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Operating Systems OS X (Apple) Puzzled by Find Post 302584336 by Denrael on Thursday 22nd of December 2011 09:20:53 PM

12-22-2011

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Puzzled by Find

I'm new to playing with the command line on OS X and am puzzled by the response I am getting from the find command. I have a file structure similar to the following

/Volumes/
../Drobo/
../../Pictures/
../../../Image 1/
../../../../Image 1.jpg
../../../../Previews/
../../../../../Image 1.jpg
../../../Image 2/
../../../../Image 2.jpg
../../../../Previews/
../../../../../Image 2.jpg

and so on for hundreds or in some cases thousands of directories at the image level. I am trying to pull all of the jpg files that are under the main group to the Pictures/ level without having them overwritten by any of the same name files from the Previews/ directories. To do this, I've set up the following two commands:

find "$PWD" -type d -iname "Previews" -exec rm -R {} \;
find "$PWD" -type f -iname "*.jpg" -exec mv {} . \;

which I execute from the Pictures/ directory level. It works, but a few things puzzle me.

1. This only works if I use the $PWD variable. If I use a . there, the rm command fails.

2. I have to use the -exec rm to succeed. If I try using the -delete flag on the first command, it fails.

3. Even though the Previews/ directories are being deleted, I receive the following error message on the terminal:

find: /Volumes/Drobo/Pictures/Image 1/Previews: No such file or directory

Anyway, I'm looking for any hints as to answers to my three areas of confusion above, and/or an easier way to accomplish the task. As I say, it's all working, so I'm just trying to understand what i'm seeing.

Thanks, this looks like a wonderful board.

Denrael

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Image::EXIF(3pm)                                        User Contributed Perl Documentation                                       Image::EXIF(3pm)

NAME

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SYNOPSIS

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perl v5.14.2                                                        2012-05-11                                                    Image::EXIF(3pm)