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Top Forums Shell Programming and Scripting Remove two types of files from a directory Post 302549995 by Corona688 on Wednesday 24th of August 2011 11:06:13 AM

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Code:

# Get the date in YYYY-MM-DD.  See 'man date'
DATESTAMP=`date +%Y-%m-%d`

# Find all relevant files, and print them one per line into a pipe.
find $SOURCE_DIR \( -name "*.log" -o -name "*.out" ) |
# Read each filename from the pipe into the FILE variable one by one
while read FILE
do
        # Converts /path/from/file.ext into file.ext
        BASE=`basename "$FILE"`
        # write file.ext into a temp file, overwriting whatever's there already.
        # $$ is a special variable meaning "the shell's PID".
        # Each program running on the system gets its own unique number, or PID.
        echo "$BASE" >/tmp/$$
        # read the string "file.ext" into BASE and EXT, splitting on "."
        # so that BASE="file" and EXT="ext"
        IFS="." read BASE EXT < /tmp/$$
        # Move and rename /path/from/file.ext into /path/to/file.date.ext
        echo mv "$FILE" "/path/to/$BASE.$DATESTAMP.$EXT"
done
# Delete the temporary file.
rm -f /tmp/$$

Depending on your shell, it may be possible get away with not using basename and not writing the string into a temporary file, which would make the program faster, but this more basic code should work in most common shells.

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DH_MOVEFILES(1) 						     Debhelper							   DH_MOVEFILES(1)

NAME

       dh_movefiles - move files out of debian/tmp into subpackages

SYNOPSIS

       dh_movefiles [debhelperoptions] [--sourcedir=dir] [-Xitem] [file...]

DESCRIPTION

       dh_movefiles is a debhelper program that is responsible for moving files out of debian/tmp or some other directory and into other package
       build directories. This may be useful if your package has a Makefile that installs everything into debian/tmp, and you need to break that
       up into subpackages.

       Note: dh_install is a much better program, and you are recommended to use it instead of dh_movefiles.

FILES

       debian/package.files
	   Lists the files to be moved into a package, separated by whitespace. The filenames listed should be relative to debian/tmp/. You can
	   also list directory names, and the whole directory will be moved.

OPTIONS

       --sourcedir=dir
	   Instead of moving files out of debian/tmp (the default), this option makes it move files out of some other directory. Since the entire
	   contents of the sourcedir is moved, specifying something like --sourcedir=/ is very unsafe, so to prevent mistakes, the sourcedir must
	   be a relative filename; it cannot begin with a `/'.

       -Xitem, --exclude=item
	   Exclude files that contain item anywhere in their filename from being installed.

       file ...
	   Lists files to move. The filenames listed should be relative to debian/tmp/. You can also list directory names, and the whole directory
	   will be moved. It is an error to list files here unless you use -p, -i, or -a to tell dh_movefiles which subpackage to put them in.

NOTES

       Note that files are always moved out of debian/tmp by default (even if you have instructed debhelper to use a compatibility level higher
       than one, which does not otherwise use debian/tmp for anything at all). The idea behind this is that the package that is being built can be
       told to install into debian/tmp, and then files can be moved by dh_movefiles from that directory. Any files or directories that remain are
       ignored, and get deleted by dh_clean later.

SEE ALSO

       debhelper(7)

       This program is a part of debhelper.

AUTHOR

       Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org>

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