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Top Forums Shell Programming and Scripting awk & basename puzzler - advise sought Post 302730871 by Don Cragun on Tuesday 13th of November 2012 08:22:07 PM
Old 11-13-2012
If your "ENCRYPT" command encrypts the file named by its 1st argument and stores the results in a file in the current directory with the same name, this should do what you want:
Code:
#!/bin/ksh
while read src dest
do      ENCRYPT "$src" "<encrypt password>"
        mv "$(basename "$src")" "$dest"
done < "$ELOG"

This is written using the Korn shell, but will work with any shell that accepts basic Bourne shell syntax (i.e., not csh or similar shells).

If you don't happen to be in the directory where the source file is located, passing the basename of the source file to ENCRYPT won't allow it to find your source file.
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NAME
shtool-path - GNU shtool command dealing with shell path variables SYNOPSIS
shtool path [-s|--suppress] [-r|--reverse] [-d|--dirname] [-b|--basename] [-m|--magic] [-p|--path path] str [str ...] DESCRIPTION
This command deals with shell $PATH variables. It can find a program through one or more filenames given by one or more str arguments. It prints the absolute filesystem path to the program displayed on "stdout" plus an exit code of 0 if it was really found. OPTIONS
The following command line options are available. -s, --suppress Supress output. Useful to only test whether a program exists with the help of the return code. -r, --reverse Transform a forward path to a subdirectory into a reverse path. -d, --dirname Output the directory name of str. -b, --basename Output the base name of str. -m, --magic Enable advanced magic search for ""perl"" and ""cpp"". -p, --path path Search in path. Default is to search in $PATH. EXAMPLE
# shell script awk=`shtool path -p "${PATH}:." gawk nawk awk` perl=`shtool path -m perl` cpp=`shtool path -m cpp` revpath=`shtool path -r path/to/subdir` HISTORY
The GNU shtool path command was originally written by Ralf S. Engelschall <rse@engelschall.com> in 1998 for Apache. It was later taken over into GNU shtool. SEE ALSO
shtool(1), which(1). 18-Jul-2008 shtool 2.0.8 SHTOOL-PATH.TMP(1)
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