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Top Forums Shell Programming and Scripting Need help with shell script for moving/deleting/renaming files Post 302395431 by aflower on Tuesday 16th of February 2010 04:41:48 AM
Old 02-16-2010
Hi. There was indeed an error in the script, but you were right about the " around $splitdir, they did the job.

The problem was that in your version, you deleted *.flac in the parent directory AFTER moving the *.flac from the split directory.

In my version, I delete *.flac from ../ BEFORE I move the *.flac.

I'm running it on my data now (have backup of course), and things seem to work as planned.

Thanks for the help :-)

Code:
 
find . -type d -name split |
  while IFS= read -r splitdir
  do
    (
      cd "$splitdir" || continue
      rm -f ../*.flac
      mv -f *.flac ..
      cd .. || continue
      rm -rf split
      for cue in *.cue
      do
        mv "$cue" "$cue.singlefile"
      done
      echo moved "$splitdir"
    )
  done

 

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NAME

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SYNOPSIS

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DESCRIPTION

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