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_adam_

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From: Dora, Alabama

Registered: 2006-05-18

Posts: 94

problem with adding prefixes to files in bash

i'm trying to write a script that will copy files from all directories below the pwd into the pwd and add a prefix of "[directory name]-" so that identically named files will not be overwritten and so i can still determine what group they belong to. doing something like:
for i in *; do for h in $i/*; mv $h ./$i-$h; done; done;
is obviously gonna be messed up because $h will expand to $directory/$file.

can anyone point me in the right direction to do this?

Gilneas

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From: Netherlands

Registered: 2006-10-22

Posts: 320

Re: problem with adding prefixes to files in bash

Try this:

for file in $(find -type f); do mv "$file" "$(echo $file | sed 's#^\.\(.*\)/#[\1]-#;s#/##g')"; done

Last edited by Gilneas (2007-11-12 03:39:21)

_adam_

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From: Dora, Alabama

Registered: 2006-05-18

Posts: 94

Re: problem with adding prefixes to files in bash

THANKS!

now i need to brush up on my sed skills and figure out whats happening there. thanks again.

Cerebral

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From: Waterloo, ON, CA

Registered: 2005-04-08

Posts: 3,108

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Re: problem with adding prefixes to files in bash

Also, basename is your friend

for i in *; do for h in ${i}/*; mv ${h} ./${i}-$(basename ${h}); done; done;