Hi there
I have a simple script (untested)
require 'ftools'
Dir.entries( '/Volumes/' ).each |item| do
File.move( item, item.gsub( /\//, '-' ) ) if File.file? item
end
The idea is to remove slashes from file names, I can later extend this to include other characters also. But how the deuce can I make it go in to each directoy to make sure each file is renamed even many subdirectories down?
Many thanks
Gabriel
Alle mercoledì 26 settembre 2007, Gabriel Dragffy ha scritto:
Hi there
I have a simple script (untested)
require 'ftools'
Dir.entries( '/Volumes/' ).each |item| do
File.move( item, item.gsub( /\//, '-' ) ) if File.file? item
endThe idea is to remove slashes from file names, I can later extend
this to include other characters also. But how the deuce can I make
it go in to each directoy to make sure each file is renamed even many
subdirectories down?Many thanks
Gabriel
I think that the Find module is what you need (ri Find).
Stefano
Gabriel Dragffy wrote:
require 'ftools'
Dir.entries( '/Volumes/' ).each |item| do
File.move( item, item.gsub( /\//, '-' ) ) if File.file? item
endThe idea is to remove slashes from file names, I can later extend
this to include other characters also. But how the deuce can I make
it go in to each directoy to make sure each file is renamed even many
subdirectories down?
Use Dir['/Volumes/**/*'] (or even *-* to only get files with a slash in them)
instead of Dir.entries.
HTH,
Sebastian
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Will this operate recursively?
Many thanks
Gabriel
On 26 Sep 2007, at 16:33, Sebastian Hungerecker wrote:
Gabriel Dragffy wrote:
require 'ftools'
Dir.entries( '/Volumes/' ).each |item| do
File.move( item, item.gsub( /\//, '-' ) ) if File.file? item
endThe idea is to remove slashes from file names, I can later extend
this to include other characters also. But how the deuce can I make
it go in to each directoy to make sure each file is renamed even many
subdirectories down?Use Dir['/Volumes/**/*'] (or even *-* to only get files with a slash in them)
instead of Dir.entries.
Gabriel Dragffy ha scritto:
Gabriel Dragffy wrote:
require 'ftools'
Dir.entries( '/Volumes/' ).each |item| do
File.move( item, item.gsub( /\//, '-' ) ) if File.file? item
endThe idea is to remove slashes from file names, I can later extend
this to include other characters also. But how the deuce can I make
it go in to each directoy to make sure each file is renamed even many
subdirectories down?Use Dir['/Volumes/**/*'] (or even *-* to only get files with a slash in them)
instead of Dir.entries.Will this operate recursively?
Many thanks
Gabriel
Yes.
Dir['/Volumes/**/*'] will match the directories recursively.
Bye.
Andrea
On 26 Sep 2007, at 16:33, Sebastian Hungerecker wrote:
Thank you for your help. I have a little trouble getting this script to operate properly and its given me an error I haven't come across before...
Dir['/Volumes/**/*'].each { |file| File.move( file, gsub( /\//, "-") ) if File.file?( file ) }
TypeError: $_ value need to be String (nil given)
from (irb):4:in `gsub'
from (irb):4
from (irb):4:in `each'
from (irb):4
What might this mean?
Many thanks
Gabriel
On 26 Sep 2007, at 19:04, Andrea Fazzi wrote:
Will this operate recursively?
Many thanks
Gabriel
Yes.
Dir['/Volumes/**/*'] will match the directories recursively.
Bye.
Andrea
You're not providing a receiver for the gsub() method. Having said that, though, what it seems like you're trying to do is almost certainly a bad idea. It looks like you're prepared to move all files into the current directory. If that's not what you intended, then it's probably very good that you got an error.
-Rob
Rob Biedenharn http://agileconsultingllc.com
Rob@AgileConsultingLLC.com
On Sep 27, 2007, at 8:37 AM, Gabriel Dragffy wrote:
On 26 Sep 2007, at 19:04, Andrea Fazzi wrote:
Will this operate recursively?
Many thanks
Gabriel
Yes.
Dir['/Volumes/**/*'] will match the directories recursively.
Bye.
AndreaThank you for your help. I have a little trouble getting this script to operate properly and its given me an error I haven't come across before...
