I did a variation on this and got it to work.
I made the top level dir 'Dir2'
cd into Dir1 and the 'rsync -va . ../Dir2/
cd into Dir2
find . -type f -name "*.txt" -exec unix2dos "{}" \;
that did it. I didn't put the "" around the {} the first
time and it barfed on the files with spaces in them.
Thanks everybody for all the suggestions.
On Fri, 2007-12-07 at 09:28 +0000, G T Smith wrote:
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> Randal Jarrett wrote:
> > I've already been through these cmds and many more but I have been
> > unable to come
> > up with a combination that will convert the files and then put them in a
> > new structure that
> > has all the same subdirs that the original has.
> >
> > get file, convert file, put file in the same subdir as original but in
> > new structure.
> >
> > I have the new directory structure built. That was easy, find . -type d
> > -exec mkdir -p ../Dir2/{} \;
> > where Dir1 was original and Dir2 is the new structure.
> >
> > I just haven't come up with the right combination to put the files in
> > the proper subdir under Dir2.
> > I'm also having problems with
> >
> >
>
> <snip>
>
> >>
> >> Anyway, here are some of the elements you have to work with:
> >>
> >> - The "find" command
> >> It has an option ("-print0") to print file names with NUL termination
> >> instead of the usual newline termination.
> >>
> >> - The "xargs" command
> >> It has an option ("-0"), a counterpart to find's -print0, that makes
> >> it read file names with NUL termination
> >>
> >> - The "unix2dos" command
> >> This does the basic text file format conversion.
> >>
> >>
>
> IMHO Not really doable as a single command line, though someone will no
> doubt prove me wrong :-) ....
>
> Something like....
>
> find <base directory>/* -type d >scandirs
> while read SCANDIR; do
> do stuff with $SCANDIR
> done < scandirs
>
> as a template for a script may work... If you know little about bash
> scripting it looks like now is the time to learn....
>
> if the directory structure is not too large putting the results of the
> find command in a variable and feeding the variable to a for loop and or
> to xargs may work (but xargs does have some limitations).
>
> This is only a pointer to an approach...
>
> BTW Please think before you place your answer, I am personally not
> particularly religious about the Top Post vs Bottom Post argument...
> (Strikes me as rather like the big-endian vs little-endian war in
> Gullivers Travels) but it is a good idea to try an retain something
> resembling a consistent flow to the history of an argument when
> replying.....
>
> Probably time to put on the asbestos underwear :-)
>
> <snip>
>
>
>
>
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