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Top Forums Shell Programming and Scripting Need help with shell script for moving/deleting/renaming files Post 302395232 by aflower on Monday 15th of February 2010 11:33:28 AM
Old 02-15-2010
Question Need help with shell script for moving/deleting/renaming files

Hi.

I need help with a little script that will be used to move some files to their parent directory, delete the directory, rename one file in the parent directory and delete another, then continue to the next.

Here's an example:

/var/media/Music/Genesis/1970 album - Trespass (2008 Box - 1970-1975) [GIR - FLAC - 2008 remaster]/split/ contains these files:

01.00 - (HTOA).flac
01 - Looking for Someone.flac
02 - White Mountain.flac
03 - Visions of Angels.flac
04 - Stagnation.flac
05 - Dusk.flac
06 - The Knife.flac
folder.jpg
Trespass-split.cue

The parent directory, /var/media/Music/Genesis/1970 album - Trespass (2008 Box - 1970-1975) [GIR - FLAC - 2008 remaster]/, contains these files:

split (subdirectory)
folder.jpg
Trespass.cue
Trespass.flac

I want the script to move *.flac from the "split" directory to it's parent. After the move, the "split" directory should be deleted, together with any files remaining in it.
Then, in this example, the script should rename "Trespass.cue" to "Trespass.cue.singlefile", and delete Trespass.flac.

After that, it should move on to the next directory that contains a subdirectory named "split". Any directory that doesn't contain a subdirectory named "split" should be ignored.

The uppermost directory for this operation is /var/media/Music/.

I have some knowledge of PHP, but I guess that isn't the most efficient language for this operation.

Could anyone please help me out here? Would save me several weeks of tedious manual moving of files =)

My system is running Debian 5.0.3.
 

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