I have created a script to rename all files in a directory by appending the file name with username (who created the file), the date it was created. For example, "apple.doc" should be renamed to "johnFeb23apple.doc" where "john" is the owner and "Feb23" is file created date. It works fine with file names without spaces. but there are few issues I don't know how to fix.
First, Here's my script:
Code:
#!/bin/bash
for i in *
do
newname=$(ls -l ${i} | awk '{ print $3 $6 $7 $9 }')
mv $i $newname
done
1. When it met a file with spaces, e.g. like "fff eee.xls" it gives the following error and won't rename that file:
Code:
ls: cannot access fff: No such file or directory
ls: cannot access eee.xls: No such file or directory
mv: cannot stat `fff': No such file or directory
2. I need to run this script in the parent directory (it's sub directory contains all files to be renamed). How do I make that change in my script? (adding path of sub directory where all files stored)
script is in "/tommy/" directory and files in "/tommy/data/" directory
Please help me. Thanks in advance...
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LEARN ABOUT DEBIAN
openscad-testrun
OPENSCAD-TESTRUN(1) General Commands Manual OPENSCAD-TESTRUN(1)NAME
openscad-testrun - set up and run the OpenSCAD test suite
SYNOPSIS
openscad-testrun [options]
DESCRIPTION
This manual page documents briefly the openscad-testrun command.
openscad-testrun is a script that sets up a directory in which the OpenSCAD test suite (implemented in ctest) can be run by creating sym-
links to the system locations of the input data, and runs it. The created directory is not removed, but will contain the test results in
addition to the symlinks.
It is required as the test suite in its original form expects all the test input and output data in relative locations, and the typical
user has no write access to where the data resides. Future changes to the test suite might make it more flexible, removing the need for
this script.
OPTIONS -d directory, --directory directory
Set up the tests in a directory called directory. By default, this is generated from the current date and time like openscad-
test-2012-02-15_13:37.
-n, --dry-run
Do not run the test suite, just set it up.
All additional arguments are passed on to ctest.
AUTHOR
The OpenSCAD test suite was written by Clifford Wolf, Marius Kintel, and others. The openscad-testrun script was written by chrysn.
This manual page was written by chrysn <chrysn@fsfe.org>, for the Debian project (and may be used by others).
2012-02-16 OPENSCAD-TESTRUN(1)
02-24-2012
Bash script to rename files in a directory
