On Sat, 2006-05-20 at 15:25 +1000, david wrote:
My latest attempt below... and it works all the way down to the mv line,
but then fails because of the spaces. I get this diagnostic:
mv: when moving multiple files, last argument must be a directory
#!/bin/bash
# takes the first 3 chars of each directory name and
# prepends it to the file names within that directory.
ls | while read x
do
y=$(echo "$x" | cut -c -3)
ls "$x" | while read z
do
mv "$x"/"$z" "$x"/$y"$z"
done
done
> On Sat, 2006-05-20 at 15:12 +1000, Howard Lowndes wrote:
> >
> I've changed the scrip thus:
>
> #!/bin/bash
> cd /home/david/test
> for x in $(ls)
> do
> y=$(echo "$x" | cut -c -3)
> for z in $(ls "$x")
> do
> mv "$x"/"$z" "$x"/$y"$z"
> done
> done
>
> but this is what i get:
>
> [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~ $ ls -l test
> total 12
> drwxr-xr-x 2 david david 4096 2006-05-20 15:16 1test
> drwxr-xr-x 2 david david 4096 2006-05-20 15:16 2test
> drwxr-xr-x 2 david david 4096 2006-05-20 15:14 3 test
> [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~ $ ls test/3\ test/
> 3 test
> [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~ $ ./shelltest
> ls: 3: No such file or directory
> ls: test: No such file or directory
> [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~ $
>
>
>
> > 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
> > >
> > >
> >
> > --
> > Howard.
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>
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