[digiKam-users] removing orphaned xmp files under Linux
Peter Mc Donough
mcd-mail-lists at gmx.net
Tue Mar 13 23:46:27 GMT 2018
Am 11.03.2018 um 14:26 schrieb Jürgen Blumenschein:
> Try this short script with the find command (But please, use it at your
> own risk.):
>
> find [searchpath] -name "*.xmp" -execdir
> [path-to-script]/orphaned-xmp.sh "{}" \;
>
> Skript:
> [juergen at tuxedo ~]$ cat ~/bin/orphaned-xmp.sh
> #!/bin/bash
> if [ $# -ne 1 ]; then
> echo $0 entfernt verwaiste xmp-Dateien: nur ein Dateiname als
> Argument ist erlaubt ;
> echo $0 deletes orphaned xmp-files: only one filename as
> argument ;
> exit ;
> fi
# temporary folder
mkdir -p ~/temp/xmp_orphaned/
> Name=$1
> bName="$(basename "$Name" .xmp)"
> #echo arg count = $#, file "$Name", basename: "$bName"
> if [ ! -f "$bName" ]; then
> echo "$Name" exists but "$bName" not ;
# cp -in --verbose "$Name" ~/temp/xmp_orphaned/;
# mv -i --verbose "$Name" ~/temp/xmp_orphaned/;
> rm --interactive --verbose "$Name";
> #else
> # echo "$Name" is not orhaned ;
> fi
>
> Each file has to be confirmes. If you don't want this delete
> "--interactive" in the script source.
Tested, it works. I expected lots of xmp-files but found just twelve
orphaned ones.
A modification: I replaced in the script the "rm" first with "cp" and
then with "mv" to a temp-folder, one never knows.
Thanks
Peter
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