Dir['/Volumes/**/*'].each { |file| File.move( file, gsub( /\//, "-") ) if File.file?( file ) }
TypeError: $_ value need to be String (nil given)
from (irb):4:in `gsub'
from (irb):4
from (irb):4:in `each'
from (irb):4What might this mean?
Many thanks
Gabriel
I'm sorry, you are so right. I really can't seem to get the hang of this. You're correct in that it is moving all files in to the current directory. How can I make it so it just renames them in place, and which resource should I be ideally reading to understand this better?
Best regards
Gabriel
On 27 Sep 2007, at 14:14, Rob Biedenharn wrote:
You're not providing a receiver for the gsub() method. Having said that, though, what it seems like you're trying to do is almost certainly a bad idea. It looks like you're prepared to move all files into the current directory. If that's not what you intended, then it's probably very good that you got an error.
-Rob
If you want to rename files having names that meet some pattern, why don't you start with print the names like this (files having "foo" somewhere in their name):
Dir['**/*'].each {|f| puts f if f =~ /foo/ }
but beware that Dir['**/*'] is going to plow through the directory structure and make an array (a big one) of all the file names before the block gets to see any of those names.
Perhaps you'd get some better answers if you post what you're trying to accomplish, the attempt you've made (or what you think should work), and the actual results you see.
Also, note that my example starts from the current directory (which was ~/ in my case). It's always better to get a script like yours working on a small bit of known data (and perhaps be non-destructive) before turning it loose on your entire disk. (In my case, it found many files that were throwaway "foo" files, but also many with "foot", "footnote", "food", and "footer" that were clearly not throwaway files.)
-Rob
Rob Biedenharn http://agileconsultingllc.com
Rob@AgileConsultingLLC.com
On Sep 27, 2007, at 10:55 AM, Gabriel Dragffy wrote:
On 27 Sep 2007, at 14:14, Rob Biedenharn wrote:
You're not providing a receiver for the gsub() method. Having said that, though, what it seems like you're trying to do is almost certainly a bad idea. It looks like you're prepared to move all files into the current directory. If that's not what you intended, then it's probably very good that you got an error.
-Rob
I'm sorry, you are so right. I really can't seem to get the hang of this. You're correct in that it is moving all files in to the current directory. How can I make it so it just renames them in place, and which resource should I be ideally reading to understand this better?
Best regards
Gabriel
Hi Rob
Thanks for your help.
What I am trying to achieve is replace the slashes (/) in file/directory names under a certain directory. So, for example, I want to recursively rename offending files that are under /Volumes, but I don't want them moved from their current directory... just renamed. What's the best way to go about that?
Regards
Gabe
On 27 Sep 2007, at 16:35, Rob Biedenharn wrote:
If you want to rename files having names that meet some pattern, why don't you start with print the names like this (files having "foo" somewhere in their name):
Dir['**/*'].each {|f| puts f if f =~ /foo/ }
but beware that Dir['**/*'] is going to plow through the directory structure and make an array (a big one) of all the file names before the block gets to see any of those names.
Perhaps you'd get some better answers if you post what you're trying to accomplish, the attempt you've made (or what you think should work), and the actual results you see.
Also, note that my example starts from the current directory (which was ~/ in my case). It's always better to get a script like yours working on a small bit of known data (and perhaps be non-destructive) before turning it loose on your entire disk. (In my case, it found many files that were throwaway "foo" files, but also many with "foot", "footnote", "food", and "footer" that were clearly not throwaway files.)
This doesn't make sense. There aren't slashes in the name, those are separating directories along the path to the file.
/Volumes/Macintosh HD/Users/rab/code/ruby/quiz/081-Hash to OpenStruct/another.yml
/Volumes/Macintosh HD/Users/rab/code/ruby/quiz/081-Hash to OpenStruct/hash2ostruct.rb
/Volumes/Macintosh HD/Users/rab/code/ruby/quiz/081-Hash to OpenStruct/openstruct.yml
/Volumes/Macintosh HD/Users/rab/code/ruby/quiz/081-Hash to OpenStruct/recursive.yml
These files have some directories containing spaces in the name, but the name of each file is just the last part (another.yml, hash2ostruct.rb, openstruct.yml, recursive.yml). If I go to my home directory and rename 'code' to be 'source', I haven't changed the names of the files, but I *have* changed the path needed to reach them.
