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Top Forums Shell Programming and Scripting Problem with find Post 302870861 by tempestas on Tuesday 5th of November 2013 04:41:42 AM
Old 11-05-2013
Hello,

Quote:
But, trust us, the script you showed us will not do anything at all like what you seem to want this script to do.
I am a bit shocked. It's been a while since I have programmed but usually my programs worked in the end. Have I really forgotten everything?

Anyways, here is what I wanna do:
I have a folder structure looking like this:

Code:
./Allfolders/M++ller Bert/xx M++ller EV.pdf
./Allfolders/M++ller Bert/xx M++ller.pdf
./Allfolders/N+ñme Firstname + Secondname Secondfirstname/xx Naeme + Secondname.pdf
./Allfolders/N+ñme Firstname + Secondname Secondfirstname/xx Naeme + Secondname EV.pdf
./Allfolders/Random Na-me/xx Random EV.pdf
./Allfolders/Random Na-me/xx Random.pdf
./Allfolders/Specialist S+Âhnke/xx GV Specialist.pdf
./Allfolders/Specialist S+Âhnke/xx Specialist.pdf
./scripts/list_rename.sh
./scripts/rename.sh

The result should look like this:
Code:
./Allfolders/Mueller_Bert/xx_EV_Mueller.pdf
./Allfolders/Mueller_Bert/xx_V_Mueller_AB_20130220.pdf
./Allfolders/Naeme_Firstname/xx_V_Naeme_CD_20100119.pdf
./Allfolders/Naeme_Firstname/xx_EV_Naeme.pdf
./Allfolders/Random_Na-me/xx_EV_Random.pdf
./Allfolders/Random_Na-me/xx_V_Random_CD_20070315.pdf
./Allfolders/Specialist S+Âhnke/xx_GV_Specialist.pdf
./Allfolders/Specialist S+Âhnke/xx_V_Specialist_AB_20090917.pdf
./scripts/list_rename.sh
./scripts/rename.sh

My attempt of a script is this:
Code:
#!/bin/bash
pathscripts="$PWD"
cd ..
cd Allfolders
if [[ ! -d $1 ]]
	then
	echo "$1 does not exist. Exiting..."
	echo "check $1" >> ../scripts/logfile.txt
	exit 1
	else
		mv "$1/" $2
		lastname=`echo "$2" | cut -d'_' -f1`;
		d=`echo "$3" | cut -d'.' -f1`
		m=`echo "$3" | cut -d'.' -f2`
		y=`echo "$3" | cut -d'.' -f3`
		cd $2
		for i in *.pdf
		do
		if find . -name "EV"
			then
			mv "$i" xx_EV_${lastname}.pdf
		elif find . -name "*GV*"
			then
			mv "$i" xx_GV_${lastname}.pdf
		else
			mv "$i" xx_V_${lastname}_$3_$y$m$d.pdf 
		fi
		done	
fi
cd $pathscripts

And the respective file containing the arguments:
Code:
#!/bin/bash
./rename.sh "M++ller Bert" Mueller_Bert 20.02.2013 AB
./rename.sh "N+ñme Firstname + Secondname Secondfirstname" Naeme_Firstname 19.01.2010 CD
./rename.sh "Random Na-me" Random_Name 15.03.2007 CD
./rename.sh "Specialist S+Âhnke" Specialist_Soehnke 17.09.2009 AB

I would have preferred a more general approach just like:
Code:
for folder in Allfolders/*; do
  if [[ -d "$folder" ]]; then
	newname=`echo "$folder" | sed 's/ /_/g;s/ä/ae/g;s/Ä/Ae/g;s/ü/ue/g;s/Ü/Ue/g;s/ö/oe/g;s/Ö/Oe/g;s/ß/ss/g;s/+/-/g;'`
    mv "$folder" "$newname"
  fi
done

But this does not work due to encoding problems. I took the folder structure zipped from a windows server. If I unpack it using the Mac OSX tools, it would ignore the umlauts, just convert spaces to "_". So, I unpacked the zip folder on a windows machine and so I can at least convert the umlauts.

I hope I could make it clear what the situation is and what I want to get in the end.

Thank you SO much for advices and help!

tempestas

PS: the .pdf files are created from scans, i.e. these are images.
 

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