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Top Forums Shell Programming and Scripting Mv or cp with a . (dot)? Post 303008410 by hicksd8 on Friday 1st of December 2017 05:31:30 AM

12-01-2017

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I appreciate that I am coming to this thread very late and you seem to have some very qualified expert help here already. Therefore, I think this is likely to be my only post on this thread. However, I would like to contribute the following notes:

1. You are confusing filename and path. In /a/b/c/xyz, the/a/b/c is the path and xyz is the filename. The leading / means the path starts from the top of the system.

2. Without the leading / the path starts from the directory you are currently in, ie, there is a directory a pre-existing, with a b directory under that pre-existing, and a c directory under that pre-existing.

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Originally Posted by scribling

mv ./bla ../fa/la/.bla - doesn't work. I've tried all sorts of bracketing and that doesn't work.

I don't think you have told us all what OS you are using but it's unlikely that your (failing) 'mv' command is capable of creating the directories 'fa' and 'la' whilst moving the file. I think your destination path MUST pre-exist before you issue your 'mv' command.

I just wanted to make that point. That may, or may not, be your issue.

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get_filename

get_filename(3alleg4)						  Allegro manual					     get_filename(3alleg4)

NAME

       get_filename - Returns a pointer to the filename portion of a path. Allegro game programming library.

SYNOPSIS

       #include <allegro.h>

       char *get_filename(const char *path);

DESCRIPTION

       Finds  out  the filename portion of a completely specified file path. Both `' and `/' are recognized as directory separators under DOS and
       Windows.  However, only `/' is recognized as directory separator under other platforms. Example:

	  get_executable_name(name, sizeof(name));
	  allegro_message("Running `%s'
", get_filename(name));

       Note that Allegro won't perform any IO operations during the verification.  This means that if you have `/a/path/like/this/', which doesn't
       have  a filename, the function will return a pointer to the trailing null character. However, if you have `/a/path/like/this', Allegro will
       return a pointer to `this', even if it is a valid directory.

RETURN VALUE

       Returns a pointer to the portion of `path' where the filename starts, or the beginning of `path' if no valid filename is found (eg. you are
       processing a path with backslashes under Unix).

SEE ALSO

       get_extension(3alleg4), put_backslash(3alleg4), replace_filename(3alleg4), exmidi(3alleg4)

Allegro 							   version 4.4.2					     get_filename(3alleg4)