The World of a Penguin

gvfsfind can now be found on freshmeat.net . I have also published my bzr/bazaar - repository .

I use the find command line utility nearly every day. It is amazing to manipulate large directory hierarchy with files. Unfortunately, I have missed the possibility to do like this: find ftp://ftp.sunet.se/ -type f -exec gnomevfs-copy {} . \; The example above is of course stupid since it will take for ever and fill my hard drive but you get the idea. I need the similar functionality to copy video-files from my PVR, Kiss DP-558, to my Ubuntu server. This weekend I decided to solve the problem, so I created gvfsfind . The prefix gvfs since it is based on gnome-vfs. The tool has a help that I hope can get you to start using it. Just start it with the flag -h. This example prints all directories on the ftp-site: gvfsfind.py ftp://video.foo.org --type d --print To copy all files ending with .vob from the host skipper to the local host: gvfsfind.py ssh://skipper/srv/movie --type f --name ".*\.vob" --exec "gnomevfs-copy %u ." Create all directories on the remote host ski...