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Top Forums Shell Programming and Scripting Bash to add portion of text to files in directory using numerical match Post 302995164 by cmccabe on Sunday 2nd of April 2017 11:59:42 AM
Old 04-02-2017
That fixed it, but now I have the same problem I did before. The bash, as is works great as long as all 3 files are in the directory /home/cmccabe/QC/percent.

Since I run a process on each file, after it gets renamed it is moved to the directory. When the next filename gets renamed, the other one gets duplicated. If there is a third the first filename repeats 3 times the second filename duplicated and third is fine.

So if in /home/cmccabe/QC/percent

Code:
00-0000_Last-First_fbn1.txt

code executes a second time:
Code:
00-0000_Last-First_Last-First_fbn1.txt  ---- file already in dir
01-0101_LastN-FirstN_fbn1.txt

code executes a third time:
Code:
00-0000_Last-First_Last-First_Last-First_fbn1.txt  ---- file already in dir
01-0101_LastN-FirstN_LastN-FirstNfbn1.txt   --- this is the 2nd file in dir
02-0202_La-Fi_fbn1.txt

Maybe I just need to only execute the command once after all 3 files are in the directory? If a file is in the directory already it has been renamed already but I'm not sure how to prevent the duplication. Thank you Smilie.
 

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If bash is started with the name rbash, or the -r option is supplied at invocation, the shell becomes restricted. A restricted shell is used to set up an environment more controlled than the standard shell. It behaves identically to bash with the exception that the follow- ing are disallowed or not performed: o changing directories with cd o setting or unsetting the values of SHELL, PATH, ENV, or BASH_ENV o specifying command names containing / o specifying a file name containing a / as an argument to the . builtin command o specifying a filename containing a slash as an argument to the -p option to the hash builtin command o importing function definitions from the shell environment at startup o parsing the value of SHELLOPTS from the shell environment at startup o redirecting output using the >, >|, <>, >&, &>, and >> redirection operators o using the exec builtin command to replace the shell with another command o adding or deleting builtin commands with the -f and -d options to the enable builtin command o using the enable builtin command to enable disabled shell builtins o specifying the -p option to the command builtin command o turning off restricted mode with set +r or set +o restricted. These restrictions are enforced after any startup files are read. When a command that is found to be a shell script is executed, rbash turns off any restrictions in the shell spawned to execute the script. SEE ALSO
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