Cfrtjryk

I'm trying to replace files that match a particular pattern* on CentOS, but it is not working.

I initially wrote:

cp example.com/(*)/orm-mysql/build/conf/(*)-conf.live.php example_dev.com/$1/orm-mysql/build/conf/$1-conf.live.php

I want to replace the files in the example_dev.com directory with the files of the same name in example.com.

*The pattern is example.com/ then anything until /orm-mysql/build/conf/ then a file prefixed with the first wildcarded value and ending in -conf.live.php.

I tried using find with exec:

find /var/www/html/example.com -name '*/orm-mysql/build/conf/*-conf.live.php' -exec echo {} ;

but it threw an error:

find: warning: Unix filenames usually don't contain slashes (though pathnames do). That means that '-name ‘*/orm-mysql/build/conf/*-conf.live.php’' will probably evaluate to false all the time on this system. You might find the '-wholename' test more useful, or perhaps '-samefile'. Alternatively, if you are using GNU grep, you could use 'find ... -print0 | grep -FzZ ‘*/orm-mysql/build/conf/*-conf.live.php’'

Which I think is because -name is for a file, not a path.

How can I accomplish this, is there an easier way than writing a shell script?

Some examples:

/var/www/html/example.com/video/orm-mysql/build/conf/video-conf.live.php

/var/www/html/example.com/images/orm-mysql/build/conf/images-conf.live.php

/var/www/html/example.com/audio/orm-mysql/build/conf/audio-conf.live.php

and they would replace:

/var/www/html/example_dev.com/video/orm-mysql/build/conf/video-conf.live.php

/var/www/html/example_dev.com/images/orm-mysql/build/conf/images-conf.live.php

/var/www/html/example_dev.com/audio/orm-mysql/build/conf/audio-conf.live.php

I would actually do this with a shell loop:

for dir in example.com/*; do

    prefix=${dir##*/}

    cp "$dir"/orm-mysql/build/conf/"$prefix"-conf.live.php 

        example_dev.com/"$prefix"/orm-mysql/build/conf/$1-conf.live.php

done

That will complain if the target directory doesn't exist, but will work as expected if it does. If you want to avoid the complaints, use this:

for dir in example.com/*; do

    prefix=${dir##*/}

    target=example_dev.com/"$prefix"/orm-mysql/build/conf/

    if [ -d "$target" ]; then

        cp "$dir"/orm-mysql/build/conf/"$prefix"-conf.live.php "$target"

    fi

done