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05-05-2009, 12:33 AM
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Registered: Nov 2005
Location: Berkeley, CA
Distribution: Slackware, Arch, Zenwalk (pre-2012)
Posts: 41
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bash command - find |cp
I wanted to find all the python scripts on my local machine and put them in a directory eg. (/home/crackpipe/pythons), so I can look through them and learn. I'm attempting to learn Python. I tried this command, but it doesn't work, probably for obvious reasons to someone here:
Code:
$ find . -name *.py |cp $1 /home/click/pythons/
cp: missing destination file operand after `/home/crackpipe/pythons'
So it appears "$1" cannot be passed. Not sure what gets passed from "find", if anything. What's a good format to run this? I'm afraid to attempt something like
Code:
$ cp -r *.py /home/crackpipe/pythons
in case it attempts to duplicate the entire disk, or most of it, into /home/crackpipe/pythons. I just want the ".py"'s there. Thanks.
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05-05-2009, 12:39 AM
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LQ Guru
Registered: Mar 2006
Location: Sydney, Australia
Distribution: Fedora, CentOS, OpenSuse, Slack, Gentoo, Debian, Arch, PCBSD
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How about
find . -name *.py -exec cp {} /home/click/pythons/ \;
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05-05-2009, 01:03 AM
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Member
Registered: Nov 2005
Location: Berkeley, CA
Distribution: Slackware, Arch, Zenwalk (pre-2012)
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Quote:
Originally Posted by billymayday
How about
find . -name *.py -exec cp {} /home/crackpipe/pythons/ \;
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Well this was quite right. Many thanks. Now to understand Bash further, something I obviously need work on as well...
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05-05-2009, 02:33 AM
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Senior Member
Registered: Aug 2006
Posts: 2,697
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since you want to learn Python, here's a Python script that does what the find command does
Code:
import os,shutil
destination="/home/destination"
source="/src"
for r,d,f in os.walk(source):
for files in f:
if files.endswith(".py"):
'''assumes all python files ends with .py'''
'''if not, extra code to be written to further check'''
try:
'''move files to desintation'''
shutil.move(os.path.join(r,files),os.path.join(destination,files))
except Exception,e:
#print e
pass
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05-05-2009, 03:36 AM
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LQ Guru
Registered: Aug 2004
Location: Sydney
Distribution: Rocky 9.2
Posts: 18,426
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