{"id":1222,"date":"2015-11-24T11:54:41","date_gmt":"2015-11-24T17:54:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/islascruz.org\/blog\/?p=1222"},"modified":"2016-11-29T17:15:35","modified_gmt":"2016-11-29T23:15:35","slug":"how-to-move-some-files-but-preserve-the-directory-tree","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/islascruz.org\/blog\/2015\/11\/24\/how-to-move-some-files-but-preserve-the-directory-tree\/","title":{"rendered":"How to move some files but preserve the directory tree?"},"content":{"rendered":"

So, I have a bunch of ogg files that I moved to mp3 (I don’t want to start a format\/encoder war, I just did it), I wanted to move the old ogg files, I didn’t delete them because probably I need them in the future. To move the files apart the easiest way could be using find and xargs:<\/p>\n

\n\nfind . -iname "*ogg" -print0 |xargs -0 -I {} mv {} \/dest\/folder\/\n\n<\/pre>\n
The problem with this is that all those ogg files would be in \/dest\/folder\/ all together, and I want to have them each in the corresponding subfolder, I was looking and found that some uses “cp –parents” unfortunately it seems that the cp in OS X does not include that.<\/p>\n
What I ended up doing.<\/h3>\n
If you create a package file (.tar for example), the directories are preserved, so, for me the trick was using tar for that purpose.<\/p>\n
\n\nfind . -name "*ogg" -print0 | xargs -0 tar cvf - |(cd \/dest\/folder\/ ; tar xfp -)\n\n<\/pre>\n
You’ll see all those ogg files in the screen as they are “copied” to the destination folder. later you can remove the files with find again.<\/p>\n
\n\nfind . -iname "*ogg" -delete\n\n<\/pre>\n
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I assume there is a way to remove the files as soon as they have been added to the tar file.<\/p>\n
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So, I have a bunch of ogg files that I moved to mp3 (I don’t want to start a format\/encoder war, I just did it), I wanted to move the old ogg files, I didn’t delete them because probably I need them in the future. To move the files apart the easiest way could be […]<\/p>\n
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