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Operating Systems OS X (Apple) Batch file to move video files and retain sub-directories Post 302522817 by DGPickett on Monday 16th of May 2011 04:55:40 PM
Old 05-16-2011
A shell script can do this for you. It needs to find all the avi files in Pictures, find all the target date dirs supporting those files, make any missing Movies dirs, and move the files.
Code:
#!/bin/ksh
 
cd Pictures
 
for f in */*.avi
do
 if [ "$f" = "*/*.avi"
 then
  break
 fi
 
 if [ ! -d ../Movies/"${f%/*}" ]
 then
  mkdir ../Movies/"${f%/*}"
 fi
 
 mv "$f" ../Movies/"$f"
done

You must tune this up for the actual absolute path of ?\Pictures\. I am assuming the slashes reverse in the shell world, not being a MAC guy.
 

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LEARN ABOUT DEBIAN

qmove

qmove(1B)								PBS								 qmove(1B)

NAME

       qmove - move pbs batch job

SYNOPSIS

       qmove destination job_identifier ...

DESCRIPTION

       To move a job is to remove the job from the queue in which it resides and instantiate the job in another queue.	The qmove command issues a
       Move Job batch request to the batch server that currently owns each job specified by job_identifier.

       A job in the Running , Transiting , or Exiting state cannot be moved.

OPERANDS

       The first operand is the new destinationfor
	   queue
	   @server
	   queue@server
       See the PBS ERS section , "Destination Identifiers".

       If the destination operand describes only a queue, then qmove will move jobs into the queue of the specified  name  at  the  job's  current
       server.

       If the destination operand describes only a batch server, then qmove will move jobs into the default queue at that batch server.

       If  the destination operand describes both a queue and a batch server, then qmove will move the jobs into the specified queue at the speci-
       fied server.

       All following operands are job_identifiers which specify the jobs to be moved to the new destination.  The qmove  command  accepts  one	or
       more job_identifier operands of the form:
	   sequence_number[.server_name][@server]

STANDARD ERROR

       The qmove command will write a diagnostic messages to standard error for each error occurrence.

EXIT STATUS

       Upon successful processing of all the operands presented to the qmove command, the exit status will be a value of zero.

       If the qmove command fails to process any operand, the command exits with a value greater than zero.

SEE ALSO

       qsub(1B), pbs_movejob(3B)

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