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Gloytos htyqo
Gloytos htyqo

Reputation: 355

loop cat command for all files and subdirectory

I have lot of mp3 files that are in 2 languages so

language 1 is EN/1/1.mp3 .... .. EN/2/12.mp3

language 2 is DE/1/1.mp3 .... .. DE/2/12.mp3

So files are in same subfolder and same name, I want to merge them

EN/1/1.mp3 and DE/1/1.mp3 to be 1 file and to be saved on folder ENDE/1/1.mp3

I use this command

cat  EN/1/1.mp3 DE/1/1.mp3 > ENDE/1/1.mp3

and it works but I want something to that will loop this command to all files in all subfolders.

Upvotes: 0

Views: 690

Answers (1)

Geoffrey
Geoffrey

Reputation: 11354

To loop through the files you can use the following, but as @ekaerovets stated, I believe your file will be invalid.

cd EN
for F in */*.mp3; do
  mkdir -p ../ENDE/$(dirname $F)
  cat $F ../DE/$F > ../ENDE/$F
done

This is assuming you files are all only one sub directory deep. If the tree is deeper then find would be more appropriate, ie:

cd EN
for F in $(find -type f -name \*.mp3); do
  mkdir -p ../ENDE/$(dirname $F)
  cat $F ../DE/$F > ../ENDE/$F
done

Upvotes: 2

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