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Re: add folder name to filename


Eric Blake wrote:
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According to Nikolaos A. Patsopoulos on 9/14/2006 6:23 AM:
I used the following script but doesn't work under cygwin:

for file in folder*/*; do
dir=$(basename $(dirname $file) )
base=$(basename $file)
mv $file $(dirname $file)/${dir}_${base}
done

What is the actual error message you are seeing? But I bet the problem is due to your missing quoting, so your problem is not cygwin-specific. I would guess that you are having issues due to spaces or other shell metacharacters in the filenames being interpreted literally.

Does anyone has a suggestion or where I should look?

A good tutorial on shell programming? Hint:


for file in folder*/*; do
     dir=$(basename "$(dirname "$file")")
     base=$(basename "$file")
     mv "$file" "$(dirname "$file")/${dir}_${base}"
done

(That won't work on filenames with \n as the last character, but
fortunately, unless you use cygwin managed mounts, that is not an issue on
cygwin).

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Eric Blake             ebb9@byu.net
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I get the same error with my code and yours:

Script started, file is typescript

nothing happens, except an empty file called typescript in the parent directory


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