List of files that exclude some files
Hi All,
I wanted to see if there was an easy way to use say the find command in linux to build a list of files that I can process with Imagemagick
Reason is I am periodically searching a folder e.g. /foo/* for jpg files that have not been processed. A processed file will have an accompanying with the same filename but different extension. This file denotes that the jpg was previously processed. I want to then ignore this file the next time I process the folder. So, I would like to be able to:
List all jpg files that do not have an accompanying file. E.g. in a folder, their contains files, a.jpg, b.jpg, c.jpg, d.jpg, d.mod. I would like a list of files in that folder that would exclude the d.jpg file, leaving a.jpg, b.jpg, c.jpg.
Want to be able to process a folder recursively.
Either throw all the files to a list file, to then process through with a loop or possibly execute the command inline with the search. E.g. the command I can run to process and replace the existing jpg file is mogrify quality 50 /path/to/foo.jpg > /path/to/foo.compressed
Any help would be greatly appreciated.
I wanted to see if there was an easy way to use say the find command in linux to build a list of files that I can process with Imagemagick
Reason is I am periodically searching a folder e.g. /foo/* for jpg files that have not been processed. A processed file will have an accompanying with the same filename but different extension. This file denotes that the jpg was previously processed. I want to then ignore this file the next time I process the folder. So, I would like to be able to:
List all jpg files that do not have an accompanying file. E.g. in a folder, their contains files, a.jpg, b.jpg, c.jpg, d.jpg, d.mod. I would like a list of files in that folder that would exclude the d.jpg file, leaving a.jpg, b.jpg, c.jpg.
Want to be able to process a folder recursively.
Either throw all the files to a list file, to then process through with a loop or possibly execute the command inline with the search. E.g. the command I can run to process and replace the existing jpg file is mogrify quality 50 /path/to/foo.jpg > /path/to/foo.compressed
Any help would be greatly appreciated.
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perl -le '@mod{map/([^.]+)/,<*.mod>
find . -name '*.jpg' \! -exec bash -c 'test -f `expr substr "$0" 1 \( length "$0" - 4 \)`.mod' {} \; -print
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Hi ghostdog74
That works great, got it working recursively. Without understanding a whole lot about how the above works, could you perhaps explain it a little? I wanted to do the same thing with now files that have the .mpeg extension, also placing a .mod file when its processed. I could not get it to work with a .mod extension, made it work with .modv by replacing the first for loop with for i in *.[mm][op][ed][gv]
That works great, got it working recursively. Without understanding a whole lot about how the above works, could you perhaps explain it a little? I wanted to do the same thing with now files that have the .mpeg extension, also placing a .mod file when its processed. I could not get it to work with a .mod extension, made it work with .modv by replacing the first for loop with for i in *.[mm][op][ed][gv]
hi
i am not very good at explanation, however, perhaps you can try this on your terminal
# i=test.jpg
# echo ${i%%.*}
test
for more details see http://tldp.org/LDP/abs/html/parameter-substitution.html
i am sure you know what a for loop is, so i will skip that.
the if statements checks for existence of a jpg as well as a mod file. If they exists, that means they are already processed, so continue the for loop to read in the next file.
i am not very good at explanation, however, perhaps you can try this on your terminal
# i=test.jpg
# echo ${i%%.*}
test
for more details see http://tldp.org/LDP/abs/html/parameter-substitution.html
i am sure you know what a for loop is, so i will skip that.
the if statements checks for existence of a jpg as well as a mod file. If they exists, that means they are already processed, so continue the for loop to read in the next file.
ASKER
Thanks ghostdog74. I figured out how your code was working, and made some adjustments. The key part that I got from your code was "if [ -f <filename> -a -f <filename>.mod ]". I did not think to do it this way and I did not know about the -a option. Thanks again.