{"id":753,"date":"2014-11-21T09:21:56","date_gmt":"2014-11-21T14:21:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/xfloyd.net\/blog\/?p=753"},"modified":"2014-12-20T11:01:00","modified_gmt":"2014-12-20T16:01:00","slug":"archive-files-and-folders-in-linux","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/xfloyd.net\/blog\/?p=753","title":{"rendered":"Archive files and folders in Linux"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>ASSERT: No files have newline characters in them. Spaces, however, are AOK.<\/p>\n<p># TEST FIRST: CREATION OF FOLDERS<br \/>\nfind . -type f -iname \\*.mov -printf &#8216;%h\\n&#8217; | sort | uniq | xargs -n 1 -d &#8216;\\n&#8217; -I &#8216;{}&#8217; echo mkdir -vp &#8220;\/TARGET_FOLDER_ROOT\/{}&#8221;<\/p>\n<p># EXECUTE CREATION OF EMPTY TARGET FOLDERS<br \/>\nfind . -type f -iname \\*.mov -printf &#8216;%h\\n&#8217; | sort | uniq | xargs -n 1 -d &#8216;\\n&#8217; -I &#8216;{}&#8217; mkdir -vp &#8220;\/TARGET_FOLDER_ROOT\/{}&#8221;<\/p>\n<p># TEST FIRST: REVIEW FILES TO BE MOVED<br \/>\nfind . -type f -iname \\*.mov -exec echo mv {} \/TARGET_FOLDER_ROOT\/{} \\;<\/p>\n<p># EXECUTE MOVE FILES<br \/>\nfind . -type f -iname \\*.mov -exec mv {} \/TARGET_FOLDER_ROOT\/{} \\;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>ASSERT: No files have newline characters in them. Spaces, however, are AOK. # TEST FIRST: CREATION OF FOLDERS find . -type f -iname \\*.mov -printf &#8216;%h\\n&#8217; | sort | uniq | xargs -n 1 -d &#8216;\\n&#8217; -I &#8216;{}&#8217; echo mkdir -vp &#8220;\/TARGET_FOLDER_ROOT\/{}&#8221; # EXECUTE CREATION OF EMPTY TARGET FOLDERS find . -type f -iname \\*.mov [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/xfloyd.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/753"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/xfloyd.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/xfloyd.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/xfloyd.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/xfloyd.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=753"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/xfloyd.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/753\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":754,"href":"http:\/\/xfloyd.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/753\/revisions\/754"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/xfloyd.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=753"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/xfloyd.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=753"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/xfloyd.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=753"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}