Re: command to mv files folders to dir

2011-09-25 Thread Ivan Shmakov
 Mark Panen mark.pa...@gmail.com writes:
 On Sun, Sep 25, 2011 at 12:43 AM, Tom Furie t...@furie.org.uk wrote:
 On Sat, Sep 24, 2011 at 05:00:47PM +0700, Ivan Shmakov wrote:
 Tom Furie t...@furie.org.uk writes:

  What's wrong with 'mv /mnt/deer/* /mnt/deer/zebra'? Sure, it'll
  complain about trying to move zebra to itself, but it works.

  The other catch is that it won't consider the filenames with a
  leading dot, such as ‘.bashrc’.

  Well, true, but there was no mention of dot files in the original
  problem.

Neither it was stated that there were no such files.

[…]

  yes only the files put in /mnt/deer on 22/09/2011 must be moved to
  there own folder, but looks like i will have to spend days doing this
  manually as zebra is 378 gb big and i copied some files from zebra to
  /mnt/deer using cp (my bad) and i don't have much room to play with
  now as i only have 197gb left in /mnt/deer and a lot of duplicate
  files in /mnt/deer and /mnt/deer/zebra

To find the duplicates, the command like the following could
have been used:

$ cd /mnt/deer/ \
   find . -type f -not -wholename ./zebra/\* \
 -exec cmp -- {} zebra/{} \; \
 -print 

While to remove them (after double-checking!), the final -print
can be replaced with:

 -exec rm -v -- {} + 

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[g.l.d.user] Re: command to mv files folders to dir

2011-09-25 Thread Ivan Shmakov
 Mark Panen mark.pa...@gmail.com writes:
 On Sat, Sep 24, 2011 at 1:12 PM, Ivan Shmakov wrote:
 Mark Panen mark.pa...@gmail.com writes:
 On Sat, Sep 24, 2011 at 11:53 AM, Ivan Shmakov wrote:

[Cross-posting to comp.unix.shell for no good reason at all.]

[…]

  $ mkdir -pv -- /mnt/deer/zebra \
 find /mnt/deer/ -maxdepth 1 -mindepth 1 -not -name zebra \
   -exec mv --target-directory=/mnt/deer/zebra -- {} + 

  will this mv only the file/folders created on the 22/09/2011, i
  want the older files etc to stay behind.

  Somehow, I didn't understood that as part of the task.

  The -ctime constraint to find(1) may be helpful here, like:

  $ mkdir -pv -- /mnt/deer/zebra \
 find /mnt/deer/ \
   -maxdepth 1 -mindepth 1 -ctime -3 -not -name zebra \
   -exec mv --target-directory=/mnt/deer/zebra -- {} + 

  However, note that the Unix' “change time” is /not/ the file
  creation time (I know of no Unix filesystem to track the latter),
  but they /should/ coincide in this particular case.

  Note also that if the filesystem under /mnt is not a Unix one (such
  as VFAT), it should be checked whether the ctime is actually set as
  desired.  Like:

  $ LC_ALL=C stat -- /mnt/deer/foobar 

  (Where foobar is one of the files copied 2011-09-22.)  Check if the
  Change: field is set to 2011-09-22.

  The command made a folder called zebra and put all the contents of
  /mnt/deer in /mnt/deer/zebra so did not achieve my plan, the time
  stamp is now set at 24th for all, according to $ LC_ALL=C stat --
  /mnt/deer/,

Yes, because renaming the file is also counted as a “status
change.”

  ctime -3 seems to be the problem.

I should've cautioned better about the use of change time as a
distinguishing property.  Namely, the files that have properly
resided in /mnt/deer/ had to be checked for whether their
timestamps are distinct to those recently copied there.

I see two probably causes for the -ctime failure.  First of all,
if the other files were also “changed” recently (e. g., their
content or access mode changed, or they were renamed, or
created), -ctime may have been way too rough a constraint.  For
these cases, -cmin may fit better, but it's typically harder to
use.

Also, the filesystem of /mnt/deer/ may somehow lacked the
support for change timestamps, or had them behaving differently.

That being said, there're still ways to recover, though these
are even less straightforward than those for the original
problem.

