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# 8  
Old 04-03-2012
Quote:
Originally Posted by bartus11
What system are you using? Anyway, try this:
Code:
find /mnt/user/Pictures/ -type f -name "*.jpg" -exec dirname {} \; | sort | uniq | xargs -i touch "{}/.picture"

I'm still getting the same error. It seems to work, however it fails at a certain point. Is there any way to output what might be going on when it fails?
# 9  
Old 04-03-2012
Try:
Code:
find . -type f -name "*.jpg" -exec dirname {} \; | sort | uniq| sed "s/'/\\\'/g" | xargs -i touch {}/.picture

BTW, try fixing your directory names before processing, because Linux really doesn't like many of the special characters there (i.e. quotes, spaces etc).
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# 10  
Old 04-03-2012
linux is fine with them. xargs, on the other hand, is not.
# 11  
Old 04-03-2012
Quote:
Originally Posted by bartus11
Try:
Code:
find . -type f -name "*.jpg" -exec dirname {} \; | sort | uniq| sed "s/'/\\\'/g" | xargs -i touch {}/.picture

BTW, try fixing your directory names before processing, because Linux really doesn't like many of the special characters there (i.e. quotes, spaces etc).
This works perfectly. I know my directories are not named as well as they could be. I'll work on fixing that.


Quote:
Originally Posted by Corona688
I'd try looking for folders instead, so you don't have to extract what picture's in what folder. Seems easier to do vice-versa.

Code:
find /mnt/user/Pictures/ -type d | while read FOLDER
do
        if ls "$FOLDER" | grep "\.jpg$" > /dev/null
        then
                touch "$FOLDER"/.picture
        fi
done

I also got this script working. I had to change the grep "\.jpg$" command to simply grep .jpg, and it worked for me.


They both work very quickly. I love having 2 different good solutions to the same problem.

Thanks again for the extremely prompt help.
# 12  
Old 04-03-2012
You have a very odd version of grep then, which is possible on an embedded system I suppose! Smilie
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