For Loop To Rename Multiple Files Finds One Non-existant File
Okay so here's something that's confusing me: I have a script that's designed to remove the words "new_" from the front of any file except two exceptions and it looks something like this...
But what's happening is that it works perfectly on any directory except one that has no files starting with "new_". In that case it will still get in the if statement and report a single occurrence. It will report that it found a file called "new_*"
This I do not understand. Can someone please explain why it is seeing a non-existent file that just happens to match the description given in the for loop? Thanks.
Last edited by Scott; 11-16-2010 at 07:25 PM..
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Well the title is not too good, so I will explain.
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???file1.txt
???file2.txt
???file1a.txt
???file2a.txt
to be:
???renamedfile1'date'.txt
???renamedfile2'date'.txt
???renamedfile1a'date'.txt
???renamedfile2a'date'.txt
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