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Top Forums Shell Programming and Scripting Move file based on filename Post 302419707 by frans on Saturday 8th of May 2010 04:21:24 AM
Old 05-08-2010
Quote:
Originally Posted by aemestech
Now how do i replace FILE to make it a variable knowing that the the filename convention is NNNNN_XXXX.pdf
FILE is a variable, i just initalized it at the beginning to have an example value.
Now you can :
Replace 1st line with FILE=$1, to have the ability to call the script like
Code:
./script 66600_042706.pdf

or put the code in a loop like :
Code:
for FILE in *.pdf
do
  .....
done

---------- Post updated at 10:21 ---------- Previous update was at 10:15 ----------

Second requirement :
Just replace
Code:
DIR=${FILE%%_*}

by
Code:
DIR=$(echo ${FILE%.*} | sed 's|_|/|g')

 

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