Shell Script to search and copy jpg to Another Folder.

ajayan · 06-03-2009, 01:37 AM

Dear All,
My manager asked me to find out all the jpg files in a directory and copy to another destination directory.I tried to write a shell script.But the problem is this source directory contains thousands of subdirectories.The jpg files resides in all of these directories.We have to search inside all these sub directories.I am reallyconfused.Can Any one help me.I am only a beginner to Shell scripting.Thanking YoU

rikxik · 06-03-2009, 01:46 AM

Code:

find /main_directory -name "*.jpg" -exec cp -i {} /destination_directory/. \;

jschiwal · 06-03-2009, 01:48 AM

Look at the manpage for the "find" command.
You can look for files with the pattern "*.jpg". You can use -iname to find files in a directory and it's subdirectories. The -iname argument is case insensitive.

Also look at the -exec argument.

example:
find /path/to/directory/ -iname "*.jpg" -execdir cp '{}' /path/to/dest/dir/ \;

ajayan · 06-03-2009, 03:07 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by jschiwal

Look at the manpage for the "find" command.
You can look for files with the pattern "*.jpg". You can use -iname to find files in a directory and it's subdirectories. The -iname argument is case insensitive.

Also look at the -exec argument.

example:
find /path/to/directory/ -iname "*.jpg" -execdir cp '{}' /path/to/dest/dir/ \;

Yes.That works Fine Thankyou.But one question too.Whether we can rename the files with directory name also.Because the file with similar names will be overwrited.Not at a big problem.Can u please try with this

rikxik · 06-03-2009, 03:22 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by ajayan

Yes.That works Fine Thankyou.But one question too.Whether we can rename the files with directory name also.Because the file with similar names will be overwrited.Not at a big problem.Can u please try with this

Thats why I had put "cp -i" in my exec command - that will ask you just in case it finds multiple files with same name.