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Top Forums Shell Programming and Scripting Shell Script for renaming and moving Files - Easy? Post 302963105 by Don Cragun on Wednesday 23rd of December 2015 08:38:26 PM
Old 12-23-2015
Repeating some of what durden_tyler said and adding some additional notes: You need to be much clearer about what you are trying to do and what you have done.

The find utility is used to search a file hierarchy for various criteria. In the sample you provided, you will get a syntax error if the directory in which you run this command contains more than one file with a name ending with the string .txt, will search the file hierarchy for a file with the same name as the file in current directory with a named ending in .txt if there is exactly one file in the current directory with a name ending in .txt, or will find all of the files in the file hierarchy rooted in the current directory with names ending in .txt if there aren't any files in the current directory with a name ending with .txt.

Once you have found a file with a name ending in .txt, how do you determine which file with a name ending in .cad should be renamed?

After renaming that .cad file (and moving or copying it to another directory), do you really want to remove every file in the current directory (including the .txt that you haven't moved or copied to anywhere else) even if there are other .txt and/or .cad files remaining in that directory or in subdirectories under that directory?

And, to what directory do you want to move the renamed .cad files?

We'll be happy to help you figure out how to write a bash script that will run on a Linux operating system if you give us a clear description of what you're trying to do. Without a clear description, we can make wild guesses that could waste a lot of your time and ours.
 

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