Hello everyone,

Just registered here, I'm kinda new to Unix

I've been trying to automate some processes with various Windows tools. I found that using unix scripts the result would be closest to my needs. So I installed Cygwin on Windows 7.

My folders and files are structured like this:

folder1
-file1_temp.txt
-file2_temp.txt

folder2
-file1_temp.txt
-file2_temp.txt

The desired outcome should look like this:

folder1
-file1_folder1.txt
-file2_folder1.txt

folder2
-file1_folder2.txt
-file2_folder2.txt


Now, here's what's bothering me:

1. I have a loop script for renaming files which contain the "temp" string for the current opened folder:

for i1 in *temp.*
do
i2=`echo $i1 | sed 's/temp/<FOLDER_NAME>/g'`
mv $i1 $i2
done

Try this...
The script is placed in the parent directory where the subfolders are present and ths script name is "run.sh"

#!/bin/ksh

HOMEDIR=/user/ahamed/test
dirs=`ls | grep -v run`

for dir in $dirs
do
  cd $HOMEDIR/$dir
  files=`ls`
  dirname=`echo $dir | sed 's=/==g'`
  for file in $files
  do
    newfile=`echo $file | sed "s/temp/$dirname/g"`
        mv $file $newfile
  done
done

Worked great, thanks Ahamed!

I have one last question

Now the script looks like this:

#!/bin/ksh
HOMEDIR=/cygdrive/n/test
dirs=`ls | grep -v run`
for dir in $dirs
do
  cd $HOMEDIR/$dir
  files=`ls`
  dirname=`echo $dir | sed 's=/==g'`
  for file in $files
  do
    newfile=`echo $file | sed "s/temp/$dirname/g"`
        mv $file $newfile
  done
done

grep '.*' *.txt > merged_temp.txt #merging all text files in the opened subfolder to one file
sed -i 's/.txt:/ /g' merged_temp.txt #trimming the merged file for better looks

If you are using the grep and sed command to merge all the file in the subfolder to one big file, then you can try this

#!/bin/ksh
HOMEDIR=/cygdrive/n/test
dirs=`ls | grep -v run`
for dir in $dirs
do
  cd $HOMEDIR/$dir
  files=`ls`
  dirname=`echo $dir | sed 's=/==g'`
  for file in $files
  do
    echo $file >> merged_$dir.txt    #this will have the file name first
    cat $file >> merged_$dir.txt    # and then the contents.
    newfile=`echo $file | sed "s/temp/$dirname/g"`
    mv $file $newfile
  done
done

I was thinking of something like this:

#!/bin/ksh
HOMEDIR=/cygdrive/n/test
dirs=`ls | grep -v run`
for dir in $dirs
do
  cd $HOMEDIR/$dir
  files=`ls`
  dirname=`echo $dir | sed 's=/==g'`
  for file in $files
  do
	grep '.*' *.txt > _merged_temp.txt
	sed -i 's/.txt:/ /g' _merged_temp.txt
	newfile=`echo $file | sed "s/temp/$dirname/g"`
    mv $file $newfile
  done
done

I am not sure why it creates the merged file in the main folder.
Anyways you can try this giving the full folder path

    ...
    grep '.*' *.txt > $HOMEDIR/$dir/_merged_temp.txt
    sed -i 's/.txt:/ /g' $HOMEDIR/$dir/_merged_temp.txt
    ...

Thank you again!

Everything is fine now, only thing that bothers me is the message:

mv: `file1.txt' and `file1.txt' are the same file