Finding a folder without specific file?

[Valery_Kondakoff]

is it possible to find a directory, which does not contain a specific file?

for example I want to search a couple of subdirectories in c:\mp3 to find which of them do not have cover.jp*g?

thank you!

[Stitscher]

Hello!

Maybe

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c:\mp3\*.*|cover.jpg |cover.jpeg

works.

But I am not quite sure at the moment.

Stitscher

[Valery_Kondakoff]

Unfortunately this does not work. Your code finds all directories (containing any file) and all the files (except the cover.jp*g).

[Stitscher]

You can press F1 in the search dialog.
Maybe the help can give you a hint.

I am at work at the moment, and can not test.

Stitscher

[Stitscher]

Search dialog-->tab plugins--->enable "Search in plugins"

Plugin - tc
Property - fullname
OP - !Contains
Value - cover.jpg

Stitscher

[Valery_Kondakoff]

Thank you for helping me, but this finds all the files and folders except cover.jpg. (Which fullname does not contyain cover.jpg).

[ghisler(Author)]

No, to my knowledge this isn't possible, except by writing a custom content plugin.

[Valery_Kondakoff]

There is what I'm doing righ now.

1) Searching for all cover.jp*g files in c:\MP3\ and feeding results to listbox (where is my Virtual Panel, btw? )

2) Selecting all results and saving the selection to file

3) Manually editing the selection file (in GVIM) removing the 'cover.jp*g' part. So, the string 'C:\MP3\CRASH TEST DUMMIES\1993 - GOD SHUFFLED HIS FEET\cover.jpeg' becomes ''C:\MP3\CRASH TEST DUMMIES\1993 - GOD SHUFFLED HIS FEET\'

4) Searching for all folders in c:\MP3\ and feeding results to listbox

5) Loading the selection from a file and inverting the selection. Now I have all folders without 'cover.jp*g' selected.

If anybody knows an easier way of performing this task?

[StickyNomad]

2Valery_Kondakoff

where is my Virtual Panel, btw?

If I get you right, you may try to hold down SHIFT while pressing 'feed to listbox'. This will open the search results in a new tab.

[Lev]

Hi, Valery, I hope you can read Russian.
Look here. There is a script highlighting directories not containing files with a defined extension. I think it can be easily chanded according to your task.

[fredvej]

You need a decent command shell like Bash

Bash is available on Windows too, just install Cygwin

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find /cygdrive/c/MP3 -type d | while read DIR
do
  if [ ! -r "$DIR/cover.jp*g" ]
  then
    echo "$DIR/cover.jp*g not found or not readable"
  fi
done

[Lefteous]

2Valery_Kondakoff
Some time ago I added a field named "Content" to my content plug-in "Directory". It's intended to display the files contained in a directory in a tooltip. This field cannot be used in the search in a meaningful way as its length is quite limited. I'm thinking adding another field with support for the search function. Are you interested?

[fenix_productions]

2Lefteous
I am interested too.

[Valery_Kondakoff]

+1

[abraham]

yes please!