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   From: java@evij.com.invalid   
      
   As some here may recall, I'm in the midst of several years' work   
   scanning family documents, post-processing them, and then releasing them   
   either to the general public for generations sufficiently removed from   
   living people, or else just back to the source branch of the family.   
   Currently there are nearly 15,000 original documents with equal numbers   
   of post-processed versions arranged as below, but around 7,000 of them   
   completed in previous stages already have final documents, so there are   
   around 8,000 newly added documents left to do.  What I need to do is use   
   a program, feh seems a likely choice, to work through those documents   
   that don't yet have a final version, choose one from five possible   
   versions described below, copy it to its corresponding final directory,   
   and move on to the next.   
      
   The documents are arranged as follows:   
      
   Family History   
   	/_all/1o/subs	Original scans   
   	/_all/2n/subs	Normalised versions of the originals   
   	/_all/3t/subs	Textcleaned versions ditto   
   	/_all/4nt/subs	Normalised then textcleaned versions ditto   
   	/_all/5tn/subs	Textcleaned then normalised versions ditto   
   	/subs		Final docs chosen from the best of the above   
      
   Example for one particular subdirectory:   
      
   Family History/_all/1o/Alston   
   Family History/_all/2n/Alston   
   Family History/_all/3t/Alston   
   Family History/_all/4nt/Alston   
   Family History/_all/5tn/Alston   
   Family History/Alston   
      
   I've tried the following command line for feh (sorry can't help any line   
   wrap):   
      
   user@computer:~# feh -Fdr -A 'echo cp -a \"%F\" \"$(echo %F | sed -E "{   
   s~/_all/[1-5][ont]{1,2}~~ ; s~ +\([ont]{1,2}\)~~ }" )\"' 'Family   
   History/_all/1o'   
      
   ... which results in ...   
      
   cp -a "Family History/_all/1o/Alston/Alston Descent - 2nd Earl Of   
   Montrose, William - 1 (o).png" "Family History/Alston/Alston Descent -   
   2nd Earl Of Montrose, William - 1.png"   
      
   ... which looks as though it should do the job, however removing the   
   echo ...   
      
   user@computer:~# feh -Fdr -A 'cp -a \"%F\" \"$(echo %F | sed -E "{   
   s~/_all/[1-5][ont]{1,2}~~ ; s~ +\([ont]{1,2}\)~~ }" )\"' 'Family   
   History/_all/1o'   
      
   ... results in ...   
      
   cp: target '1.png"' is not a directory   
      
   Can anyone suggest a magical incantation which will yield the desired   
   result?   
      
   Another problem is that I'm going to have order the files so that each   
   of the 5 possible versions are displayed successively so that I can use   
   the arrow keys to go back and forth between them to choose the best.  I   
   think I might be able to use a file list to do this, but as yet I   
   haven't given much thought as to how to create it, it would have to be   
   of the form:   
      
   Family History/_all/1o/Alston/Document 1 (o).png   
   Family History/_all/2n/Alston/Document 1 (n).png   
   Family History/_all/3t/Alston/Document 1 (t).png   
   Family History/_all/4nt/Alston/Document 1 (nt).png   
   Family History/_all/5tn/Alston/Document 1 (tn).png   
   Family History/_all/1o/Alston/Document 2 (o).png   
   Family History/_all/2n/Alston/Document 2 (n).png   
   Family History/_all/3t/Alston/Document 2 (t).png   
   Family History/_all/4nt/Alston/Document 2 (nt).png   
   Family History/_all/5tn/Alston/Document 2 (tn).png   
   etc.   
      
   I could also use Windows if there's a better solution available there,   
   but that seems unlikely to me.   
      
   Any help gratefully received.   
      
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