Hi, On Mon, Sep 16, 2013 at 4:24 PM, Thomas Lübking <thomas.luebk...@gmail.com>wrote:
> On Montag, 16. September 2013 14:44:15 CEST, Frank Reininghaus wrote: > > Moreover, implementing something like that is far less trivial than >> one might think. >> > > Yesno. The "trick" is to only pass leave paths to the KIO::copy() urls > parameter and resolve dirs to leaves internally by present sort logics. > > It's however the far opposite of efficient - just assume there was a > network invike - and an extreme cornercase, so one should have a dedicated > tool (bash script or simple Qt application) to do it. Alternatively simply > mkdir target/folder and copy the contents of the source directory instead > of the directory (what will likely be sufficient in the described case to > get a ripped folder into an mp3 player) > > For a huge singleton copy operation to get an entire collection down, 5-10 > lines bash at max should do. > > Sth. along > dir="`realpath $1`" > for file in `ls -1 --sort=BlaFoo` $1; do if [ -d "$file" ]; then $0 > "$dir/$file" "$2"; else cp "$file" "$2/$1/"; fi > If sorting by filename is sufficient Linux actually has a tool for that called fatsort (http://fatsort.sourceforge.net/). It orders the entries in the FAT table based on the filenames and allows to move directories before or after the files as well. Andreas
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