david wrote:
The scrip works as long as there are no blanks.... unfortunately there
are lots of blanks in both directories and filenames. Can anyone tell me
what i should be doing?
#!/bin/bash
# takes the first 3 chars of each directory and
# prepends it to the file names in that directory.
#cd /home/david/Desktop/musicbyalbum
cd /home/david/test
for x in $(ls)
do
I think this might work for you
y=$(echo "$x" | cut -c -3)
for z in $(ls "$x")
do
mv "$x"/"$z" "$x"/"$y""$z"
done
done
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