E. g., a list of all the filenames directly under the original
sources for either /mnt/deer/ or /mnt/deer/zebra/ could be
composed.  Like, e. g.:

$ cd /orig/deer/   find -mindepth 1 -maxdepth 1 -print  /tmp/deer.list 
$ cd /orig/zebra/  find -mindepth 1 -maxdepth 1 -print  /tmp/zebra.list 
$ 

(I hereafter assume that filenames do not contain any special
codes, such as ASCII LF, or Line Feed, or 10.)

Now, as everything is now below /mnt/deer/zebra/, let's try to
bring those originally in /orig/deer/ back into /mnt/deer/:

$ (while read f ; do \
   mv -vi -- /mnt/deer/zebra/$f /mnt/deer/$f ; \
   done)  /tmp/deer.list 

Of course, the above will consider only the filenames.  It's
impossible to recover if there were two distinct files under
/orig/deer/ and /orig/zebra/ sharing a single (relative)
filename.  (Though that's mainly because one of them was written
over the other thanks either to the original cp(1), or to mv(1)
in the recovery attempt above.)

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Re: command to mv files folders to dir

2011-09-25 Thread Ivan Shmakov
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2011-09-25, 15:32(+07), Ivan Shmakov:
[...]
   (I hereafter assume that filenames do not contain any special
   codes, such as ASCII LF, or Line Feed, or 10.)

[...]

Or backslashes, or trailing blanks.

 $ (while read f ; do \
mv -vi -- /mnt/deer/zebra/$f /mnt/deer/$f ; \
done)  /tmp/deer.list 
[...]

Also note that mv with -i might read from its standard input, so
you may prefer:

ret=0
while IFS= read 3 -r f; do
  mv -vi -- /mnt/deer/zebra/$f /mnt/deer/$f || ret=$?
done 3 /tmp/deer.list
(exit $ret)

See also xargs(1) to avoid having to use a shell loop.

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Re: command to mv files folders to dir

2011-09-25 Thread shawn wilson
TIMDOWDY - there's more than one way to do it :)


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command to mv files folders to dir

2011-09-24 Thread Mark Panen
Hi,

Made a bit off a muck up off things when i backed up parts of my
/home/mark directory to /mnt/deer

In /mnt/deer i know have hundreds of files and folders which i rsynced
on 22/09/2011.

I need a command line option to put them all In one shot in /mnt/deer/zebra.

Mark


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Re: command to mv files folders to dir

2011-09-24 Thread Tom Furie
On Sat, Sep 24, 2011 at 11:40:48AM +0200, Mark Panen wrote:

 In /mnt/deer i know have hundreds of files and folders which i rsynced
 on 22/09/2011.
 
 I need a command line option to put them all In one shot in /mnt/deer/zebra.

What's wrong with 'mv /mnt/deer/* /mnt/deer/zebra'? Sure, it'll complain
about trying to move zebra to itself, but it works.

Cheers,
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Re: command to mv files folders to dir

2011-09-24 Thread Ivan Shmakov
 Mark Panen mark.pa...@gmail.com writes:

  Made a bit off a muck up off things when i backed up parts of my
  /home/mark directory to /mnt/deer

  In /mnt/deer i know have hundreds of files and folders which i
  rsynced on 22/09/2011.

  I need a command line option to put them all In one shot in
  /mnt/deer/zebra.

It's not what I'd usually call “one shot” (= atomic), but, IIUC,
the following single command line should do it:

$ mkdir -pv -- /mnt/deer/zebra \
   find /mnt/deer/ -maxdepth 1 -mindepth 1 -not -name zebra \
 -exec mv --target-directory=/mnt/deer/zebra -- {} + 

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Re: command to mv files folders to dir

2011-09-24 Thread Ivan Shmakov
 Tom Furie t...@furie.org.uk writes:
 On Sat, Sep 24, 2011 at 11:40:48AM +0200, Mark Panen wrote:

  In /mnt/deer i know have hundreds of files and folders which i
  rsynced on 22/09/2011.

  I need a command line option to put them all In one shot in
  /mnt/deer/zebra.

  What's wrong with 'mv /mnt/deer/* /mnt/deer/zebra'? Sure, it'll
  complain about trying to move zebra to itself, but it works.

The other catch is that it won't consider the filenames with a
leading dot, such as ‘.bashrc’.

