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Top Forums Shell Programming and Scripting Finding files in directory with similar names Post 302898023 by neutronscott on Thursday 17th of April 2014 06:45:47 PM
Old 04-17-2014
ok we'll need to make some things lowercase and also set nocasematch option. this script requires bash4 (but it kinda already did with assoc arrays)

Code:
#!/bin/bash

declare -A max=()
shopt -s nocaseglob

# first, find highest.
for f in *rev*.pdf; do
        f=${f,,} #make lowercase
        base=${f%_rev*}
        rev=${f##*_rev}
        rev=${rev%.pdf}

        [[ -z "${max[$base]}" ]] && max["$base"]=$rev
        (( rev > "${max[$base]}" )) && max["$base"]=$rev
done

for prefix in "${!max[@]}"; do
        for f in "$prefix"*; do
                n=${f,,} #make lowercase
                rev=${n##*_rev}
                rev=${rev%.pdf}
                if (( rev < "${max[$prefix]}" )); then
                        echo mv "$f" /someplace/for/old/files
                fi
        done
done

Last edited by neutronscott; 04-17-2014 at 07:53 PM..
 

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