On Mon, Oct 4, 2010 at 11:20, Abhishek Gupta
<[email protected]> wrote:
> I have a music directory, in which there are say 200 directories
> corresponding to different movies. In each movie directory there are
> some music files.
>
> Now, say a file music_file.mp3 is in folder movie_folder.mp3 . I want
> to make a shell script such that it renames the file to
> movie_folder__music_file.mp3 and put it in some folder that I mention
> to it. Basically, all the files in the subdirectories are to be
> renamed and to be put in a new directory.

> Any workaround for this?

Use any Music player like Amarok ;)

> P.S : This is not for managing my music files

You must be cursing me now for the above. But what do you mean by a workaround?
Some options:
use
1. ls, cut and mv or cp
2. (g/m)awk
3. Some language like C, python or Perl

> but to have a better
> insight into the shell scripting.
So obviously I won't give you the code :D. But if you still want it,
it's definitely on the net.

>
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