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Need help with shell script for moving/deleting/renaming files
Post 302395330 by aflower on Monday 15th of February 2010 04:50:32 PM
02-15-2010
Thanks, that looks like just the right thing :-)
But, how do I execute it?
I've saved it as split.sh, added #!/bin/bash at the beginning and chmod'ed it 777, then tried to run it (both as normal user and as root) with ./split.sh, but I only get bash: ./split.sh: Permission denied or bash: ./split.sh: /bin/bash: bad interpreter: Permission denied
I've also tried to run it without the #!/bin/bash, but it won't run.
edit: I just ran it from the commandline now, and it seems to be working, kinda. I ran it in a directory I made for testing, and it seems like it fails when it tries to cd "$splitdir".
If I change the command to echo "$splitdir", I get this output: ./Iron Maiden/1980 Album - Iron Maiden [GIR - FLAC - 1998 remaster]/split. I guess the problem here is that spaces needs to be escaped. Any input on that?
All the FLAC-files in my test directory were deleted however, so I guess it was wise to test it first, hehe. I also have a backup of everything else, in case something goes wrong when the script is ready to do it's job
But, how do I execute it?
I've saved it as split.sh, added #!/bin/bash at the beginning and chmod'ed it 777, then tried to run it (both as normal user and as root) with ./split.sh, but I only get bash: ./split.sh: Permission denied or bash: ./split.sh: /bin/bash: bad interpreter: Permission denied
I've also tried to run it without the #!/bin/bash, but it won't run.
edit: I just ran it from the commandline now, and it seems to be working, kinda. I ran it in a directory I made for testing, and it seems like it fails when it tries to cd "$splitdir".
If I change the command to echo "$splitdir", I get this output: ./Iron Maiden/1980 Album - Iron Maiden [GIR - FLAC - 1998 remaster]/split. I guess the problem here is that spaces needs to be escaped. Any input on that?
All the FLAC-files in my test directory were deleted however, so I guess it was wise to test it first, hehe. I also have a backup of everything else, in case something goes wrong when the script is ready to do it's job
Last edited by aflower; 02-15-2010 at 06:11 PM..
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