RE: [LUG] I'm back :-)

["Darke, Clive" <Clive.darke@xxxxxx>]

Jon,

Try the following:

#!/bin/bash 

find . -type f -name '*' |while read -r AFILE
do 
 NEWNAME=`expr "$AFILE" : "\(.*\)?"` 
 if [ -a $NEWNAME ] 
 then 
    echo Duplicate file name $NEWNAME would be created 
 else 
     mv $AFILE $NEWNAME 
 fi 
done 

Note the 'for' loop is replaced by a while using read.  Changle the twinkle
(*) in the find statement to the pattern you require (but don't forget to
quote it!).

Cheers,
Clive


-----Original Message-----
From: Jonathan Melhuish [mailto:jon@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx]
Sent: 25 June 2003 17:46
To: list@xxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: Re: [LUG] I'm back :-)


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On Wednesday 25 June 2003 17:24, Jonathan Melhuish wrote:
> Oops, it was all my fault (suprise, suprise).  I changed "for AFILE in
> *\?*" to "for AFILE in ./*" because I just wanted to run it against every
> file. Thus, it would seem, completely screwing everything up...

Okay, one last quickie, if anyone's still feeling in a generous mood ;-)

How do I make it recurse through subdirectories?  Do I pipe it the output of
find or something?

Cheers,

Jon
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