If you really *do* have files with '/' in their names, chances are you need to use a low-level utility to recover from that mess. If you're just seeing in the Mac OS X Finder that there are "slashes" in the name of a file, perhaps you're seeing an artifact of the Mac's filesystem. If you open a Terminal, you'll see that there the file has a ':' in the place that Finder shows you '/'.
Perhaps you can find these files (like I said, see if you find them properly before to operate on them) with Ruby like this:
ruby -e 'puts Dir["**/*:*"]'
But know that there are a great many files that *NEED* to contain ':' created by iChat, AddressBook, Safari, and others. (You might not want to mess with anything under a Library directory 
-Rob
Rob Biedenharn http://agileconsultingllc.com
Rob@AgileConsultingLLC.com
On Sep 28, 2007, at 5:04 AM, Gabriel Dragffy wrote:
On 27 Sep 2007, at 16:35, Rob Biedenharn wrote:
If you want to rename files having names that meet some pattern, why don't you start with print the names like this (files having "foo" somewhere in their name):
Dir['**/*'].each {|f| puts f if f =~ /foo/ }
but beware that Dir['**/*'] is going to plow through the directory structure and make an array (a big one) of all the file names before the block gets to see any of those names.
Perhaps you'd get some better answers if you post what you're trying to accomplish, the attempt you've made (or what you think should work), and the actual results you see.
Also, note that my example starts from the current directory (which was ~/ in my case). It's always better to get a script like yours working on a small bit of known data (and perhaps be non-destructive) before turning it loose on your entire disk. (In my case, it found many files that were throwaway "foo" files, but also many with "foot", "footnote", "food", and "footer" that were clearly not throwaway files.)
Hi Rob
Thanks for your help.
What I am trying to achieve is replace the slashes (/) in file/directory names under a certain directory. So, for example, I want to recursively rename offending files that are under /Volumes, but I don't want them moved from their current directory... just renamed. What's the best way to go about that?
Regards
Gabe
Gabriel Dragffy wrote:
What I am trying to achieve is replace the slashes (/) in file/directory
names under a certain directory. So, for example, I want to recursively
rename offending files that are under /Volumes, but I don't want them
moved from their current directory... just renamed. What's the best way
to go about that?
I guess you could do something like
Dir['startdir/**/'].each { |dirname|
Dir.new(dirname).each{ |file_basename|
#manipulate file_basename => new_name
oldpath = File.join(dirname, file_basename)
newpath = File.join(dirname, new_name)
File.move(oldpath, newpath)
}
}
Note that the outer iterator will only yield you directory names, while
the inner one will only yield file basenames inside those directories.
So you can treat file names, even ones containing slashes on their own,
and then combine the results with their respective directory names.
mortee
PS.: I could not figure out how to create a file with a / in its name in
those few minutes so I could not test if this actually works if you have
such files...
Rob, you are spot on! When I view the files in Finder they have slashes in the name. However, I need to backup these files to a linux files server using Rsync (because rsync won't copy everything but only the changes) but it keeps conking out with errors. If I run cp -rv it fails with errors like:
cp: /Volumes/Cecil/02photography/1997_past/::PANORMANIA: Invalid argument
When I look at the file in Finder it has a name with slashes in it. My immediate thought was to automatically rename all files like this. What would suggest I do?
Best regards
Gabriel
On 28 Sep 2007, at 14:17, Rob Biedenharn wrote:
Hi Rob
Thanks for your help.
What I am trying to achieve is replace the slashes (/) in file/directory names under a certain directory. So, for example, I want to recursively rename offending files that are under /Volumes, but I don't want them moved from their current directory... just renamed. What's the best way to go about that?
Regards
Gabe
This doesn't make sense. There aren't slashes in the name, those are separating directories along the path to the file.
/Volumes/Macintosh HD/Users/rab/code/ruby/quiz/081-Hash to OpenStruct/another.yml
/Volumes/Macintosh HD/Users/rab/code/ruby/quiz/081-Hash to OpenStruct/hash2ostruct.rb
/Volumes/Macintosh HD/Users/rab/code/ruby/quiz/081-Hash to OpenStruct/openstruct.yml
/Volumes/Macintosh HD/Users/rab/code/ruby/quiz/081-Hash to OpenStruct/recursive.ymlThese files have some directories containing spaces in the name, but the name of each file is just the last part (another.yml, hash2ostruct.rb, openstruct.yml, recursive.yml). If I go to my home directory and rename 'code' to be 'source', I haven't changed the names of the files, but I *have* changed the path needed to reach them.
