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# 8  
Old 12-24-2015
Quote:
Originally Posted by RudiC
Give this - although not thoroughly tested - a try and report back:
Code:
find ./folder? -name "*.txt" | while read FN; do PT=${FN%/*}/; FN=${FN#$PT}; echo mv ${PT}*.cad finished/${FN%.txt}.cad; echo rmdir ${PT%/*/*}; done
mv ./folder3/folder3sub/file.cad finished/important.cad
rmdir ./folder3

Remove the echo if happy with the results. You may need to use the rm -f instead of rmdir.
thank you very much rudi, but i might forgot to say, that my main problem is, that i dont know the names of the folders before :-/
# 9  
Old 12-25-2015
So ...?
# 10  
Old 01-07-2016
Sorry, I had a few days off.
So what I mean is, that this "folder" or "folder3" is not always the same name. Its name could be like "xyz" and the next folder is like "12345".
What I understand is, the first line is the rename process, but in the 2nd line you wrote "/folder3/folder3sub/file.cad", but this should be done with variables, caus the whole path could be different, so even the rmdirpath.
# 11  
Old 01-07-2016
The second and third line are the result of the first, echoing what would be done (instead of doing it). Modify the start folder in the find command, run the short script and report back on the results.
# 12  
Old 01-08-2016
Oh, I could have seen that by my own :S

Code:
root@s17989037:/home/test# find ./ -name "*.txt" | while read FN; do PT=${FN%/*}/; FN=${FN#$PT}; echo mv ${PT}*.cad finished/${FN%.txt}.cad; echo rmdir ${PT%/*/*}; done
mv ./bla.sadasdasdasd.dasd/abcde.cad finished/prrrrrrrr.cad
rmdir .
mv ./asdfffff/sub/file123.cad finished/asd.cad
rmdir ./asdfffff
mv ./1337/test123.cad finished/noname.cad
rmdir .
root@s17989037:/home/test#

okay, i got it working with rm -rf , but for some directories it still says

Code:
rm: cannot remove directory: `.'
rm: cannot remove directory: `.'
rm: cannot remove directory: `.'
rm: cannot remove directory: `.'

i changed it to
Code:
rm -rf ${PT%}

and this seems to work fine
what were these /*/* for?

---------- Post updated at 09:58 AM ---------- Previous update was at 09:33 AM ----------

Okay, i dont want to edit my last post again.
So for now its working with 2 problems:

directories with *.txt and without *.cad are deleted too (should not happen)
and
if im in a subdirectory, the mainfolder is not deleted, just the subdirectory
Last edited by peter1337; 01-08-2016 at 10:53 AM..
# 13  
Old 01-09-2016
That scriptlet was not intended to run in ./ but on subdirectories below it.
/*/* expands to two directory levels below . .

You could rm the .txt file IF the .cad file has been mved successfully; then rmdir should work correctly , too.
Why should the main folder be deleted?
# 14  
Old 01-26-2016
After some hours of getting into this bash stuff, I got my script finally working, as I want it. Even my script looks pretty different to yours I build it up on your "-name
Code:
-name "*.txt" | while read FN; do PT=${FN%/*}/; FN=${FN#$PT};

Part
Thank you :-)
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