[digiKam-users] removing orphaned xmp files under Linux

[woenx]

Weird.

Have you tried directly using a virtual console in Control+Alt+F1 and
running the script from there? (Control+alt+F7 to go back to the graphical
interface)



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[Peter Mc Donough]

Am 09.03.2018 um 21:58 schrieb woenx:
> Weird.
>
> Have you tried directly using a virtual console in Control+Alt+F1 and
> running the script from there? (Control+alt+F7 to go back to the graphical
> interface)
>

Doesn't help, even when I completely leave to init 3 and run it as
"peter" from there.

Still the same as in my posting of tonight 20180309 00:42

no shopt and syntax error "("

And if I call just "shopt in a console I get  a list of shopt options,
including

extglob on
nullclob off

Might the "off" be the reason?

Peter

[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@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

Name=$1
bName="$(basename "$Name" .xmp)"
#echo arg count = $#, file "$Name", basename: "$bName"
if [ ! -f "$bName" ]; then
         echo "$Name" exists but "$bName" not ;
         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.

Jürgen

Zitat von Peter Mc Donough <[hidden email]>:

> Hi,
>
> I noticed that there are some orphaned xmp-files in my photo folders.
>
> Does anybody know some command line magic for Linux for at least  
> finding them?
>
> cuPeter

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[Peter Mc Donough]

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@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