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On Wednesday 25 June 2008, Grant wrote: |
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> >> Feel free to ignore me here, but if anyone could whip out a quick |
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> >> script for this I would really appreciate it. |
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> >> I need to move any files from dir1 to dir2 if they don't already |
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> >> exist in dir2 with a slightly different filename. The dir1 files |
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> >> are named like a-1.jpg and the dir2 files are named like |
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> >> a-1_original.jpg. |
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> >> |
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> >> - Grant |
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> > rough and ready, off the top of my head: |
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> > cd dir1 |
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> > for i in *jpg |
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> > do |
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> > j = basename $i .jpg |
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> > cp -u ${j}.jpg dir2/${j}_original.jpg |
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> > done |
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> > |
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> > 'cp -u' works around the messy problem of checking if the |
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> > destination file exists |
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> Thanks guys, can you tell me how to execute this? Put it in a file |
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yes |
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> and './file' I think? |
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Either that or chmod a+x file and execute it directly |
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> Should I have special stuff at the top of the |
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> file? |
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#!/bin/bash |
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Alan McKinnon |
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alan dot mckinnon at gmail dot com |
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