I have been looking for a function that will parse through my big directory tree and append the containing directory name to the file names of specific files in that directory. I haven't had much luck, so far.
I found Henery Rich's phrasesfiles.ijs scripts. However, I haven't figured out how to get those functions to rename all the files in a folder at once. Those functions will access specific files with wildcards, but not all the files. Also, the current directory names are really long (several hundred characters) so the resulting file names would be pretty cumbersome. I would prefer to use a unique integer to append to all the file names in each directory, as that makes the file names manageable, as well as easier to handle and select. Skip On Tue, Nov 22, 2011 at 6:16 AM, Raul Miller <[email protected]> wrote: > Why not keep the directory names as prefixes to the file name? (Remove the > directory separator for the rename)? > > -- > Raul > > On Tue, Nov 22, 2011 at 3:05 AM, Skip Cave <[email protected]> > wrote: > > > The data structure I am working on has a directory structure that is > > several levels deep. At the deepest level, there are over 10,000 > > directories. Only the lowest-level directories contain files. > > > > Each of the lowest-level directories contains one file labeled ' log.gz', > > and several sequentially-labeled files named > > 'ep_call00000_utt00001.wav.gz', ep_call00000_utt00002.wav.gz', etc. There > > are some other files in this lowest-level directory that we can ignore. > > > > I want to extract all the log.gz files and all the wav.gz files in all > > these thousands of lowest-level directories and put them all in a single > > directory. However, all the log files have the same name, and the wav.gz > > files will also have conflicting names. So I need to rename the files > > before putting them all in one directory. > > > > In addition, I need to keep the association between the log file in each > > directory, and the various wav.gz files that were also in that same > > directory. > > To do this, I would like to rename each log.gz file to a number which is > an > > integer between 1 & 100,000, labeled sequentially. I would also like that > > same integer to replace the 'ep_call0000' portion of the wav.gz file name > > of each of the wav.gz files which are in the same directory as the log.gz > > file, while maintaining the sequential numbering of the last part of the > > wav.gz name. Each lowest-level directory would have its files renamed > with > > the next higher integer. > > > > The files in the first lowest-level directory are named 'log.gz', > > 'ep_call00000_utt00001.wav.gz',and ep_call00000_utt00002.wav.gz'. We > > would rename these files to: 100000log.gz, 1000000_utt00001.wav.gz', and > > 100000_utt00002.wav.gz', and then put the renamed files in the new common > > directory. > > > > The files in the second lowest-level directory are named 'log.gz', > > 'ep_call00000_utt00001.wav.gz', 'ep_call00000_utt00002.wav.gz', and > > 'ep_call00000_utt00003.wav.gz'. We would rename these files to: > > 100001log.gz, 1000001_utt00001.wav.gz', 100001_utt00002.wav.gz'', and > > '100001_utt00003.wav.gz', then put the renamed files in the new common > > directory. > > > > We would continue the rename/copy process until all of the log & wav > files > > had been renamed and copied to the new directory. > > > > Is there a simple way to do this in J, or should I be looking at a > > command-line batch file for this kind of job? > > > > Skip > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > > For information about J forums see http://www.jsoftware.com/forums.htm > > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > For information about J forums see http://www.jsoftware.com/forums.htm > -- Skip Cave Cave Consulting LLC Phone: 214-460-4861 ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For information about J forums see http://www.jsoftware.com/forums.htm
