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Dealing with files in the command line
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| #Image format conversion | |
| brew install imagemagick | |
| #bmp to jpg | |
| mogrify -format jpg *.bmp | |
| #http://www.imagemagick.org/script/mogrify.php | |
| #file rename tool | |
| brew install rename | |
| #http://plasmasturm.org/code/rename/ | |
| # Copy large number of files - a more robust way | |
| # operation will commense upon error; | |
| # operation will specify defected files | |
| # great for use when you have disk issues | |
| ➜ ~ rsync -av --log-file=copy.txt --progress /Volumes/source/DATA/* /Volumes/destination/DATA/ | |
| ➜ ~ rsync -av --exclude='/home/my_name/directory_with_corrupt_files/*' | |
| ➜ ~ tail -f copy.txt | |
| #comparing 2 directories | |
| diff <(cd /Volumes/TB/Pictures/by\ years/2010 && find . | sort) <(cd /Volumes/Iomega\ HDD/MyData/_private/media/pictures/events/2010 && find . | sort) > 2007.txt | |
| # comparing 2 directories for file structure not file-content | |
| # http://askubuntu.com/questions/421712/comparing-the-contents-of-two-directories-using-bash | |
| ➜ diff <(cd ~/DATA/ && find . | sort) <(cd /Volumes/Seagate/DATA/ && find . | sort) | |
| # output # | |
| 58130d58129 | |
| < ./some/directory/.DS_Store | |
| 58284d58282 | |
| > ./some/other/directory/image.bmp | |
| # comparing 2 directories recursively with file-content compare | |
| # http://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/49496/recursively-compare-two-directories-with-diff-r-without-output-on-broken-links | |
| ➜ for f in `find ~/DATA/ ! -type l`;do diff -rq $f /Volumes/Seagate/DATA/;done | |
| # output # | |
| Files /Users/.../DATA/.DS_Store and /Volumes/Seagate/DATA/.DS_Store differ | |
| Files /Users/ ... | |
| ... | |
| # search for files with 'jdk' in their filename and 'Intelli' in their path | |
| ➜ find /Users -name "*jdk*" | grep Intelli | |
| # output # | |
| /Users/odeds/Library/Caches/IntelliJIdea12/jars/bcprov-jdk14-138.jar.4178c67f | |
| /Users/odeds/Library/Caches/IntelliJIdea12/jars/json-lib-2.2.2-jdk15.jar.675dc09e | |
| # search for files with "hosts" in their path | |
| ➜ locate hosts | |
| # auto rename files | |
| ## first replace all space in file name | |
| ➜ for f in *\ *; do mv "$f" "${f// /_}"; done | |
| ## dry run replace on current dir only | |
| ➜ for i in `ls -1 05-4-*`;do echo mv \"$i\" \"${i//05-4-/05-5-}\";done | |
| ## dry run replace- specifying a dir recursively | |
| ➜ for i in `find . -name "05-4-*"`;do echo mv \"$i\" \"${i//05-4-/05-5-}\";done | |
| ## execute the file renaming | |
| ➜ for i in `find . -name "05-4-*"`;do echo mv \"$i\" \"${i//05-4-/05-5-}\";done | /bin/zsh | |
| #view mounted dirs in cli | |
| ➜ cd /Volumes | |
| # remove Picasa "Originals" folder nested within a root Album dir | |
| ➜ find . -iname "Originals" -exec rm -rf "{}" + | |
| ➜ find . -iname ".picasaoriginals" -exec rm -rf "{}" + | |
| # another option using xargs which gave me a too long error | |
| ➜ find . -name "Originals" | xargs -0 rm -rf | |
| # using jhead to modify jpeg exif data. rewite file create date + modify date+ camera date | |
| # basically we create an exif header. Then we set the file date to the exif date then we specify the date | |
| ➜ find . -iname "*.jp*g" -exec jhead -mkexif -ft -ds1960:01:01 {} + |
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