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# 8  
Old 07-31-2014
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Originally Posted by saleheen
Here's an idea. What if I copy the whole project from windows to unix using recursive scp and use a for loop and wild card to match the directory name in both,as you suggested the stripping of part in unix can be done using pwd, rev and awk? Is that possible? I don't wanna go through the list :/ Is it possible to create a for loop that'll make identical tree for both of them in unix?
1) Your windows system doesn't know the UNIX folder names, scp can't tell it.

2) They're not identical. Not even close -- different names, different depths. If they were handmade they might not even be consistent. There might also be inconsistent case between Windows and UNIX since Windows wouldn't care.

3) How badly would a mistake hurt you, if it guessed wrong and copied the wrong files overtop of good ones?

I don't think you can do a good enough "fuzzy" match to really trust here. So, either make them identical, or build a big list of what Windows folders map to what UNIX folders.
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# 9  
Old 07-31-2014
If it guessed wrong and copied wrong files, I'm screwed to some to a good extent and the bad part is I wouldn't even know I'm done big time :/
Let me say one more time. In unix I have CH-species/CH3/,CH2/,CH1/, under each of these I may have 5 or 6 VAS directories,(of course there names will be differently numbered)under each of them I have OPT-0 inside which I want my .cell files
In windows I will create similarly CH-species/CH3/,CH2/,CH1/, and here's the problem. Since these folder are generated by material studio, after the VAS..part it includes CASTEP Energy like VAS-S005-001-Ru444 CASTEP Energy/ inside which I have .cell files and also other files which will be just deleted.
So, what if I use the file transfer window, copy the whole CH-scpecies from windows to unix, trip the unix part to VAS(store it inside a variable), do the same for the windows files and then try to match? Is it possible to trim the "CASTEP Energy" part from all the windows VAS..folders in unix?
Thanks a lot!!
# 10  
Old 08-01-2014
Hmmm. Based on that, my very first and very firm suggestion would be:

BACK UP THAT DATA!

The slightest mistake on our part could doom your project.
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# 11  
Old 08-01-2014
But how do I remove that CASTEP Energy part? I've checked, if I put both of them in same depth of directory, it's not impossible, but the CASTEP Energy part is bugging me cause since these are from windows it also includes \ instead of spaces between them. So when I tell my for loop to go inside */*/*/*/ in the last step it sees VAS-S001-002-Ru44R\ CASTEP\ Energy/ and it doesn't recognize what to do :/
# 12  
Old 08-01-2014
If I understand your problem correctly, and you're willing to use busybox and pscp...

On the Windows side, I made example data like:

Code:
C:\Documents and Settings\User>mkdir cp-test
C:\Documents and Settings\User>cd cp-test
C:\Documents and Settings\User\cp-test>mkdir "a CASTEP Energy"
C:\Documents and Settings\User\cp-test>echo a > "a CASTEP Energy"\a.cell
C:\Documents and Settings\User\cp-test>mkdir "b CASTEP Energy"
C:\Documents and Settings\User\cp-test>echo b > "b CASTEP Energy"\b.cell
C:\Documents and Settings\User\cp-test>mkdir "c CASTEP Energy"
C:\Documents and Settings\User\cp-test>echo c > "c CASTEP Energy"\c.cell
C:\Documents and Settings\User\cp-test>mkdir "d CASTEP Energy"
C:\Documents and Settings\User\cp-test>echo d > "d CASTEP Energy"\d.cell

On the UNIX side I made destination folders like:
mkdir -p cp-test/a/OPT-0 cp-test/b/OPT-0 cp-test/c/OPT-0 cp-test/d/OPT-0

Then I created this file as "cp-test.sh":

Code:
#!/bin/sh

WIN='C:/Documents and Settings/User/cp-test'
UNIX='/home/user/cp-test'
UNXUSER="tyler"
UNXHOST="unixhostnameorip"

find "$WIN" -type d -name '*CASTEP Energy' | while IFS="" read -r IPATH
do
	# Convert a/b/c/d into d
	BASE="${IPATH##*/}"
	# Convert 'xxx CASTEP Energy' into 'xxx'
	UNXNAME="${BASE/ CASTEP Energy/}"
	# If that couldn't be stripped, skip this folder
	if [ "$UNXNAME" = "$BASE" ]
	then
		echo "Couldn't strip CASTEP Energy from $BASE"
		continue
	fi
	
        # Remove the echo once you're sure it does what you want
	echo ./pscp.exe -batch -agent "$IPATH"/*.cell	\
		"$UNXUSER"@"$UNXHOST":"$UNIX/$UNXNAME/OPT-0"
done

...and ran it, with busybox and pscp in the same folder, like busybox sh cp-test.sh:

Code:
C:\Documents and Settings\User\cp-test>busybox sh cp-test.sh

./pscp.exe -batch -agent C:/Documents and Settings/User/cp-test/a CASTEP Energy/a.cell user@unixhostnameorip:/home/user/cp-test/a/OPT-0
./pscp.exe -batch -agent C:/Documents and Settings/User/cp-test/b CASTEP Energy/b.cell user@unixhostnameorip:/home/user/cp-test/b/OPT-0
./pscp.exe -batch -agent C:/Documents and Settings/User/cp-test/c CASTEP Energy/c.cell user@unixhostnameorip:/home/user/cp-test/c/OPT-0
./pscp.exe -batch -agent C:/Documents and Settings/User/cp-test/d CASTEP Energy/d.cell user@unixhostnameorip:/home/user/cp-test/d/OPT-0

C:\Documents and Settings\User\cp-test>

If I remove the echo, and have pageant running with an available key, it does this:

Code:
C:\Documents and Settings\User\cp-test>busybox sh cp-test.sh
a.cell                    | 0 kB |   0.0 kB/s | ETA: 00:00:00 | 100%
b.cell                    | 0 kB |   0.0 kB/s | ETA: 00:00:00 | 100%
c.cell                    | 0 kB |   0.0 kB/s | ETA: 00:00:00 | 100%
d.cell                    | 0 kB |   0.0 kB/s | ETA: 00:00:00 | 100%

C:\Documents and Settings\User\cp-test>

...and on the UNIX side, the files have appeared:

Code:
$ find cp-test -name '*.cell'

cp-test/c/OPT-0/c.cell
cp-test/d/OPT-0/d.cell
cp-test/a/OPT-0/a.cell
cp-test/b/OPT-0/b.cell

$

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# 13  
Old 08-01-2014
wow! awesome! let me understand and try this thing, I have never used busybox or pscp before though. Thanks a lot Corona688!! Smilie
# 14  
Old 08-06-2014
busybox is an entire UNIX "toolkit" in a single executable, bringing a shell and lots of standard commands. They use it in things like wireless routers where space is limited. Or when you want to write a shell script on Windows without installing 900mb of Cygwin things.
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