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Swanand
Swanand

Reputation: 117

Move the files to a specific folder in unix

I have a script to move files of type .txt to a particular folder .It looks for the files in work folder and move it to completed folder. I would like to make the script generic i.e to enhance the script so that the scripts works not for just one particular folder but other similar folders as well. Example: If there is a .txt file in folder /tmp/swan/test/work and also in folder /tmp/swan/test11/work, the files should move to /tmp/swan/test/done and /tmp/swan/test11/done respectively. EDIT:Also, if there is a .txt file in a sub folder like /tmp/swan/test11/work/APX that should also move to /tmp/swan/test11/done

Below is the current script.

  #!/bin/bash

  MY_DIR=/tmp/swan

  cd $MY_DIR

  find .  -path "*work*"  -iname "*.txt" -type f -execdir mv '{}' /tmp/swan/test/done \;

Upvotes: 0

Views: 223

Answers (3)

chepner
chepner

Reputation: 530960

With -execdir, the mv command is executed in whatever directory the file is found in. Since you just want to move the file to a "sibling" directory, each command can use the same relative path ../done.

find . -path "*work*"  -iname "*.txt" -type f -execdir mv '{}' ../done \;

Upvotes: 2

Renaud Pacalet
Renaud Pacalet

Reputation: 28965

What about:

find . -path '*work/*.txt' -exec sh -c 'd=$(dirname $(dirname $1))/done; mkdir -p $d; mv $1 $d' _ {} \;

(also creates the target directory if it does not exist already).

Upvotes: 0

Petr Skocik
Petr Skocik

Reputation: 60058

One way to do it:

Background:

$ tree
.
├── a
│   └── work
└── b
    └── work

Renaming:

find . -type f -name work -exec \
sh -c 'echo mv "$1" "$(dirname "$1")"/done' -- {} \;

Output:

mv ./a/work ./a/done
mv ./b/work ./b/done

You can remove the echo if it does what you want it to.

Upvotes: 0

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