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Re: command to mv files folders to dir

2011-09-24 Thread Camaleón
On Sat, 24 Sep 2011 11:40:48 +0200, Mark Panen wrote:

 Made a bit off a muck up off things when i backed up parts of my
 /home/mark directory to /mnt/deer
 
 In /mnt/deer i know have hundreds of files and folders which i rsynced
 on 22/09/2011.
 
 I need a command line option to put them all In one shot in
 /mnt/deer/zebra.

Not a command line but Midnight Commander is very good for such day-to-
day tasks.

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Re: command to mv files folders to dir

2011-09-24 Thread Ivan Shmakov
 Camaleón  noela...@gmail.com writes:
 On Sat, 24 Sep 2011 11:40:48 +0200, Mark Panen wrote:

  Made a bit off a muck up off things when i backed up parts of my
  /home/mark directory to /mnt/deer

  In /mnt/deer i know have hundreds of files and folders which i
  rsynced on 22/09/2011.

  I need a command line option to put them all In one shot in
  /mnt/deer/zebra.

  Not a command line but Midnight Commander is very good for such
  day-to- day tasks.

Following the suggestion of Victor Wagner (in
news:fido7.ru.unix.linux, I believe), I've dropped
Midnight Commander in favor of Bash something like a decade ago.

I've never regret the change.

Midnight Commander may simplify the simple things, but
whatever's your experience with it, the complex tasks are often
impossible.  On the contrary, Shell lets one to benefit from the
experience, and the solutions to the simpler tasks could usually
be re-used to solve the more complex ones.

Not to mention that the use of Shell keeps one's mind “in
shape.”

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Re: command to mv files folders to dir

2011-09-24 Thread Camaleón
On Sat, 24 Sep 2011 17:31:47 +0700, Ivan Shmakov wrote:

 Camaleón  noela...@gmail.com writes: On Sat, 24 Sep 2011 11:40:48

   Not a command line but Midnight Commander is very good for such
   day-to- day tasks.
 
   Following the suggestion of Victor Wagner (in 
news:fido7.ru.unix.linux,
   I believe), I've dropped Midnight Commander in favor of Bash 
something
   like a decade ago.
 
   I've never regret the change.
 
   Midnight Commander may simplify the simple things, but whatever's 
your
   experience with it, the complex tasks are often impossible. 
On 
the
   contrary, Shell lets one to benefit from the experience, and the
   solutions to the simpler tasks could usually be re-used to solve 
the
   more complex ones.

Midnight Commander is very powerful, I have no complaints over it. It 
helped me when I first started managing servers with no GUI and still 
find it very useful to run some tasks and to avoid fat fingers errors.

   Not to mention that the use of Shell keeps one's mind “in shape.”

Both (direct typing and MC) are not mutually exclusive. You can use the 
best of the two worlds to obtain a better ratio of quickness while 
keeping you mind in good shape.

MC does not need vitamins to keep its brain activity always at 100%. I do.

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Re: command to mv files folders to dir

2011-09-24 Thread Mark Panen
On Sat, Sep 24, 2011 at 11:53 AM, Ivan Shmakov i...@gray.siamics.net wrote:
 Mark Panen mark.pa...@gmail.com writes:

   Made a bit off a muck up off things when i backed up parts of my
   /home/mark directory to /mnt/deer

   In /mnt/deer i know have hundreds of files and folders which i
   rsynced on 22/09/2011.

   I need a command line option to put them all In one shot in
   /mnt/deer/zebra.

        It's not what I'd usually call “one shot” (= atomic), but, IIUC,
        the following single command line should do it:

 $ mkdir -pv -- /mnt/deer/zebra \
       find /mnt/deer/ -maxdepth 1 -mindepth 1 -not -name zebra \
             -exec mv --target-directory=/mnt/deer/zebra -- {} +

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will this mv only the file/folders created on the 22/09/2011, i want
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Re: command to mv files folders to dir

2011-09-24 Thread Andrew McGlashan

Mark Panen wrote:

Made a bit off a muck up off things when i backed up parts of my
/home/mark directory to /mnt/deer

In /mnt/deer i know have hundreds of files and folders which i rsynced
on 22/09/2011.

I need a command line option to put them all In one shot in /mnt/deer/zebra.


