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grep, maybe
by Maurice-10
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Looking for some guidance;
I have several files within several folders (5 files per folder, and thousands of folders) that I need to search a text file within each folder for a word match (like three_little_pigs.txt, and I need to find "moe", if he's listed) and then when a match is found I need to move (not copy) that entire folder (and it's 3~5 files contained within) to another location... I'm thinking grep, but don't know the correct syntax to make all this happen. I can easily find all the folders (1949 of them) and the word match 3923 times within the text file(s)... Any ideas??? -- -Maurice Pelletier Child Development Services - Cumberland County 50 Depot Road Falmouth, ME 04105 207-781-8881 (voice) 207-781-8855 (fax) www.cds-cumberland.org "Linux -- it's not just for breakfast anymore..." -Moe _______________________________________________ Discuss mailing list Discuss@... http://lists.blu.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss |
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Re: grep, maybe
by David Hummel-2
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On Thu, Oct 29, 2009 at 11:38 AM, Maurice <mauricep@...> wrote:
> > I have several files within several folders (5 files per folder, and > thousands of folders) that I need to search a text file within each > folder for a word match (like three_little_pigs.txt, and I need to find > "moe", if he's listed) and then when a match is found I need to move > (not copy) that entire folder (and it's 3~5 files contained within) to > another location... You'll want to script this with something like: pig=moe dest=/some/dir for d in $*; do grep -q $pig $d/*.txt && mv $d $dest done _______________________________________________ Discuss mailing list Discuss@... http://lists.blu.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss |
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Re: grep, maybe
by John Abreau-18
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Assuming no spaces or other troublesome metacharacters
in the filenames and folder names: mv $( find /path/to/src/root -type f | xargs grep -l moe | sed 's-/[^/]*$--' | sort -u ) /path/to/destination/ The example should all be on one line, of course. On Thu, Oct 29, 2009 at 11:38 AM, Maurice <mauricep@...> wrote: > Looking for some guidance; > > I have several files within several folders (5 files per folder, and > thousands of folders) that I need to search a text file within each > folder for a word match (like three_little_pigs.txt, and I need to find > "moe", if he's listed) and then when a match is found I need to move > (not copy) that entire folder (and it's 3~5 files contained within) to > another location... > > I'm thinking grep, but don't know the correct syntax to make all this > happen. > I can easily find all the folders (1949 of them) and the word match 3923 > times within the text file(s)... > > > Any ideas??? > > > -- > -Maurice Pelletier > Child Development Services - Cumberland County > 50 Depot Road > Falmouth, ME 04105 > 207-781-8881 (voice) > 207-781-8855 (fax) > > www.cds-cumberland.org > > > "Linux -- it's not just for breakfast anymore..." > -Moe > > > > _______________________________________________ > Discuss mailing list > Discuss@... > http://lists.blu.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss > -- John Abreau / Executive Director, Boston Linux & Unix AIM abreauj / JABBER jabr@... / YAHOO abreauj / SKYPE zusa_it_mgr Email jabr@... / WWW http://www.abreau.net / PGP-Key-ID 0xD5C7B5D9 PGP-Key-Fingerprint 72 FB 39 4F 3C 3B D6 5B E0 C8 5A 6E F1 2C BE 99 _______________________________________________ Discuss mailing list Discuss@... http://lists.blu.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss |
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Re: grep, maybe
by Dan Ritter-2
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On Thu, Oct 29, 2009 at 11:38:03AM -0400, Maurice wrote:
> Looking for some guidance; > > I have several files within several folders (5 files per folder, and > thousands of folders) that I need to search a text file within each > folder for a word match (like three_little_pigs.txt, and I need to find > "moe", if he's listed) and then when a match is found I need to move > (not copy) that entire folder (and it's 3~5 files contained within) to > another location... > > I'm thinking grep, but don't know the correct syntax to make all this > happen. > I can easily find all the folders (1949 of them) and the word match 3923 > times within the text file(s)... grep -lr STRING | xargs -n1 -I QZQ mv QZQ /path/to/destination/ grep -l means print the filenames where a match is found -r means recursively xargs -n1 means supply one argument per command -I QZQ means replace QZQ with the argument untested, but probably close. -- http://tao.merseine.nu/~dsr/eula.html is hereby incorporated by reference. You can't defend freedom by getting rid of it. _______________________________________________ Discuss mailing list Discuss@... http://lists.blu.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss |
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Re: grep, maybe
by darose
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On 10/29/2009 11:47 AM, John Abreau wrote:
> Assuming no spaces or other troublesome metacharacters > in the filenames and folder names: > > mv $( find /path/to/src/root -type f | xargs grep -l moe | > sed 's-/[^/]*$--' | sort -u ) /path/to/destination/ If there are spaces, then change it to: ... find /path/to/src/root -type f -print0 | xargs -0 grep -l moe ... DR _______________________________________________ Discuss mailing list Discuss@... http://lists.blu.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss |
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Re: grep, maybe
by John Abreau-18
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Actually, this will fail due to the "mv" command line being too long.
