_switches=
while [ $# != 0 ]
do
case x$1 in
x--pass-through)
[ $# -gt 1 ] || die "need an argument for $1"
user_switches="$user_switches "`shell-quote -- "$2"`
shift;;
# process other switches
esac
shift
done
# later
eval "shell-quote some-command $user_switches my args"
OPTIONS --debug
Turn debugging on.
--help
Show the usage message and die.
--version
Show the version number and exit.
AVAILABILITY
The code is licensed under the GNU GPL. Check http://www.argon.org/~roderick/ or CPAN for updated versions.
AUTHOR
Roderick Schertler <roderick@argon.org>
perl v5.16.3 2010-06-11 SHELL-QUOTE(1)