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Top Forums Shell Programming and Scripting [SOLVED] help clean up file movement script Post 302703195 by Corona688 on Wednesday 19th of September 2012 12:16:11 PM
Old 09-19-2012
#/bash is wrong. It needs to be #!/bin/bash.

That's a useless use of ls and dangerous use of backticks.

You can use the built-in select menu to make things simpler.

Code:
#!/bin/bash


for FILE in /mnt/storage/media/temp/*
do
        [ -f "$FILE" ] || continue # Ignore non-files

        # Special variable which controls select menu prompt
        PS3="Move $FILE to /mnt/storage/media/Video/?"

        # 'select' is a loop like 'while', but prints and does a menu inside
        select DIR in movies mike television quit skip
        do
                [ -z "$DIR" ] && continue # User picked a bad option
                [ "$DIR" = "quit" ] && exit # User wants to quit
                [ "$DIR" = "skip" ] && break # User wants to skip this file

                echo mv "$FILE" "/mnt/storage/media/Video/$DIR/"
                break
        done
done

Last edited by Corona688; 09-19-2012 at 01:54 PM..
 

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