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Top Forums Shell Programming and Scripting script that looks for .old extension Post 302473624 by Joey12 on Sunday 21st of November 2010 09:28:20 PM
Old 11-21-2010
script that looks for .old extension
Hey guys I have to make a script that takes one argument, the name of a directory, and adds the extension ".old" to all visible files in the directory that don't already have it.

I made one that loops through the file names and uses a grep to see if the extension .old is there and then renames it like this:

Code:
for filename in $(ls "$1")
do
   echo $filename | grep '\.old$' > /dev/null
   if [ $? != 0 ]
      then mv $1/$filename $1/$filename.old
   fi
done

Now I have to Use a for loop to go through the filenames in the directory. But, only loop through the filenames that do not have a ".old" extension. Inside this loop I have to rename the file to the new name. Anyone have any idea how I would do this?
 

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LEARN ABOUT DEBIAN

extend

extend(1)						      General Commands Manual							 extend(1)

NAME

       extend -- produce an extended elevation from a .3d file

SYNOPSIS

       extend [--specfile configuration .espec file]   input .3d file [output .3d file]

Description
	      Note:

	      The extend program can also work on Compass .plt (as can aven and any other Survex program which reads .3d files).

       If  no  specfile  is  given,  extend  starts  with  the highest station marked as an entrance which has at least one underground survey leg
       attached to it.	If there are no such stations, the highest deadend station in the survey (or the highest station if there are no deadends)
       is used.  Extend puts the first station on the left, then folds each leg out individually to the right, breaking loops arbitrarily (usually
       at junctions).

       If the output filename is not specified, extend bases the output filename on the input filename, but  ending  "_extend.3d".   For  example,
       extend deep_pit.3d produces an extended elevation called deep_pit_extend.3d.

       This approach suffices for simple caves or sections of cave, but for more complicated situations human intervention is required.  More com-
       plex sections of cave can be handled with a specfile giving directions to switch the direction of extension  between  left  and	right,	to
       explicitly specify the start station, or to break the extension at particular stations or legs.

       The specfile is in a format similar to cavern's data format:

       ;This is a comment

       ; start the elevation at station entrance.a
       *start entrance.a  ;this is a comment after a command

       ; start extending leftwards from station half-way-down.5
       *eleft half-way-down.5

       ; change direction of extension at further-down.8
       *eswap further-down.8

       ; extend right from further-down.junction, but only for
       ; the leg joining it to very-deep.1, other legs continuing
       ; as before
       *eright further-down.junction  very-deep.1

       ; break the survey at station side-loop.4
       *break side-loop.4

       ; break survey at station side-loop.junction but only
       ; for leg going to complex-loop.2
       *break side-loop.junction complex-loop.2

       This  approach  requires  some  trial  and  error, but gives useful results for many caves.  The most complex systems would benefit from an
       interactive interface to select and view the breaks and switches of direction.

See Also
       3dtopos(1), aven(1), cad3d(1), cavern(1), diffpos(1), sorterr(1), svxedit(1)

																	 extend(1)
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