I want to move a file to a folder based on its file extension.
example: if the file is .csv,it should move to COMPLETED folder , if the file has any extension other any .csv then it should move to REGULAR folder.
Below is my shell script and its not working. Can you let me know what is the problem with it?
#!/bin/bash
cd /apps/int/apd/$1/work
if ls /apps/int/apd/$1/work/*.csv &> /dev/null; then
mv *.csv /apps/int/apd/$1/COMPLETED
else
/apps/int/apd/$1/Regular
fi
Why do you have to check the existence of *.csv files?
#!/bin/bash
cd /apps/int/apd/$1/work
mv *.csv /apps/int/apd/$1/COMPLETED 2>/dev/null
mv * /apps/int/apd/$1/Regular
Here first .csv files are moved to COMPLETED folder. Then rest of the files are moved to Regular folder.
I am assuming you have created COMPLETED and Regular folders.
Change YOUR_PATH with your specific path and your path for /COMPLETED/ and /REGULAR/.
If I got what you wanted to explain i think your variables look like theese:
/YOUR_PATH/ = /apps/int/apd/$1/work
/COMPLETED/ = /apps/int/apd/$1/COMPLETED
/REGULAR/ = /apps/int/apd/$1/Regular
You can try this. :)
#!/bin/bash
for filename in /YOUR_PATH/*;
do
Path="$filename"
extension="${filename##*.}"
if [ "${extension}" = 'csv' ]; then
mv $Path /COMPLETED/
else
mv $Path /REGULAR/
fi
done
If you need anything pls leave a comment. :)
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So I have been trying to rename about 5000 folders based on a CSV (Old name, Newname)
This is a one time operation, once hdkjsh2-2f8c-46b9-bbdb_doc is converted to 3 then it will not need to be touched again.
I have tried the solution here (Setting up an automator workflow with a command script) but found that it does not do a great deal when it comes to folder/directory names and all the guides/documentation is around file names and not folder.
Any suggestions would be much appreciated
Example of CSV
Doc_Location, New_ID
hdkjsh2-2f8c-46b9-bbdb_doc , 3
Please make a backup before trying the following.
Save the following script in your HOME directory as renamer:
#!/bin/bash
cat "file.csv" | while IFS=' ,' read dir new ; do
if [ -d "$dir" ]; then
echo Rename $dir as $new
#mv "$dir" "$new"
else
echo "ERROR: Directory $dir not found - ignored"
fi
done
Then start Terminal and make the script executable by running:
chmod +x $HOME/renamer
Then change directory to where your directories are that need renaming:
cd path/to/things/needing/renaming
Make sure you have your CSV, called file.csv saved in that directory, then run with:
$HOME/renamer
It doesn't actually do anything, it just tells you what it would do. If it looks correct, edit $HOME/renamer and remove the single # on the line that says:
#mv "$dir" "$new"
so that is looks like:
mv "$dir" "$new"
Then be doubly sure you have made a backup and run the script again:
$HOME/renamer
Go to the folder where the other folders you want to rename are located. Select all the folders you want to rename. Then click on the action icon at the top of finder window. This will open a window where one option is to rename x items. See image below.
When you select "Rename x items" you get a box like the one shown below where you can specify the new names.
I am relatively new to bash scripting.
I need to create a script that will loop through a series of directories, go into subdirectories with a certain name, and then move their file contents into a common folder for all of the files.
My code so far is this:
#!/bin/bash
#used to gather usable pdb files
mkdir -p usable_pdbFiles
#loop through directories in "pdb" folder
for pdbDirectory in */
do
#go into usable_* directory
for innerDirectory in usable_*/
do
if [ -d "$innerDirectory" ] ; then
for file in *.ent
do
mv $file ../../usable_pdbFiles
done < $file
fi
done < $innerDirectory
done
exit 0
Currently I get
usable_Gather.sh: line 7: $innerDirectory: ambiguous redirect
when I try and run the script.
Any help would be appreciated!
The redirections < $innerDirectory and < $file are invalid and this is causing the problem. You don't need to use a loop for this, you can instead rely on the shell's filename expansion and use mv directly:
mkdir -p usable_pdbFiles
mv */usable_*/*.ent usable_pdbFiles
Bear in mind that this solution, and the loop based one that you are working on, will overwrite files with the same name in the destination directory.
