Frank Steinmetzger wrote:
> Am Tue, Nov 22, 2022 at 03:59:27AM -0600 schrieb Dale:
>
>>> If you still want to stick to a terminal solution akin to mv, then there is
>>> no way around a little script which wraps mv by extracting the extension and
>>> filename base. You could also add some “intelligence” with regards to
>>> directories, in order to reduce the amount of effort required to use the
>>> command—in case your directories follow some schema or are constant.
>>>
>>>
>>> #!/usr/bin/sh
>>>
>>> [ "$#" -ne "2" ] && exit 1
>>> SRC="$1"
>>> DST="$2"
>>>
>>> SRC_EXT="${SRC##*.}"
>>> DST_BASE="${DST%.*}"
>>>
>>> # remove destination for the case that the extensions differ
>>> rm "$DST"
>>>
>>> mv "$SRC" "${DST_BASE}${SRC_EXT}"
>>>
>> I finally got a chance to try this. I saved it and made it executable.
>> It runs but gave me this error.
>>
>>
>> dmv torrent/video_name-old-place.mp4 video-name-new-place.mp4
>> bash: /bin/dmv: /usr/bin/sh: bad interpreter: No such file or directory
>> dale@fireball ~/Desktop/Crypt/Series $
>>
>>
>> My scripting skills are minimal at best. Still, I kinda got what your
>> script was doing. Those who have known me for a while understand how
>> miraculous that is. ROFL I did some googling. It seems to not be able
>> to find the 'shebang' part. Sure enough, sh isn't located in /usr/bin
>> here. It's in /bin tho. I edited that line so it can find it. When I
>> tried it, it worked but noticed another problem. […]
> Well, it would have been boring to provide you with a turn-key solution. ;-)
> Congrats on getting it working. In my Arch setup, sh is in /usr/bin. A
> flexible solution is to use #!/usr/bin/env sh, which looks the command up
> before executing it.
>
>> I added a little . on that last line before the extension bit. I'm a
>> happy camper.
> Give me a nudge if you want the more luxurious version with interactive
> selection of the overwrite destination. I think I already started a
> prototype somewhere, but can’t find it right now.
>
Feel free to share. Even if I don't use it, someone else may find it
and make good use of it. It's one reason I posted the corrected version
and why I changed what I did. Someone else just may run up on this and
find it helpful as well. If possible and you have time, describe a bit
what each part does.
Usually when I do this, I have several videos, anywhere from 10 to
sometimes 30 or more. Sometimes I wish it could 'detect' which new one
goes with which old one. Thing is, I don't know if a script can do this
or not. Sometimes the new is named pretty different from the old. I
don't think a script could do it reliably. If things were more
consistent, maybe, but there is a lot of differences at times. Your
scripts at least keeps the extension correct without adding any more
effort on my part, except having to type dmv instead of mv. I chose d
since the first letter of my name is d. It was something. lol
The current script sure is handy tho.
Dale
:-) :-)
