vikler
April 23rd, 2014, 11:47 AM
Hi everyone!
I need a bit of help with writing a bash script.
So, the thing is, I have a directory full of .jpg files that are being copied from another directory with the help of exiftool (only jpg files that have certain Caption-Abstract tag are being copied).
However, sometimes photos in "original" directory are incomplete, because they are still being uploaded on the server. Exiftool has no problem reading meta data in incomplete files and therefore it transfers these half-finished images to my "selected photos" directory.
What I basically need is a script that will do following:
1) Write a list of .jpg files in "selected photos" directory
2) For each file listed do these steps:
- compare its size in "selected" and "original" folders
- if the photo in the "selected" directory is smaller in size than the same filename in the "original" directory, it means the photo was copied incomplete. So I need to replace this corrupted file with larger size file from "original" directory (but leave not mv it from the original directory, but copy, because original directory should have all photos saved)
I thought about something like that:
ls * > file
for fn in `cat file`; do
<compare sizes of ./$fn and /home/original/$fn>
<if sized are different> rm $fn ; cd /home/original ; cp $fn /home/selected; cd /home/selected ;
done
Don't really know how to do this whole size compare step. Maybe you have a better solution in mind?
Well any help will be appreciated. Thanks in advance!
I need a bit of help with writing a bash script.
So, the thing is, I have a directory full of .jpg files that are being copied from another directory with the help of exiftool (only jpg files that have certain Caption-Abstract tag are being copied).
However, sometimes photos in "original" directory are incomplete, because they are still being uploaded on the server. Exiftool has no problem reading meta data in incomplete files and therefore it transfers these half-finished images to my "selected photos" directory.
What I basically need is a script that will do following:
1) Write a list of .jpg files in "selected photos" directory
2) For each file listed do these steps:
- compare its size in "selected" and "original" folders
- if the photo in the "selected" directory is smaller in size than the same filename in the "original" directory, it means the photo was copied incomplete. So I need to replace this corrupted file with larger size file from "original" directory (but leave not mv it from the original directory, but copy, because original directory should have all photos saved)
I thought about something like that:
ls * > file
for fn in `cat file`; do
<compare sizes of ./$fn and /home/original/$fn>
<if sized are different> rm $fn ; cd /home/original ; cp $fn /home/selected; cd /home/selected ;
done
Don't really know how to do this whole size compare step. Maybe you have a better solution in mind?
Well any help will be appreciated. Thanks in advance!