filebringer

filebringer

#!/bin/zsh
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# Copyright (C) 2012  Wojciech Siewierski                               #
#                                                                       #
# This program is free software: you can redistribute it and/or modify  #
# it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by  #
# the Free Software Foundation, either version 3 of the License, or     #
# (at your option) any later version.                                   #
#                                                                       #
# This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful,       #
# but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of        #
# MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE.  See the         #
# GNU General Public License for more details.                          #
#                                                                       #
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# along with this program.  If not, see <http://www.gnu.org/licenses/>. #
#########################################################################

#############################################################################
# NAME                                                                      #
#   filebringer - "Bring me this file. NOW!"                                #
#                                                                           #
# SYNOPSIS                                                                  #
#   filebringer -name 'foo*.pdf'                                            #
#                                                                           #
#   DIR=/some/effin/huge/directory filebringer -mmin 10                     #
#                                                                           #
#   [ DIR=search_here... \                                                  #
#     DESTDIR=...and_place_it_there \                                       #
#     CMD=cp \                                                              #
#     VERBOSE=1 ] filebringer <find(1) syntax>                              #
#                                                                           #
# DESCRIPTION                                                               #
#   Runs file(1) on the specified file tree and fetches the matching files. #
#   By default the current directory is both DIR and DESTDIR.               #
#   The fetching method is hardlinking by default (CMD=ln),                 #
#   set the CMD environmental variable to change it.                        #
#############################################################################


DESTDIR="${DESTDIR:-$PWD}"

if [ -n "$DIR" ]; then
    cd "$DIR"
fi

find . $* -exec ${CMD:-ln} ${VERBOSE:+-v} '{}' "$DESTDIR" \;