wanting to copy music from an iPod. Certain utilities can do this, but
how to do this via terminal?
Found a method stating this:
mkdir ~/Desktop/frompod
find /Volumes/tony/iPod_Control/Music/ -name "." -exec cp {}
~/Desktop/fromipod\;
but after creating the dir (frompod); the second command generates
find: -exec: no terminating ";"
so then trying :
find /Volumes/TONY/iPod_Control/Music/ -name "." -exec cp {}
~/Desktop/frompod\
generates a line:
>
but nothing further happens.
what does the (>) indicate? (I assume a process initiated).
There is no prompt (%), and although It does not appear to be do
anything, trying to do a cd after this:
> cd ~/desktop/frompod
returns
find: -exec: no terminating ";"
suggests a process started but it does not seem to be getting getting
anywhere.
an alternate is to use ditto
ditto /Volumes/[iPod'sNAME]/iPod_Control/Music/ ~/Desktop/AAA/
the folders are copied, and can be seen while the process is being
executed, but then they become invisible. The issue is then how to make
all the contents of an invisible folder, visible. All invisibles can be
made visible/invisible by using;
defaults write com.apple.finder AppleShowAllFiles TRUE
defaults write com.apple.finder AppleShowAllFiles FALSE
and the copied music can be moved out of the AAA folder, but the copied
music reverts to invisible, once the defaults is reset
File Sherriff can achieve the result - change visibility of all contents
of a selected directory, but how to do this in terminal? I can change
individual visibility using mv /AAA /.AAA format, but how to apply this
to all contents?
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