Copy a file to every directory (deepest level) of a directorytree

[auti]

Hello everybody,

I'm pretty new here. I do not have a lot of skills on Linux or on scripting. So I hope that someone can help me on the following topic:

I try to copy a generic cover.jpg file into every album directory, which does not already contains a file named "cover.jpg". The directorytree looks like as follows:

/audio/flac/rock/Bruce_Springsteen/Darkness_On_The_Edge_Of_Town/
/audio/flac/rock/Bruce_Springsteen/The_Ghost_Of_Tom_Joad/
/audio/flac/rock/Huey_Lewis_And_The_News/Sports/
/audio/flac/blues/Gary_Moore/Still_Got_The_Blues/
.
.
.
and so forth

The most of this album directories (i.e "/audio/flac/blues/Gary_Moore/Still_Got_The_Blues/") contains a file called cover.jpg, but not every one. So I try to copy a generic cover.jpg file into these album directories. But not into the artist directory (i.e "/audio/flac/blues/Gary_Moore/") or in any other directories up in the tree. The result must be, that every album directory contains such a cover.jpg file.

Since I have about 3000 albums in the tree, it is almost impossible to do this by hand. So, I'm looking for a shell or perl script which is able to automate this for me. Does someone has a good starting point for me?

Many thanks

[i92guboj]

Hello everybody,

I'm pretty new here. I do not have a lot of skills on Linux or on scripting. So I hope that someone can help me on the following topic:

I try to copy a generic cover.jpg file into every album directory, which does not already contains a file named "cover.jpg". The directorytree looks like as follows:



The most of this album directories (i.e "/audio/flac/blues/Gary_Moore/Still_Got_The_Blues/") contains a file called cover.jpg, but not every one. So I try to copy a generic cover.jpg file into these album directories. But not into the artist directory (i.e "/audio/flac/blues/Gary_Moore/") or in any other directories up in the tree. The result must be, that every album directory contains such a cover.jpg file.

Wellcome.

Assuming that ALL the dirs are in the form artist/album, you can do so easily with sometihng like this:

cd /my/music/; for i in */*; do if [ -d "$i" ]; then if [ ! -f "$i/cover.jpg" ]; echo cp /path/to/cover.jpg "$i"; fi; fi; done

If what you see is what you want, then remove the "echo" and it will be done. I hope that that helps.

[auti]

i92guboj,

first of all, many thanks for the fast reaction and the answer to my question.

Well now I have adapted the commands to my environment and tried to get the expected result. But unfortunately I always get an unexpected return from the shell. Here the command and the error:

bash-3.2# cd /volume1/AUDIOSTORE/RAWLib/Alternative/; for i in */*; do if [ -d "$i" ]; then if [ ! -f "$i/cover.jpg" ]; echo cp /volume1/AUDIOSTORE/cover.jpg "$i"; fi; fi; done
bash: syntax error near unexpected token `fi'

As you assumed, all dirs are in the form artist/album.

I was thinking, that after the second 'if' a 'then' is missing, but this does not resolve the problem either. Any ideas what I made wrong?

[i92guboj]

Yep, oops. Sorry. I posted that in a hurry without checking it. I forgot the second "then".

cd /volume1/AUDIOSTORE/RAWLib/Alternative/; for i in */*; do if [ -d "$i" ]; then if [ ! -f "$i/cover.jpg" ]; then echo cp /volume1/AUDIOSTORE/cover.jpg "$i"; fi; fi; done

[auti]

Ok I resolved the problem. It seems to be working correctly now with the following little script:

# /bin/bash
cd /volume1/AUDIOSTORE/RAWLib
for i in */*/*
do
if [ -d "$i" ]; then
if [ ! -f "$i/cover.jpg" ]; then
cp /volume1/AUDIOSTORE/cover.jpg "$i"
echo ""
echo "cover.jpg copied to $i"
echo ""
else
echo "=> cover.jpg found in $i -> no action required!"
fi
fi
done

the problem was the missing 'then' after the second 'if'

In the previous run I haven't realized, that in the '/volume1/AUDIOSTORE/RAWLib/Alternative/' directory all artist/albums already had a cover.jpg file. So it works fine now, thanks to i92guboj