Looping through subdirectories

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I need to go through subdirectories of a directory /home/userName/ and find the files whose names begin with SY101 and their extension is .csv and transfer those files to another server. My question is how do I loop through subdirectories and keep looking for the files?

score 2 · Accepted Answer · answered Sep 16 '10 at 21:20

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You could do several things, this is probably the most efficient, but I dont know anything about the size of your files and your link between servers, but let me try:

find /home/userName/ -name 'SY101*.csv' | \
xargs tar cvfz - | ssh hostname 'tar xzf -'

This is going to copy the files to your home on the other server.

Please note the full path will be transfered.

answered Sep 16 '10 at 21:20

Istvan

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What do you mean by full path will be transferred? – yogsma Sep 16 '10 at 21:34
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I would recommend the `-print0` option for `find` and the `-0` option for `xargs` just in case any filenames have spaces in them. – Dennis Williamson Sep 16 '10 at 22:34

score 2 · Answer 2 · answered Sep 16 '10 at 22:34

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Something like this might work for you:

rsync --recursive --include='SY101*.csv' --include='*/' --exclude='*' /home/userName/ username@hostname:destdir

This will reproduce the directory hierarchy of the source on the destination.

answered Sep 16 '10 at 22:34

Dennis Williamson

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