(cd /mnt/deer;mkdir zebra;mv * .* zebra)

And yes, sure it will complain about . and .. as well as zebra, but 
it'll work fine for all other files / directories / links.


if there are too many files for the wild cards to work, then you'll have 
a bit more fun, let us know.   ;-)


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Re: command to mv files folders to dir

2011-09-24 Thread Ivan Shmakov
 Mark Panen mark.pa...@gmail.com writes:
 On Sat, Sep 24, 2011 at 11:53 AM, Ivan Shmakov wrote:
 Mark Panen mark.pa...@gmail.com writes:

  Made a bit off a muck up off things when i backed up parts of my
  /home/mark directory to /mnt/deer

  In /mnt/deer i know have hundreds of files and folders which i
  rsynced on 22/09/2011.

  I need a command line option to put them all In one shot in
  /mnt/deer/zebra.

  It's not what I'd usually call “one shot” (= atomic), but, IIUC,
  the following single command line should do it:

  $ mkdir -pv -- /mnt/deer/zebra \
 find /mnt/deer/ -maxdepth 1 -mindepth 1 -not -name zebra \
   -exec mv --target-directory=/mnt/deer/zebra -- {} +

  will this mv only the file/folders created on the 22/09/2011, i want
  the older files etc to stay behind.

Somehow, I didn't understood that as part of the task.

The -ctime constraint to find(1) may be helpful here, like:

$ mkdir -pv -- /mnt/deer/zebra \
   find /mnt/deer/ \
 -maxdepth 1 -mindepth 1 -ctime -3 -not -name zebra \
 -exec mv --target-directory=/mnt/deer/zebra -- {} + 

However, note that the Unix' “change time” is /not/ the file
creation time (I know of no Unix filesystem to track the
latter), but they /should/ coincide in this particular case.

Note also that if the filesystem under /mnt is not a Unix one
(such as VFAT), it should be checked whether the ctime is
actually set as desired.  Like:

$ LC_ALL=C stat -- /mnt/deer/foobar 

(Where foobar is one of the files copied 2011-09-22.)  Check if
the Change: field is set to 2011-09-22.

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Re: command to mv files folders to dir

2011-09-24 Thread Osamu Aoki
Hi,

On Sat, Sep 24, 2011 at 05:31:47PM +0700, Ivan Shmakov wrote:
  Camaleón  noela...@gmail.com writes:
  On Sat, 24 Sep 2011 11:40:48 +0200, Mark Panen wrote:
 
   Made a bit off a muck up off things when i backed up parts of my
   /home/mark directory to /mnt/deer
 
   In /mnt/deer i know have hundreds of files and folders which i
   rsynced on 22/09/2011.
 
   I need a command line option to put them all In one shot in
   /mnt/deer/zebra.
 
   Not a command line but Midnight Commander is very good for such
   day-to- day tasks.
 
   Following the suggestion of Victor Wagner (in
   news:fido7.ru.unix.linux, I believe), I've dropped
   Midnight Commander in favor of Bash something like a decade ago.
 
   I've never regret the change.
 
   Midnight Commander may simplify the simple things, but
   whatever's your experience with it, the complex tasks are often
   impossible.  

??? It is possible but repeating it is a bit of hussle.

 On the contrary, Shell lets one to benefit from the
   experience, and the solutions to the simpler tasks could usually
   be re-used to solve the more complex ones.

But task described does not seem to be much of repeat action. MC can do
this by:
 * Open old and new directory in each panel.
 * Mark all directory then unmark new directory in the old directory panel
 * press F6
== DONE!

   Not to mention that the use of Shell keeps one's mind “in
   shape.”

Hmmm...

MC is good for interactive complex task while shell command with find
command is good for repeated complex task.  Many shell scripts tends
to become very complex which requires too much time for debugging.

When there is some exclusion rule etc., most commands with rsync etc.
becomes nealy impossible to debug for people like me.

Anyway, here are typical tricks used to copy files.

  
http://www.debian.org/doc/manuals/debian-reference/ch10.en.html#_idioms_for_the_copy

If you combine this with find as described in the following link, it can
really do any complicated selection and copy.

  
http://www.debian.org/doc/manuals/debian-reference/ch10.en.html#_idioms_for_the_selection_of_files

This is good if you are making backup script for regular backups.  It
can be told to pick file by date or size  Or you can create target
directory name automatically by date.  That is when you need such shell
script.

(I would not bother doing this just for simple task like what you
described.  If you configure MC to display hidden files, it is very
powerful.)

