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Re: add folder name to filename
- From: Eric Blake <ebb9 at byu dot net>
- To: cygwin at cygwin dot com, npatsop at cc dot uoi dot gr
- Date: Thu, 14 Sep 2006 06:31:00 -0600
- Subject: Re: add folder name to filename
- References: <450949CF.5050306@cc.uoi.gr>
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According to Nikolaos A. Patsopoulos on 9/14/2006 6:23 AM:
>
> I used the following script but doesn't work under cygwin:
>
> for file in folder*/*; do
> dir=$(basename $(dirname $file) )
> base=$(basename $file)
> mv $file $(dirname $file)/${dir}_${base}
> done
What is the actual error message you are seeing? But I bet the problem is
due to your missing quoting, so your problem is not cygwin-specific. I
would guess that you are having issues due to spaces or other shell
metacharacters in the filenames being interpreted literally.
>
> Does anyone has a suggestion or where I should look?
A good tutorial on shell programming? Hint:
for file in folder*/*; do
dir=$(basename "$(dirname "$file")")
base=$(basename "$file")
mv "$file" "$(dirname "$file")/${dir}_${base}"
done
(That won't work on filenames with \n as the last character, but
fortunately, unless you use cygwin managed mounts, that is not an issue on
cygwin).
- --
Life is short - so eat dessert first!
Eric Blake ebb9@byu.net
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