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Top Forums Shell Programming and Scripting Problem with find Post 302870549 by Don Cragun on Monday 4th of November 2013 04:23:39 AM
Old 11-04-2013
Quote:
Originally Posted by tempestas
Hello,

I have trouble using the find command (I am working on Mac OSX).

Code:
for i in *.pdf
do
if find . -name "EV"
	then
	mv "$i" E-test.pdf
elif find . -name "GV"
	then
	mv "$i" G-test.pdf
else
	mv "$i" test.pdf 
fi
done

As to the use of "$i": unfortunately, the filenames contain spaces (it's not my fault, I am just clearing the mess).

My problem: even if the file name does not contain the string "EV" it is treated as such, i.e. for all the files in that folder only the first "elif" loop is executed. Where is my mistake?

Thanks a lot in advance for help!


tempestas
I think you need to explain what you're trying to do.

As long as your have search and read permission in all of the directories in the file hierarchy under your current working directory, the loop that you have is equivalent to:
Code:
for i in *.pdf
do
	mv "$i" E-test.pdf
done

which throws away all but last filename in the current directory ending with the string ".pdf" and then renames the last matching filename to be E-test.pdf, except that for each filename ending in ".pdf" it will print a list of the pathnames of all files whose final component is "EV" every time it goes through the loop. (Of course the above analysis assumes that E-test.pdf does not name an existing directory. If it is a directory, you have other problems.)
 

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qmail-queue(8)                                                System Manager's Manual                                               qmail-queue(8)

NAME

       qmail-queue - queue a mail message for delivery

SYNOPSIS

       qmail-queue

DESCRIPTION

       qmail-queue  reads a mail message from descriptor 0.  It then reads envelope information from descriptor 1.  It places the message into the
       outgoing queue for future delivery by qmail-send.

       The envelope information is an envelope sender address followed by a list of envelope recipient addresses.  The sender address is  preceded
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       recipient addresses is terminated by an extra 0 byte.  If qmail-queue sees end-of-file before the extra 0 byte, it aborts  without  placing
       the message into the queue.

       Every envelope recipient address should contain a username, an @ sign, and a fully qualified domain name.

       qmail-queue  always adds a Received line to the top of the message.  Other than this, qmail-queue does not inspect the message and does not
       enforce any restrictions on its contents.  However, the recipients probably expect to see a proper header, as described in qmail-header(5).

       Programs included with qmail which invoke qmail-queue will invoke the contents of $QMAILQUEUE instead, if that environment variable is set.

FILESYSTEM RESTRICTIONS

       qmail-queue imposes two constraints on the queue structure: each mess subdirectory must be in the same filesystem as the pid directory; and
       each todo subdirectory must be in the same filesystem as the intd directory.

EXIT CODES

       qmail-queue  does not print diagnostics.  It exits 0 if it has successfully queued the message.  It exits between 1 and 99 if it has failed
       to queue the message.

       All qmail-queue error codes between 11 and 40 indicate permanent errors:

       11   Address too long.

       31   Mail server permanently refuses to send the message to any recipients.  (Not used by qmail-queue, but can be used by programs offering
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       65   Problem with queue/intd.

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