Question

I am editing an app where they are halving the frame rate on 12,000 files of a 360 view because the file is too large. I have tried things listed in other threads but get
“bash: syntax error near unexpected token "'
"bash: syntax error near unexpected token(‘

e.g. for %F in (*1.jpg *3.jpg *5.jpg *7.jpg *9.jpg) do move “%%F” “temp\”

or

for /f “eol=: delims=” %F in (‘dir /b /a-d *.jpg^|findstr /irc:”[13579].jpg$”‘) do move “%F” “temp”

Anyone know the fix for that? There are 25 subfolders, ideally I’d like to just move the files to another directory with the same directory structure so I can easily recombine them if they change their mind.

Answer 1

The commands you are trying do not seem to be bash syntax – they look more like Windows command shell stuff.

Try this instead:

mv -i */*[13579].jpg temp/.

mv -i will ask you to confirm if you attempt to overwrite a file (if two of the subdirectories have files with the same name). */*[13579].jpg means all files in any subdirectory that end with an odd digit followed by “.jpg”, and temp/. is the destination directory.