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Top Forums Shell Programming and Scripting Shell Script for renaming and moving Files - Easy? Post 302963133 by peter1337 on Thursday 24th of December 2015 06:03:45 AM
Old 12-24-2015
Quote:
Originally Posted by durden_tyler
(1) Do you have only two files in the directory "folderxyz", as indicated in your post?
(2) Or do you have more than two?
there a different types of files, even subfolders, but just only one .txt and .cad

Quote:
Originally Posted by Don Cragun
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.
sure, i try to give my best explaning my plans in english.
i try to explain this by creating a structure with all possibilities:
Code:
myrootfolder/folder1/ #no .cad and no .txt file - can be ignored
myrootfolder/folder2/ #including .txt or .cad, but not both - can be ignored
myrootfolder/folder3/ #including both files, need to rename the .cad, move the cad to myrootfolder/finished/ and remove folder3
or
myrootfolder/folder4/folder4sub/ #including both files, need to rename the .cad, move the cad to myrootfolder/finished/ and remove folder4

 

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LEARN ABOUT DEBIAN

paps

PAPS(1) 						      General Commands Manual							   PAPS(1)

NAME

       paps - UTF-8 to PostScript converter using Pango

SYNOPSIS

       paps [options] files...

DESCRIPTION

       paps reads a UTF-8 encoded file and generates a PostScript language rendering of the file. The rendering is done by creating outline curves
       through the pango ft2 backend.

OPTIONS

       These programs follow the usual GNU command line syntax, with long options starting with  two  dashes  (`-').   A  summary  of  options	is
       included below.

       --landscape
	      Landscape output. Default is portrait.

       --columns=cl
	      Number of columns output. Default is 1.
	      Please notice this option isn't related to the terminal length as in a "80 culums terminal".

       --font=desc
	      Set the font description. Default is Monospace 12.

       --rtl  Do right to left (RTL) layout.

       --paper ps
	      Choose paper size. Known paper sizes are legal, letter and A4. Default is A4.

       Postscript points
	      Each postscript point equals to 1/72 of an inch. 36 points are 1/2 of an inch.

       --bottom-margin=bm
	      Set bottom margin. Default is 36 postscript points.

       --top-margin=tm
	      Set top margin. Default is 36 postscript points.

       --left-margin=lm
	      Set left margin. Default is 36 postscript points.

       --right-margin=rm
	      Set right margin. Default is 36 postscript points.

       --gutter-width=gw
	      Set gutter width. Default is 40 postscript points.

       --help Show summary of options.

       --header
	      Draw page header for each page.

       --markup
	      Interpret the text as pango markup.

       --lpi  Set the lines per inch. This determines the line spacing.

       --cpi  Set the characters per inch. This is an alternative method of specifying the font size.

       --stretch-chars
	      Indicates  that  characters  should be stretched in the y-direction to fill up their vertical space. This is similar to the texttops
	      behaviour.

AUTHOR

       paps was written by Dov Grobgeld <dov.grobgeld@gmail.com>.

       This manual page was written by Lior Kaplan <kaplan@debian.org>, for the Debian project (but may be used by others).

								  April  17, 2006							   PAPS(1)
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