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jasn
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 Posted: Tue Aug 13, 2013 6:32 am Post subject: [Solved] bash recursively renaming any jpg to cover.jpg |
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I'm trying to walk the tree of my music files and rename any jpg file in place to cover.jpg. I've tried;
| Code: | | find . -name '*.jpg' | xargs -I {} mv {} cover.jpg |
on my test subdirs which contain;
| Code: | 1/1.jpg
2/2.jpg
3/3.jpg
4/4.jpg |
and the only thing I managed to do was to move each jpg file to my current upper level directory, and change the name to cover.jpg. (overwriting it 3 times of course)
| Code: | 1/
2/
3/
4/
cover.jpg |
Thanks..
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erikm
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| Posted: Tue Aug 13, 2013 7:21 am Post subject: |
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Try | Code: | | user@host ~ $ for i in $(find . -name '*jpg'); do mv $i ${i%\/*.jpg}/cover.jpg;done |
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Naib
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| Posted: Tue Aug 13, 2013 8:35 am Post subject: |
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find . -name '*.jpg' -exec mv {} 'cover.jpg' \;
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jasn
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| Posted: Tue Aug 13, 2013 2:39 pm Post subject: |
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First off, thank you both for providing me with this noobish help. I read what must have been 20 "linux rename recursively.." webpages last night, and I couldn't figure out the syntax in order to do what I wanted. erikm, your assistance got me a littler closer. Your one liner achieved what I wanted when I ran it against my test subdirectory. Before;
| Code: | 1/1.jpg
2/2.jpg
3/3.jpg
4/4.jpg |
| Code: | | for i in $(find . -name '*jpg'); do mv $i ${i%\/*.jpg}/cover.jpg;done |
After;
| Code: | 1/cover.jpg
2/cover.jpg
3/cover.jpg
4/cover.jpg |
but it fails when the jpg filename had spaces in the original filename. Before;
| Code: | 1/1 1.jpg
2/2 2.jpg
3/3 3.jpg
4/4 4.jpg |
| Code: | for i in $(find . -name '*jpg'); do mv $i ${i%\/*.jpg}/cover.jpg;done
mv: cannot stat './4/4': No such file or directory
mv: cannot stat '4.jpg': No such file or directory
mv: cannot stat './2/2': No such file or directory
mv: cannot stat '2.jpg': No such file or directory
mv: cannot stat './1/1': No such file or directory
mv: cannot stat '1.jpg': No such file or directory
mv: cannot stat './3/3': No such file or directory
mv: cannot stat '3.jpg': No such file or directory |
After;
| Code: | 1/1 1.jpg
2/2 2.jpg
3/3 3.jpg
4/4 4.jpg |
Naib, your one liner produced the same results as my previous one. Moving all jpgs to the upper level directory and renaming them to cover.jpg. Before;
| Code: | 1/1.jpg
2/2.jpg
3/3.jpg
4/4.jpg |
| Code: | | find . -name '*.jpg' -exec mv {} 'cover.jpg' \; |
After;
| Code: | 1/
2/
3/
4/
cover.jpg |
It might just be a matter of a misplaced bracket or parentheses, but I'm still stuck trying to sort out the last few bits.. |
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jasn
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| Posted: Tue Aug 13, 2013 7:47 pm Post subject: |
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I tried consulting several more howto webpages but still can't do what I want. The thing is I can find the files in my test subdirectory structure;
| Code: | find . -iname "*.jpg"
./4/4 4.jpg
./2/2 2.jpg
./1/1 1.jpg
./3/3 3.jpg
./1 1.jpg |
and I can use the rename command to rename files with whitespaces in them by doing;
| Code: | rename -v *.jpg cover.jpg *.jpg
`1 1.jpg' -> `cover.jpg' |
I just can't combine the two to sweep through the subdirs and rename all jpg files to cover.jpg together;
| Code: | find . -iname "*.jpg"
./4/4 4.jpg
./cover.jpg
./2/2 2.jpg
./1/1 1.jpg
./3/3 3.jpg |
Any one see what I'm obviously missing?
Thanks.. |
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Atom2
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| Posted: Tue Aug 13, 2013 7:48 pm Post subject: |
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Why don't you just use | Code: | | find . -name '*.jpg' -execdir mv {} cover.jpg \; |
Provided there's only one .jpg file in every subdirectory, that should solve your problem - unless I'm missing something.
Regards,
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jasn
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| Posted: Tue Aug 13, 2013 7:51 pm Post subject: |
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Atom2,
Thank you. That did it. I can stop pulling my hair out..
Jason |
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Atom2
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| Posted: Tue Aug 13, 2013 7:53 pm Post subject: |
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| jasn wrote: | | I can stop pulling my hair out.. |
I'm sure your barber will be glad to hear about that ...
Regards Atom2 |
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