If you really *do* have files with '/' in their names, chances are you need to use a low-level utility to recover from that mess. If you're just seeing in the Mac OS X Finder that there are "slashes" in the name of a file, perhaps you're seeing an artifact of the Mac's filesystem. If you open a Terminal, you'll see that there the file has a ':' in the place that Finder shows you '/'.
Perhaps you can find these files (like I said, see if you find them properly before to operate on them) with Ruby like this:
ruby -e 'puts Dir["**/*:*"]'
But know that there are a great many files that *NEED* to contain ':' created by iChat, AddressBook, Safari, and others. (You might not want to mess with anything under a Library directory
I think that you are running into trouble with rsync's use of a : or two for special syntax to identify a file on a different host.
rsync(1) rsync(1)
NAME
rsync - faster, flexible replacement for rcp
SYNOPSIS
rsync [OPTION]... SRC [SRC]... [USER@]HOST:DEST
rsync [OPTION]... [USER@]HOST:SRC DEST
rsync [OPTION]... SRC [SRC]... DEST
rsync [OPTION]... [USER@]HOST::SRC [DEST]
rsync [OPTION]... SRC [SRC]... [USER@]HOST::DEST
rsync [OPTION]... rsync://[USER@]HOST[:PORT]/SRC [DEST]
rsync [OPTION]... SRC [SRC]... rsync://[USER@]HOST[:PORT]/DEST
You may have to quote the file name of supply an explicit host portion even if it matches the default. You might alternatively create an incremental tar archive of the changes and then back up the tar file to the linux box. (...and either way it's not really a Ruby problem.)
-Rob
Rob Biedenharn http://agileconsultingllc.com
Rob@AgileConsultingLLC.com
On Sep 28, 2007, at 2:42 PM, Gabriel Dragffy wrote:
On 28 Sep 2007, at 14:17, Rob Biedenharn wrote:
Hi Rob
Thanks for your help.
What I am trying to achieve is replace the slashes (/) in file/directory names under a certain directory. So, for example, I want to recursively rename offending files that are under /Volumes, but I don't want them moved from their current directory... just renamed. What's the best way to go about that?
Regards
Gabe
This doesn't make sense. There aren't slashes in the name, those are separating directories along the path to the file.
/Volumes/Macintosh HD/Users/rab/code/ruby/quiz/081-Hash to OpenStruct/another.yml
/Volumes/Macintosh HD/Users/rab/code/ruby/quiz/081-Hash to OpenStruct/hash2ostruct.rb
/Volumes/Macintosh HD/Users/rab/code/ruby/quiz/081-Hash to OpenStruct/openstruct.yml
/Volumes/Macintosh HD/Users/rab/code/ruby/quiz/081-Hash to OpenStruct/recursive.ymlThese files have some directories containing spaces in the name, but the name of each file is just the last part (another.yml, hash2ostruct.rb, openstruct.yml, recursive.yml). If I go to my home directory and rename 'code' to be 'source', I haven't changed the names of the files, but I *have* changed the path needed to reach them.
If you really *do* have files with '/' in their names, chances are you need to use a low-level utility to recover from that mess. If you're just seeing in the Mac OS X Finder that there are "slashes" in the name of a file, perhaps you're seeing an artifact of the Mac's filesystem. If you open a Terminal, you'll see that there the file has a ':' in the place that Finder shows you '/'.
Perhaps you can find these files (like I said, see if you find them properly before to operate on them) with Ruby like this:
ruby -e 'puts Dir["**/*:*"]'
But know that there are a great many files that *NEED* to contain ':' created by iChat, AddressBook, Safari, and others. (You might not want to mess with anything under a Library directoryRob, you are spot on! When I view the files in Finder they have slashes in the name. However, I need to backup these files to a linux files server using Rsync (because rsync won't copy everything but only the changes) but it keeps conking out with errors. If I run cp -rv it fails with errors like:
cp: /Volumes/Cecil/02photography/1997_past/::PANORMANIA: Invalid argument
When I look at the file in Finder it has a name with slashes in it. My immediate thought was to automatically rename all files like this. What would suggest I do?Best regards
Gabriel