Re: [SLUG] File Renaming

From: Eben King (eben1@tampabay.rr.com)
Date: Fri Aug 20 2004 - 16:51:05 EDT

On Fri, 20 Aug 2004, Levi Bard wrote:

> My contribution:
> ---
> #!/bin/sh
> # renamemany.sh
> # renames all files in given directories from /path/to/file ->
> /path/to/path-to-file
> # Usage: renamemany.sh dir1 dir2 dir3 ...
>
> for dir in "$@"
> do
> for i in `find "${dir}" -name '*' | grep '/[^$]'`
                                  ^^^^^^^^^
Skip that... it's the same as

          for i in `find "${dir}" | grep '/[^$]'`
                                    ^^^^^^^^^^^^

What does this do?

While I'm at it, you can do

          for i in `ls "${dir}" | grep '/[^$]'`
> do
> ipath=`echo "$i" | sed 's,/[^/]*$,/,'`
> newname=`echo "$i" | sed 's,/,-,g'`
> mv -i "$i" "${ipath}${newname}"
> done
> done 

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                  the wrong conclusion with confidence.

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