However, the part between the $( ... ) gives you a list of all folders to be moved. In case there are nested folders, the "sort -u" should be changed to "sort -ru" to reverse-sort the list, so inner folders get moved before their parent is moved. On Thu, Oct 29, 2009 at 11:47 AM, John Abreau <jabr@...> wrote: > Assuming no spaces or other troublesome metacharacters > in the filenames and folder names: > > mv $( find /path/to/src/root -type f | xargs grep -l moe | > sed 's-/[^/]*$--' | sort -u ) /path/to/destination/ > > The example should all be on one line, of course. > > > > > On Thu, Oct 29, 2009 at 11:38 AM, Maurice <mauricep@...> wrote: >> Looking for some guidance; >> >> I have several files within several folders (5 files per folder, and >> thousands of folders) that I need to search a text file within each >> folder for a word match (like three_little_pigs.txt, and I need to find >> "moe", if he's listed) and then when a match is found I need to move >> (not copy) that entire folder (and it's 3~5 files contained within) to >> another location... >> >> I'm thinking grep, but don't know the correct syntax to make all this >> happen. >> I can easily find all the folders (1949 of them) and the word match 3923 >> times within the text file(s)... >> >> >> Any ideas??? >> >> >> -- >> -Maurice Pelletier >> Child Development Services - Cumberland County >> 50 Depot Road >> Falmouth, ME 04105 >> 207-781-8881 (voice) >> 207-781-8855 (fax) >> >> www.cds-cumberland.org >> >> >> "Linux -- it's not just for breakfast anymore..." >> -Moe >> >> >> >> _______________________________________________ >> Discuss mailing list >> Discuss@... >> http://lists.blu.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss >> > > > > -- > John Abreau / Executive Director, Boston Linux & Unix > AIM abreauj / JABBER jabr@... / YAHOO abreauj / SKYPE zusa_it_mgr > Email jabr@... / WWW http://www.abreau.net / PGP-Key-ID 0xD5C7B5D9 > PGP-Key-Fingerprint 72 FB 39 4F 3C 3B D6 5B E0 C8 5A 6E F1 2C BE 99 > -- John Abreau / Executive Director, Boston Linux & Unix AIM abreauj / JABBER jabr@... / YAHOO abreauj / SKYPE zusa_it_mgr Email jabr@... / WWW http://www.abreau.net / PGP-Key-ID 0xD5C7B5D9 PGP-Key-Fingerprint 72 FB 39 4F 3C 3B D6 5B E0 C8 5A 6E F1 2C BE 99 _______________________________________________ Discuss mailing list Discuss@... http://lists.blu.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss |
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Re: grep, maybe
by John Abreau-18
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The move can be done via xargs.
find ... | xargs grep -l ... | sed ... | xargs -I '{}' mv '{}' /path/to/destination/ On Thu, Oct 29, 2009 at 11:56 AM, John Abreau <jabr@...> wrote: > Actually, this will fail due to the "mv" command line being too long. > However, the part between the $( ... ) gives you a list of all folders > to be moved. > > In case there are nested folders, the "sort -u" should be changed > to "sort -ru" to reverse-sort the list, so inner folders get moved > before their parent is moved. > > > > On Thu, Oct 29, 2009 at 11:47 AM, John Abreau <jabr@...> wrote: >> Assuming no spaces or other troublesome metacharacters >> in the filenames and folder names: >> >> mv $( find /path/to/src/root -type f | xargs grep -l moe | >> sed 's-/[^/]*$--' | sort -u ) /path/to/destination/ >> >> The example should all be on one line, of course. >> >> >> >> >> On Thu, Oct 29, 2009 at 11:38 AM, Maurice <mauricep@...> wrote: >>> Looking for some guidance; >>> >>> I have several files within several folders (5 files per folder, and >>> thousands of folders) that I need to search a text file within each >>> folder for a word match (like three_little_pigs.txt, and I need to find >>> "moe", if he's listed) and then when a match is found I need to move >>> (not copy) that entire folder (and it's 3~5 files contained within) to >>> another location... >>> >>> I'm thinking grep, but don't know the correct syntax to make all this >>> happen. >>> I can easily find all the folders (1949 of them) and the word match 3923 >>> times within the text file(s)... >>> >>> >>> Any ideas??? >>> >>> >>> -- >>> -Maurice Pelletier >>> Child Development Services - Cumberland County >>> 50 Depot Road >>> Falmouth, ME 04105 >>> 207-781-8881 (voice) >>> 207-781-8855 (fax) >>> >>> www.cds-cumberland.org >>> >>> >>> "Linux -- it's not just for breakfast anymore..." >>> -Moe >>> >>> >>> >>> _______________________________________________ >>> Discuss mailing list >>> Discuss@... >>> http://lists.blu.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss >>> >> >> >> >> -- >> John Abreau / Executive Director, Boston Linux & Unix >> AIM abreauj / JABBER jabr@... / YAHOO abreauj / SKYPE zusa_it_mgr >> Email jabr@... / WWW http://www.abreau.net / PGP-Key-ID 0xD5C7B5D9 >> PGP-Key-Fingerprint 72 FB 39 4F 3C 3B D6 5B E0 C8 5A 6E F1 2C BE 99 >> > > > > -- > John Abreau / Executive Director, Boston Linux & Unix > AIM abreauj / JABBER jabr@... / YAHOO abreauj / SKYPE zusa_it_mgr > Email jabr@... / WWW http://www.abreau.net / PGP-Key-ID 0xD5C7B5D9 > PGP-Key-Fingerprint 72 FB 39 4F 3C 3B D6 5B E0 C8 5A 6E F1 2C BE 99 > -- John Abreau / Executive Director, Boston Linux & Unix AIM abreauj / JABBER jabr@... / YAHOO abreauj / SKYPE zusa_it_mgr Email jabr@... / WWW http://www.abreau.net / PGP-Key-ID 0xD5C7B5D9 PGP-Key-Fingerprint 72 FB 39 4F 3C 3B D6 5B E0 C8 5A 6E F1 2C BE 99 _______________________________________________ Discuss mailing list Discuss@... http://lists.blu.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss |
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