Re: [gentoo-user] Quick script request

[Alex Schuster]

Grant asks:

> Feel free to ignore me here, but if anyone could whip out a quick
> script for this I would really appreciate it.

Whipped. Be sure to test it, because I did not :) Remove the echo statement 
when you are sure it works.

> I need to move any files from dir1 to dir2 if they don't already exist
> in dir2 with a slightly different filename.  The dir1 files are named
> like a-1.jpg and the dir2 files are named like a-1_original.jpg.

cd $dir1
for file in *
do
	if ! [[ -f $dir2/${file%.*}_original.${file##*.} ]]
	then
		echo mv -v "$file" "$dir2/"
	fi
done

Loop over all files. If not exists a file called dir2/${file%.*}_original.
${file##*/}, move $file. ${file%.*} removes the suffix from $file 
(everything from the last dot on), while ${file##*.} removes everything 
until the dot, leaving the suffix only. Be sure to use the correct path for 
dir2, either absolute or with some ../ in it.

	Alex
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