Hoi,
GNU Parallel is so great I can hardly contain my excitement of finding it.
Thanks to excellent documentation, examples, and videos, my peanut brain has
been able to construct an almost working command.
I have a dir of video files. The goal is to copy the videos from dir A, rename,
and copy to dir B overwriting only if source is newer than destination.
I found a few different ways to do this in parallel. I also experimented with
cp, ditto, and rsync.
I'm using perl for the rename and multiple inputs for parallel. This line works-
echo /Users/ugeofer/Desktop/tutorial/09_09-0321962041.mp4 | perl -pe 'print;
s/9780321962041/9780133432336/' | parallel -N2 ditto {1} {2}
Here's where I need help. I haven't been able to figure out how to specify the
new directory. I've tried-
~/Desktop/{2} and all sorts of variations.
I'm so close. Any help appreciated.
- Eric
