On Thu, 17 May 2012 23:36:43 -0700, Brian Flaherty wrote: > Good evening,
Same to you but please, don't post html formatted messages :-) > I have moved away from iTunes back to organizing my own music. The main > music directory contains several kinds of files: ogg, mp3, flac, aiff. I > want to create a subdirectory that only contains links (I assume soft.) > to the directories containing only ogg and mp3 files. For example, if > this was my base directory: > > music/ artist1/ album1/ogg-songs > / artist1/ album2/flac-songs > ... etc. > > I'd like something like this: > > link-dest.dir/artist1(link)/ album1/ ogg > > without a link to the album2 directory because it contains flac files. So you want to remove the "/music/artist1/album1/ogg-songs" folder but keep "/music/artist1/album2/flac-songs"? > I think I know how to walk through and link to each directory, but not > sure how to then go through and remove links to directories with the > file type I don't want. > > Any suggestions or thoughts welcome. Thank you. If I got it right, you have something like this: sm01@stt008:~/Desktop$ ls -la music/artist1/*/* music/artist1/album1/ogg-songs: total 0 drwxr-xr-x 2 sm01 sm01 104 may 18 22:31 . drwxr-xr-x 3 sm01 sm01 80 may 18 22:29 .. -rw-r--r-- 1 sm01 sm01 0 may 18 22:31 test2.ogg -rw-r--r-- 1 sm01 sm01 0 may 18 22:31 test.ogg music/artist1/album2/flac-songs: total 0 drwxr-xr-x 2 sm01 sm01 112 may 18 22:32 . drwxr-xr-x 3 sm01 sm01 80 may 18 22:29 .. -rw-r--r-- 1 sm01 sm01 0 may 18 22:32 test2.flac -rw-r--r-- 1 sm01 sm01 0 may 18 22:32 test.flac To get/filter the ogg songs (or the ogg folder) you can: sm01@stt008:~/Desktop$ ls -la music/artist1/*/ | grep ogg drwxr-xr-x 2 sm01 sm01 104 may 18 22:31 ogg-songs or: sm01@stt008:~/Desktop$ ls -la music/artist1/*/* | grep .ogg music/artist1/album1/ogg-songs: -rw-r--r-- 1 sm01 sm01 0 may 18 22:31 test2.ogg -rw-r--r-- 1 sm01 sm01 0 may 18 22:31 test.ogg This is a simple approach. For a script, if you want to delete files/folders, use the "file" command instead, it's safer. Greetings, -- Camaleón -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/jp6btu$jg9$1...@dough.gmane.org
