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karruma
karruma

Reputation: 768

Find and copy all images preserving the folder structure

I am trying to find and copy all the images from one location to another preserving the folder structure. I have tried using the following command:

 sudo find . -type f -exec file {} \; | awk -F: '{ if ($2 ~/[Ii]mage|EPS/) print $1}'  | cpio -pdm  /media/newlocation

This works fine for couple of minutes (I have gigabytes of files to be found and copies) but after some time I am getting the following error:

find: `file' terminated by signal 13

What is wrong with the command? Is there better way of doing it?

Regards

Upvotes: 0

Views: 794

Answers (2)

idobr
idobr

Reputation: 1647

You can use rsync to copy one directory into another. If you need only some particular files, feel free to use --exclude and --include option.

rsync -avz --include='[iI]mage' --include='EPS' --exclude='*' source/ output/

To test command add rsync --dry-run option:

--dry-run perform a trial run with no changes made

You can find some examples of rsync include parameters in this thread.

Upvotes: 2

Joseph Larson
Joseph Larson

Reputation: 9058

I'm not sure why you'd get sigpipe.

Rather than letting find do an exec, you could try:

find . -type f -print | xargs file | awk ....

That is -- just let find print them out and xargs file to run the file command.

Note that your sudo command will do the find but it's not going to sudo the entire line. That's going to cause you more trouble (if you need sudo at all).

Upvotes: 2

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