From: "Nikolaos A. Patsopoulos" <npatsop@cc.uoi.gr>
To: Eric Blake <ebb9@byu.net>
Cc: cygwin@cygwin.com
Subject: Re: add folder name to filename
Date: Thu, 14 Sep 2006 12:35:00 -0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <45094C90.3010804@cc.uoi.gr> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <45094B84.6010009@byu.net>
Eric Blake wrote:
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> According to Nikolaos A. Patsopoulos on 9/14/2006 6:23 AM:
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>> 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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I get the same error with my code and yours:
Script started, file is typescript
nothing happens, except an empty file called typescript in the parent
directory
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2006-09-14 12:35 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2006-09-14 12:23 Nikolaos A. Patsopoulos
2006-09-14 12:30 ` Eric Blake
2006-09-14 12:35 ` Nikolaos A. Patsopoulos [this message]
2006-09-14 12:43 ` Eric Blake
2006-09-14 12:53 ` Nikolaos A. Patsopoulos
2006-09-14 13:03 ` Nikolaos A. Patsopoulos
2006-09-14 13:09 ` Nikolaos A. Patsopoulos
2006-09-16 12:35 ` Re[2]: " oleyk
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