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A script that will move a file to a directory with the same name and then rename that file
Post 302370450 by marcozd on Wednesday 11th of November 2009 12:06:42 PM
11-11-2009
A script that will move a file to a directory with the same name and then rename that file
Hello all.
I am new to this forum (and somewhat new to UNIX / LINUX - I started using ubuntu 1 year ago).
I have the following problem that I have not been able to figure out how to take care of and I was wondering if anyone could help me out.
I have all of my music stored in the following structure
"/home/Music/artist name/" where "artist name" is the name of the artist. For example, there is a directory called "/home/Music/ACDC/" with all of my ACDC.
I have a directory of picture files for all of the artists in my music library i.e "/home/artists/" and all of the files have the extension .jpg. Each artist has one file that is named exactly as the directory in my "/home/Music/" directory. That is, I have a file called ACDC.jpg to match "/home/Music/ACDC/"
Now, what I want to do is the following: move each of the picture files in "/home/artists/" to the matching directory in /home/Music/.
So it should move "/home/artists/ACDC.jpg" to "/home/Music/ACDC/". Maybe this requires regular expressions of some kind, I don't know.
THEN:
After the files are moved, I want ALL of the newly moved files stored in each of the artist directories in "/home/Music/" to be renamed to "folder.jpg".
Thus "/home/Music/ACDC/ACDC.jpg" would become "/home/Music/ACDC/folder.jpg"
Is this possible? I really hope it is, because it would take me days, if not weeks, to manually copy and paste all of the files and then rename them one by one.
I am new to this forum (and somewhat new to UNIX / LINUX - I started using ubuntu 1 year ago).
I have the following problem that I have not been able to figure out how to take care of and I was wondering if anyone could help me out.
I have all of my music stored in the following structure
"/home/Music/artist name/" where "artist name" is the name of the artist. For example, there is a directory called "/home/Music/ACDC/" with all of my ACDC.
I have a directory of picture files for all of the artists in my music library i.e "/home/artists/" and all of the files have the extension .jpg. Each artist has one file that is named exactly as the directory in my "/home/Music/" directory. That is, I have a file called ACDC.jpg to match "/home/Music/ACDC/"
Now, what I want to do is the following: move each of the picture files in "/home/artists/" to the matching directory in /home/Music/.
So it should move "/home/artists/ACDC.jpg" to "/home/Music/ACDC/". Maybe this requires regular expressions of some kind, I don't know.
THEN:
After the files are moved, I want ALL of the newly moved files stored in each of the artist directories in "/home/Music/" to be renamed to "folder.jpg".
Thus "/home/Music/ACDC/ACDC.jpg" would become "/home/Music/ACDC/folder.jpg"
Is this possible? I really hope it is, because it would take me days, if not weeks, to manually copy and paste all of the files and then rename them one by one.
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git-mv - Move or rename a file, a directory, or a symlink SYNOPSIS
git mv <options>... <args>... DESCRIPTION
This script is used to move or rename a file, directory or symlink. git mv [-v] [-f] [-n] [-k] <source> <destination> git mv [-v] [-f] [-n] [-k] <source> ... <destination directory> In the first form, it renames <source>, which must exist and be either a file, symlink or directory, to <destination>. In the second form, the last argument has to be an existing directory; the given sources will be moved into this directory. The index is updated after successful completion, but the change must still be committed. OPTIONS
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