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adamrosspayne

06-23-2006 12:47 AM

how to remove long-windows-filename files based on exlusion list

hi guys,

I want search recursively through a directory/subdirectories that contain files of a type i dont want. The unwanted files are listed in my exclusion file /home/knoppix/ex which looks like;

*.mp3
[.]mp3
*.avi
[.]avi
*.mp4
and so on...

If i enter ls -r | grep /home/knoppix/ex

it spits out matching file/s name in the form; Cool Band - Some Cool Song.zip

the rm command doesnt like this naming convention. I think it needs the full path.

How can i scipt an automatic removal files based on those in my exclusion file?

Thanks

gilead

06-23-2006 01:33 AM

You should be able to wrap the argument to rm in quotes so that it doesn't complain about the spaces. For example:

Code:

export MYFILE="some file.mp3"

rm $MYFILE  # Will fail because of the space.

rm "$MYFILE" # Will work (does on my version of bash anyway)

How is your script written? Can you use that syntax?

adamrosspayne

06-23-2006 02:19 AM

thanks for the help. i ended up using rsync;

rsync -arz source destination --exclude-from=exclusionfile --delete-excluded

I will learn your method too, thanks for the tip :-)

Bruce Hill

06-23-2006 02:25 AM

If you're interested in removing those spaces from Windoze filenames:

Code:

To remove the spaces in files in a directory ->

for i in *; do mv "$i" `echo $i | tr ' ' '_'`; done

or a bash script:

Code:

###To remove spaces from files

#!/bin/bash

IFS='

'

j=`find $1 -printf "%d\n" | sort -u | tail -n 1`

j=$((j-1))

echo "Max dir depth:" $j

for (( i=0; i<=j ; i++ ))

do

  for name in `find -mindepth $i -maxdepth $i -iname "* *" -printf "%p\n"`

  do

    newname=`echo "$name" | tr " " "_"`

    echo "$name" "$newname"

    mv "$name" "$newname"

  done

done

##########

Useful for cleaning up Windoze entropy.

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