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Top Forums UNIX for Dummies Questions & Answers Bash script to execute a program to rename files Post 302620157 by Scrutinizer on Saturday 7th of April 2012 09:09:35 AM
Old 04-07-2012
In that script you need to call the program foobar for every foo file in a directory, so assuming these files have an extension of .foo you would need to do something like this:

Code:
cd somedir
for file in *.foo
do
  /path/to/foobar "$file"
done

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LEARN ABOUT DEBIAN

smd-client

smd-client(1)						 Sync Mail Dir (smd) documentation					     smd-client(1)

NAME

       smd-client - receives diffs and performs actions

SYNOPSIS

       smd-client [-v|--verbose] [-d|--dry-run] [-t|--translator]
	     [-l|--local-sync] [--rename-only]
	     [--override-db dbf] endpoint mailboxes

DESCRIPTION

       smd-client needs to know a name (endpoint) for the client (that must not be used by others) and a list of mailboxes (directories).

       smd-client  waits  on  stdin  a mail dir diff. It attempts to execute these actions, eventually asking data printing commands on stdout and
       expecting the data on stdin.

OPTIONS

       -t --translator
	      Specify a program to translate remote mailbox names to local ones. Note that the translator 'cat' (the identity  program)  is  opti-
	      mized away

       -l --local-sync
	      Local synchronization, no changes is made to the db-file since smd-server takes care of it

       --rename-only
	      Do not synchronize the mailboxes but generate the script '~/smd-rename.sh' to uniform the files names in the mailbox

       --override-db dbf
	      Use dbf as the db-file

       -v --verbose
	      Increase program verbosity (printed on stderr)

       -d --dry-run
	      Do not perform any action for real

NOTES

       smd-client is a low level utility. You should use higher level tools like smd-pull(1) and smd-push(1)

SEE ALSO

       mddiff(1), smd-server(1), smd-pull(1), smd-push(1)

AUTHOR

       Enrico Tassi <gares@fettunta.org>

								   11 June 2012 						     smd-client(1)
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