| philipballew | Anyone know java that can help me with an equals method? | 03:38 |
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| Zauberberg | Complete beginner here. I have an external drive with mp3's scattered in an ocean of disorganized directories. I found a command on a website that will supposedly help me copy all mp3 files from the external drive to a folder I specify. The command is find /media/myusername/mydrivename -iname -type f “*.mp3″ | xargs -I ‘{}’ mv {} /mymusicfolder | 05:07 |
| Zauberberg | However, I get this error. "paths must precede expression: f" | 05:08 |
| holstein | i would probably do it by hand just to be sure | 05:08 |
| holstein | you can use the *.mp3 command several times though | 05:08 |
| Zauberberg | According to this site, it should work fine. http://www.cyberciti.biz/tips/howto-linux-unix-find-move-all-mp3-file.html | 05:09 |
| holstein | Zauberberg: i would ask the author of the scritp | 05:10 |
| holstein | script* | 05:10 |
| holstein | http://askubuntu.com/questions/30330/paths-must-precede-expression-error-when-trying-to-find-all-jpg-files-in-the-c seems relevant | 05:10 |
| Zauberberg | It would seem the answer to that person's problem was to use quotations over the "*.jpg*. What I posted above does that. The reason I do not want to do it by hand is because it would take a very long time. One of the appeals of trying Linux for me is the idea that I can supposedly do things more efficiently. | 05:12 |
| holstein | you could ask on twitter https://twitter.com/nixcraft | 05:14 |
| holstein | Zauberberg: can you run the seperate parts, and see where the error is? | 05:15 |
| holstein | Zauberberg: what is the path? maybe you are not using the correct path for /media/home/whatever | 05:16 |
| Zauberberg | I double checked the paths to make sure they were correct. I'm not sure what you mean by running the separate parts. | 05:17 |
| holstein | http://srynot4sale.wordpress.com/2008/07/07/find-paths-must-precede-expression/ shows single dash quotes | 05:19 |
| holstein | i would cd where they are and cp *.mp3 | 05:19 |
| holstein | Zauberberg: this looks more like it http://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/44068/use-a-shell-variable-to-execute-a-comand | 05:21 |
| Zauberberg | I just tried it with single quotes but I got the same error. Let me check that last link. | 05:21 |
| holstein | interpretting the | as a path... id go with that | 05:22 |
| holstein | looks plausible from what i see above | 05:23 |
| Zauberberg | I'm afraid I was not able to understand that page. I will try the Ubuntu manual. | 05:26 |
| holstein | Zauberberg: i would just go to a linux book | 05:26 |
| holstein | you are not trying to do anything ubuntu specific.. should work in any commandline | 05:27 |
| holstein | the way i read that, the pipe gets seen as a path... | 05:27 |
| Zauberberg | I don't have any Linux books. Can you recommend any online Linux guides? | 05:27 |
| holstein | i would start witnthe find man pages and look at the other references for the other commands | 05:28 |
| holstein | Zauberberg: you can use askubuntu | 05:28 |
| holstein | Zauberberg: i would tweet that author i linked and ask | 05:29 |
| Zauberberg | I would but I'm not a twitter user. | 05:29 |
| philipballew | holstein, knows what he is talking about | 05:30 |
| Zauberberg | I didn't know it was a script someone created. I figured it was just basic functionality in Linux to do something like find mp3s on a drive and copy them to folder x. | 05:30 |
| holstein | Or send an email us at vivek@cyberciti.biz | 05:30 |
| Zauberberg | I will need to read up on things more and try doing things like that when I am more experienced. | 05:30 |
| Zauberberg | I searched for the man page and it seems very good. I will definitely give it a read. | 05:30 |
| philipballew | Anyone know java that can help with an equals method? | 05:31 |
| holstein | i might just try and print a list of the *.mp3's by path or whatever and cp them | 05:31 |
| holstein | philipballew: wish i did... | 05:31 |
| philipballew | holstein, wish I did not have to have to know | 05:32 |
| * philipballew knows no other way to word it | 05:32 | |
| holstein | Zauberberg: i might just load up a gui filemanager.. search and start moving htem | 05:34 |
| holstein | them* | 05:34 |
| holstein | something like catfish would find them | 05:34 |
| Zauberberg | I just got it to work. I used: find /media/me/mydrive -name '*.mp3' -exec cp {} /home/music/unsorted \; | 05:38 |
| holstein | yeah.. the "|" was throwing it off in that case | 05:39 |
| Zauberberg | What does "|" usually represent? Wonder why that side had it in there. | 05:39 |
| Zauberberg | site^ | 05:39 |
| holstein | http://linux.byexamples.com/archives/349/how-to-redirect-output-to-a-file-as-well-as-display-it-out/ might help | 05:41 |
| holstein | i use it like "ps aux | grep foo" to find the process foo if its running | 05:42 |
| holstein | http://careerride.com/Linux-pipes.aspx is better i think | 05:43 |
| holstein | holstein@aphrodite:~$ locate *.ogg | tee test.txt | 05:46 |
| holstein | for example... just gave me a list of my ogg files in test.txt | 05:46 |
| Zauberberg | That's really useful. I've only been using Ubuntu for a day, but things like that make it very appealing. | 05:47 |
| holstein | sure... its all open, so the answer is always yes | 05:47 |
| holstein | its just a matter of sorting out how | 05:47 |
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| raub | Does anyone know if the Intel x520-DA2 (chipset 82599ES) works well under ubuntu 12.04LTS? By that I mean out of the box, without needing to install drivers. | 17:59 |
| raub | https://wiki.ubuntu.com/HardwareSupportComponentsWiredNetworkCardsIntel might be a bit dated | 17:59 |
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| Zauberberg | Does anyone know how to disable fast user switching from the top-right system menu in 12.10? Apparently you could do it with dconf editor in earlier versions. I can remove the shutdown/logout/suspend options in dconf editor but not the usernames | 20:50 |
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