Question

I have a folder with images and I need to copy them elsewhere removing special chars in the progress.
Lets say I have this

Folder1/ImageÑ%1.jpg
Folder1/ImageÑ%1-70x70.jpg
Folder1/ImageÑ%2.jpg
Folder1/ImageÑ%2-70x70.jpg
Folder1/ImageÑ%3.jpg
Folder1/ImageÑ%3-100x100.jpg
Folder1/ImageÑ%4.jpg
Folder1/ImageÑ%4-100x100.jpg

And I want to copy just the files that doesn’t have “-70×70” or “-100×100” in the name to Folder2 and be like this (without any special char):

Folder2/Image1.jpg
Folder2/Image2.jpg
Folder2/Image3.jpg
Folder2/Image4.jpg

I’ve managed to copy the files, but I have no clue how to rename the files (and remove the special chars) in the same step. I think it’s using SED but I can’t figure out how.

find Folder1 -type f -regextype posix-extended \( ! -regex '.+\-[0-9]{2,4}x[0-9]{2,4}\.jpg' \) -print0 |  xargs -0 cp -p --target-directory=Folder2

Thanks!

Answer 1

This maybe works for you:

#!/bin/bash
DIR=/your/Folder1
DEST=/your/Folder2

for f in `ls -1 $DIR | grep .jpg | egrep -v ".+\-[0-9]{2,4}x[0-9]{2,4}\.jpg"`
do
        f=$(basename $f)
        F=$(echo "$f" | sed "s/[^A-Z|a-z|0-9|\.]//g;")
        cp -p "$DIR/$f" "$DEST/$F"
done

You can use MV instead of CP if you needit.

EDITED

This will get only the files you have to copy:

ls -1 $DIR/*.jpg | egrep -v ".+\-[0-9]{2,4}x[0-9]{2,4}\.jpg

basename command get only the file name in order to replace weir characters and prepare to move
sed it’s replacing all character if the aren’t letters and numbers (and a dot for file extension)