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Top Forums Shell Programming and Scripting While read line loop Post 302952905 by TiedCone on Monday 24th of August 2015 08:07:42 AM
Old 08-24-2015
I have a jpg files in /media/cache/. Each jpg coresponds to its movie file as it its cover so I need to create rule which will copy jpg from cache to i.e. /media/video where movie exists. That copied jpg has to be also renamed and name is given after PATH: in that text file.
This rule has to do its job for every line in this file.
Hope this makes it more clear.

edit:

More or less it works with clue you gave me. I just modified my text file a bit:
Code:
sed -i 's/avi FILE/jpg FILE/g' $FILE
sed -i 's/mkv FILE/jpg FILE/g' $FILE
while read P F; do cp ${F#*:} ${P#*:}; done < $FILE

but now I have to find a way to copy files when space is inside the title. Now copy command just cut ater first occurence of space.
Last edited by TiedCone; 08-24-2015 at 09:51 AM..
 

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