The aim of my script:
look at all the files in a directory ($Home/Music/TEST) and its sub-directories (they are music files)
find out what music genre each file belongs to
if the genre is Heavy, then move the file to another directory ($Home/Music/Output)
This is what I have:
#!/bin/bash
cd Music/TEST
for files in *
do
if [ -f "$files" ];then
# use mminfo to get the track info
genre=`mminfo "$files"|grep genre|awk -F: '{print $2}'|sed 's/^ *//g'|sed 's/[^a-zA-Z0-9\ \-\_]//g'`
if [ $genre = Heavy ] ;then
mv "$files" "~/Music/Output/$files"
fi
fi
done
Please tell me how to write the mv command. Everything I have tried has failed. I get errors like this:
mv: cannot move ‘3rd Eye Landslide.mp3’ to ‘/Music/Output/3rd Eye Landslide.mp3’: No such file or directory
Please don't think I wrote that mminfo line - that's just copied from good old Google search. It's way beyond me.
Your second argument to mv appears to be "~/Music/Output/$files"
If the ~ is meant to signify your home directory, you should use $HOME instead, like:
mv "$files" "$HOME/Music/Output/$files"
~ does not expand to $HOME when quoted.
By the look of it the problem occurs when you move the file to its destination.Please check that /Music/Output/ exits from your current directory.Alternatively use the absolute path to make it safe. Also it's a good idea not use space in the file-name.Hope this will helps.:)
Put this command before mv command should fix your problem.
mkdir -p ~/Music/Output
I'm new in shell script and I am trying to figure out a way to write a script that copies all the files in the current directory to a directory specified from a .txt file and if there are matching names, it adds the current date in the form of FileName_YYYYMMDDmmss to the name of the file being copied to prevent overwritting.
Can someone help me out?
I saw thinking something along the lines of
#!/bin/bash
source=$pwd #I dont know wheter this actually makes sense I just want to
#say that my source directory is the one that I am in right now
destination=$1 #As I said I want to read the destination off of the .txt file
for i in $source #I just pseudo coded this part because I didn't figure it out.
do
if(file name exists)
then
copy by changing name
else
copy
fi
done
the problem is I have no idea how to check whether the name exist and copy and rename at the same time.
Thanks
How about this? I am supposing that the target directory is in the
file new_dir.txt.
#!/bin/bash
new_dir=$(cat new_dir.txt)
now=$(date +"%Y%m%d%M%S")
if [ ! -d $new_dir ]; then
echo "$new_dir doesn't exist" >&2
exit 1
fi
ls | while read ls_entry
do
if [ ! -f $ls_entry ]; then
continue
fi
if [ -f $new_dir/$ls_entry ]; then
cp $ls_entry $new_dir/$ls_entry\_$now
else
cp $ls_entry $new_dir/$ls_entry
fi
done
I guess this what you are looking for :
#!/bin/bash
dir=$(cat a.txt)
for i in $(ls -l|grep -v "^[dt]"|awk '{print $9}')
do
cp $i $dir/$i"_"$(date +%Y%m%d%H%M%S)
done
I assumed that a.txt contains only the name of the destination directory. If there are other entries, you should add some filter to the first statement(using grep or awk).
NB: I used full time stamp(YYYYMMDDHHmmss) instead of your YYYYMMDDmmss as it doesn't seem logical.
I am having trouble with a simple grading script I am writing. I have a directory called HW5 containing a folder for each student in the class. From my current directory, which contains the HW5 folder, I would like to copy all files starting with the word mondial, to each of the students' folders. My script runs but does not copy any of the files over. Any suggestions?
#!/bin/bash
for file in ./HW5; do
if [ -d $file ]; then
cp ./mondial.* ./$file;
fi
done
Thanks,
The first loop was executing only once, with file equal ./HW5. Add the star to actually select the files or directories inside it.
#!/bin/bash
for file in ./HW5/*; do
if [ -d "$file" ]; then
cp ./mondial.* ./"$file"
fi
done
As suggested by Mark Reed, this can be simplified:
for file in ./HW5/*/; do
cp ./mondial.* ./"$file"
done