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Top Forums UNIX for Dummies Questions & Answers find mv and create directory structure Post 302494889 by fistikuffs on Tuesday 8th of February 2011 06:52:05 PM
Old 02-08-2011
Cool it was the spaces in the filename, it's working now once i remove the spaces with this script i got from ubuntuforums.org
Code:
#!/bin/bash

IFS='

'

j=`find $1 -printf "%d\n" | sort -u | tail -n 1`

echo "Max dir depth:" $j

for (( i=0; i<=j ; i++ ))

do

  for name in `find -mindepth $i -maxdepth $i -iname "* *" -printf "%p\n"`

  do

    newname=`echo "$name" | tr " " "_"`

    echo "$name" "$newname"

    mv "$name" "$newname"

  done

done

Then i just used ctsgnb's suggestion above and it worked a treat. The "rm" part doesn't work but i can do that manually so no worried. Thanks ctsgnbSmilie

@methyl: thannks dude i wish it was a simple as that example but it doesn't work for me. I get a "paths must precede expression" error probably due to the os. Thanks for helping outSmilie
 

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MTAIL(1)							   User Commands							  MTAIL(1)

NAME
mtail - tail variant designed for web developers monitoring logfiles SYNOPSIS
mtail [options] <file>... DESCRIPTION
MonkeyTail allows a user to tail multiple files on both local and remote hosts and clearly marks inactivity by putting 5 newlines in the output whenever a pause in output over 3 seconds is detected. MonkeyTail is implemented a fairly simple wrapper script around standard tail, ssh, and sudo. OPTIONS
-q Quiet mode --quiet " " -n Output the last N lines of each file before tailing (defaults to 0) <file>... Files to tail. These can specified in the following ways: @<groupname> - expands the group (from .mtailrc) to a list of files to tail <filename> - tails a local file. +<filename> - attempts to sudo and tail a local file (will prompt for pwd if required). <remotehost>:<filename> - attempts to invoke tail via ssh on a remote host. +<remotehost>:<filename> - attempts to invoke sudo tail via ssh on a remote host (will prompt for pwd if required). SEE ALSO
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