>> >> 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
>>
>> Thanks guys, can you tell me how to execute this? Put it in a file
>
> yes
>
>> and './file' I think?
>
> Either that or chmod a+x file and execute it directly
>
>> Should I have special stuff at the top of the
>> file?
>
> #!/bin/bash
I put the above script in a file, added the appropriate header, issued
chmod, and when I execute with ./file I get a bunch of these:
./script: line 6: j: command not found
cp: cannot stat `.jpg': No such file or directory
- Grant
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