The following commands will connect FLAC files that contain the phrase "Singing" and "sing-songy" in the file name and copy them into the current directory.
find ~/Dropbox/TBTL -type f -name '*Singing *.flac' -exec cp "{}" . \;
find ~/Dropbox/TBTL -type f -name '*sing-songy*.flac' -exec cp "{}" . \;
To generate a text file containing a list of collected files, run:
ls -1 > _files.txt
One way to randomize the list of files is to use the sort
command with the random -R
flag.
sort -R < _files.txt > _files_randomized.txt
In case sort
does not produce a properly randomized list, use the shuf
tool that is included in GNU coreutils (available through Homebrew by running brew install coreutils
):
shuf _files.txt > _files_randomized_shuf.txt