Regards,

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Re: command to mv files folders to dir

2011-09-24 Thread Mark Panen
On Sat, Sep 24, 2011 at 1:12 PM, Ivan Shmakov i...@gray.siamics.net wrote:
 Mark Panen mark.pa...@gmail.com writes:
 On Sat, Sep 24, 2011 at 11:53 AM, Ivan Shmakov wrote:
 Mark Panen mark.pa...@gmail.com writes:

   Made a bit off a muck up off things when i backed up parts of my
   /home/mark directory to /mnt/deer

   In /mnt/deer i know have hundreds of files and folders which i
   rsynced on 22/09/2011.

   I need a command line option to put them all In one shot in
   /mnt/deer/zebra.

   It's not what I'd usually call “one shot” (= atomic), but, IIUC,
   the following single command line should do it:

   $ mkdir -pv -- /mnt/deer/zebra \
          find /mnt/deer/ -maxdepth 1 -mindepth 1 -not -name zebra \
                -exec mv --target-directory=/mnt/deer/zebra -- {} +

   will this mv only the file/folders created on the 22/09/2011, i want
   the older files etc to stay behind.

        Somehow, I didn't understood that as part of the task.

        The -ctime constraint to find(1) may be helpful here, like:

 $ mkdir -pv -- /mnt/deer/zebra \
       find /mnt/deer/ \
             -maxdepth 1 -mindepth 1 -ctime -3 -not -name zebra \
             -exec mv --target-directory=/mnt/deer/zebra -- {} +

        However, note that the Unix' “change time” is /not/ the file
        creation time (I know of no Unix filesystem to track the
        latter), but they /should/ coincide in this particular case.

        Note also that if the filesystem under /mnt is not a Unix one
        (such as VFAT), it should be checked whether the ctime is
        actually set as desired.  Like:

 $ LC_ALL=C stat -- /mnt/deer/foobar

        (Where foobar is one of the files copied 2011-09-22.)  Check if
        the Change: field is set to 2011-09-22.

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The command made a folder called zebra and put all the contents of
/mnt/deer in /mnt/deer/zebra so did not achieve my plan, the time
stamp is now set at 24th for all, according to $ LC_ALL=C stat --
/mnt/deer/,  ctime -3 seems to be the problem.


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Re: command to mv files folders to dir

2011-09-24 Thread Tom Furie
On Sat, Sep 24, 2011 at 05:00:47PM +0700, Ivan Shmakov wrote:
  Tom Furie t...@furie.org.uk writes:
   What's wrong with 'mv /mnt/deer/* /mnt/deer/zebra'? Sure, it'll
   complain about trying to move zebra to itself, but it works.
 
   The other catch is that it won't consider the filenames with a
   leading dot, such as ‘.bashrc’.

Well, true, but there was no mention of dot files in the original
problem. Or, as has since transpired, that only some of the files in
/mnt/deer should be moved to /mnt/deer/zebra.

Ask me a question, I'll give an answer to the question. It's not my
fault that the wrong question was asked.

Cheers,
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Re: command to mv files folders to dir

2011-09-24 Thread Mark Panen
On Sun, Sep 25, 2011 at 12:43 AM, Tom Furie t...@furie.org.uk wrote:
 On Sat, Sep 24, 2011 at 05:00:47PM +0700, Ivan Shmakov wrote:
  Tom Furie t...@furie.org.uk writes:
   What's wrong with 'mv /mnt/deer/* /mnt/deer/zebra'? Sure, it'll
   complain about trying to move zebra to itself, but it works.

       The other catch is that it won't consider the filenames with a
       leading dot, such as ‘.bashrc’.

 Well, true, but there was no mention of dot files in the original
 problem. Or, as has since transpired, that only some of the files in
 /mnt/deer should be moved to /mnt/deer/zebra.

 Ask me a question, I'll give an answer to the question. It's not my
 fault that the wrong question was asked.

 Cheers,
 Tom

 --
 When neither their poverty nor their honor is touched, the majority of men
 live content.
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yes only the files put in /mnt/deer on 22/09/2011 must be moved to
there own folder, but looks like i will have to spend days doing this
manually as zebra is 378 gb big and i copied some files from zebra to
/mnt/deer using cp (my bad) and i don't have much room to play with
now as i only have 197gb left in /mnt/deer and a lot of duplicate
files in /mnt/deer and /mnt/deer/zebra


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