On Wednesday 25 June 2008, Grant wrote:
> Feel free to ignore me here, but if anyone could whip out a quick
> script for this I would really appreciate it.
>
> I need to move any files from dir1 to dir2 if they don't already
> exist in dir2 with a slightly different filename. The dir1 files are
> named like a-1.jpg and the dir2 files are named like
> a-1_original.jpg.
>
> - Grant
rough and ready, off the top of my head:
cd dir1
for i in *jpg
do
j = basename $i .jpg
cp -u ${j}.jpg dir2/${j}_original.jpg
done
'cp -u' works around the messy problem of checking if the destination
file exists
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Alan McKinnon
alan dot mckinnon at gmail dot com
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