I am very happy to have found this place.
I have an external drive I use for my media and as I am switching to Kodi as my media player, there are some changes I need to make.
The drive has many many directories and in each directory there is an image file to accompany said media file. Example:
filename1.mp3
filename1.jpg
Of course the filename varies as does the amount of files, though each file does have a respective image. I need to recursively sweep the drive and have it make copies of whatever the jpg and the final result should be something like this:
filename1.mp3
filename1.jpg
filename1-poster.jpg
poster.jpg
What would be the best way to accomplish this? It's thousands of files so its really beyond the scope of doing this manually.
I do certainly appreciate any assistance or insight anybody can provide to accomplish this monumental task.
Best regards,
Peter
A simple solution (unix shell, e.g. ksh, bash) and not necessarily safe against spaces in file names would be:
for file in $(find . -name '*.mp3') ; do
base="${file%%.mp3}"
cp "$base.jpg" "$base-poster.jpg"
cp "$base.jpg" "$(dirname $base)/poster.jpg"
done
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I need something that can copy a specified file any and everywhere on my drive (or computer) where that file already exists; i.e. update a file. I tried to search this site, in case I'm not the first, and found this:
CMD command line: copy file to multiple locations at the same time
But not quite the same.
Example:
Say I have a file called CurrentList.txt, and I have copies of it all over my hard drive. But then I change it and I want all the copies to update. So I want to copy the newer one over all the others. It could 'copy if newer', but generally I know it's newer, so it could also just find every instance and copy over it.
I was originally going to use some kind of .bat file that would have to iterate over every folder seeking the file in question, but my batch file programming is limited/rusty. Then I looked to see if xcopy could do it, but I don't think so...
For how I will use it most, I generally know where those files are going to be, so it actually might be as good or better if I could specify it to (using example), "copy CurrentList.txt, overwriting all other copies wherever found in the C:\Lists folder and all subfolders".
I would really like to be able to have it in a context menu, so I could (from a file explorer) right click on a file or selected files and choose the option to distribute it.
Thanks in advance for any ideas.
Use the "replace" command...
replace CurrentList.txt C:\Lists /s
I need to check the files of a versioned system. To do that, I need to write a batcha program so to compare the contents of several folders containing the repositories.
So, my question is: how can I "read" the names of all the subfolders inside a folder, so to use these names later to find subfolders having the same names in a different repositories?
I suppose I may use DIR to print on the screen a list of these names but I don't know how to write it on a text file and then read it. Moreover, I should edit this kind of list, anyway.
Any suggestions or new ideas to solve this problem?
I thank gratefully who ever will answer.
it seems that you can get the subfolders using batch file from perl as follows:
system("start C:\\Temp\\mybatchfile.bat");
or you might try to pass your command suggested by #Stephan straight to system and try to handle what it is returned.
First off I want to say that
-I didnt ever create a batch file yet, but I am really willing to learn
-I am not even sure if what i want to do is possible with a batch file
What i want to do is the following:
I want to replace a number of files of one file type in a folder each with one and the same file of another file type. In doing this, i want the "replaced" files to keep their original name except for the "replacer" file's extension. I am not talking about file conversion, this is about replacing several different files each with one and the same file, so each of them will look the same later, just with different names and the file extension of the "replacer" file. All of the files inside the folder are to be treated this way, there are no exceptions.
So it looks something like this:
Folder 1 Folder 2
10000000.tga------------->10000000.png (looks like replacer.png)
10000001.tga------------->10000001.png (looks like replacer.png)
10000011.tga------------->10000011.png (looks like replacer.png)
I really hope that my description is sufficiently precise, if not so, I am of course willing to give any information needed. I found parts of what i need (e.g. a loop for files in a folder, an order to replace one file with another file) but I am unsure of how to combine them at all, let alone to achieve what I actually wanted to do.
Any help is greatly appreciated :)
for %%i in (*.tga) do (
copy "replacer.png" "%%~ni.png"
del "%%i"
)
see for /? for details about the %%~.. syntax
So I have a very big folder full of more folders which hold files that all have their regular extension, but then with ,v after it (like .xml,v)
Is there a quick way/program to make it go through all of the folders and when it finds a ,v it'll remove the ,v from it?
Thanks
EDIT: I am running Windows 7 (64-bit). Also please remember than I am an idiot :P
Use find to list the files ending ,v. Pipe the output to a shell loop that renames the files.
${f%%,v} matches the file name without the ,v suffix.
find . -name \*,v | while read f; do mv $f ${f%%,v} ;done
Not clear, Where you have the files? (In your computer / on a server).
What is the platform (Windows / Linux) ...
There are multiple ways to solve it based on scenario (like a tiny batch file can do it in a flash if the folder is in your local computer with windows platform) ...
I am searching for a solution to delete all files from my pendrive using a C program. I don't want the code to detect the pendrive as that's not a concern right now. I would appreciate any links that could help me out on this.
Note: I am working on Windows 7 64-bit and I want to delete the entire contents from my pendrive, which contains .exes and .dlls.
Thanks and Regards,
Radix
The non-hack correct way to do this, is via the Virtual Disk Service.
If you can't use something like rm -rf F:\* and you really do need to implement it yourself in C then I think I'd probably opt for a recursive solution based on FindFirstFile and FindNextFile. These are the native Windows APIs for enumerating directories. Not remotely portable, but it doesn't seem that's a requirement.
Basically the idea is that you write a function, EmptyDir(), say, whose job it is to delete the contents of a directory. The function uses FindFirstFile and FindNextFile to walk the contents of the directory. When a file is encountered it is deleted. When a directory is encountered, EmptyDir() is called recursively. The last job of EmptyDir(), before it returns, is to delete the now empty directory.