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Top Forums Shell Programming and Scripting Calling specific characters from a find variable Post 303029401 by Don Cragun on Friday 25th of January 2019 09:41:24 PM
Old 01-25-2019
Quote:
Originally Posted by scribling
Thank you for taking the time to reply, but I really don't understand what the big confusion is.

I need to search several directories for a specific directory name, which will occur in every directory and then make a symlink in the working directory and append it's name with a part of the file name that will tell me where it came from. Those characters are 53:14 ... I'm very sorry my "example" was only nine - it was only an example as I said.



The deal is that these directories are 5 or 6 levels deep in each and I have to go to them often and I'm sick of digging through each folder each time. If I have smylinks in one directory that tells me where they came from I have a single click option to get to them.



I understand that find doesn't expand a variable or whatever which is why I'm asking for help on how to do it.

I'm sorry I haven't done this in a while so I'm a bit rusty.



I need the result of find to be set as a variable that I can extract 53:14 from and use it in the file name of the symlink.


I work in production. We have hundreds of shots and each one has a render directory. I would like to make one directory that has symlinks to all of them with their names which happen to be in the path at 53:14.
The final result would look exactly like this: BT_907_725_150 Renders



I don't think I can be any more clear than that.

I'm really frustrated, sorry.
You have at least three people who have responded to your question asking for a very easy to provide sample of the pathnames you're trying to process and the corresponding ln commands you hope to create from those pathnames. Imagine how frustrated we are to see that after being asked for this data four times you still refuse to give us any sample data to work with.

If you would have given us the information I requested in post #2 in this thread 22 hours ago, I'm absolutely positive that you would have had a working script at least 14 hours ago. Since you refuse to give us the information we need to be sure we have something that will meet your needs, maybe we should all just give up. Smilie

Please show us a couple of sample pathnames produced by:
Code:
find . -type d -name 'blablabla'

(presumably replacing blablabla by whatever directory filename or filename pattern you're really using), and show us the corresponding exact ln commands you hope to produce from those pathnames.

If you're unable to meet this simple request in your next post, I'll close this thread, remember the amount of time I've wasted trying to help you, and never respond to any of your future posts again.
 

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hal-find

hal-find(1M)						  System Administration Commands					      hal-find(1M)

NAME

       hal-find, hal-find-by-capability, hal-find-by-property - search HAL global device list

SYNOPSIS

       hal-find-by-capability --capability capability [--help]
	[--verbose] [--version]

       hal-find-by-property  --key key --string value [--help]
	[--verbose] [--version]

DESCRIPTION

       The  hal-find  commands, hal-find-by-capability and hal-find-by-property, search the Hardware Abstraction Layer (HAL) device list by speci-
       fied criteria and displays results on the standard output. hal-find-by-capability searches by capability, such as  volume  or  block.  hal-
       find-by-property searches by property, such as block.is_volume or volume.disc.has_audio.

OPTIONS

       The following options are supported:

       --capability capability	  HAL device capability to search for.

       --help			  Display list of options.

       --key key		  The key to the property that is the basis of the search.

       --string value		  The string value associated with the property that is the basis of the search.

       --verbose		  Verbose mode.

       --version		  Display version and exit.

ATTRIBUTES

       See attributes(5) for descriptions of the following attributes:

       +-----------------------------+-----------------------------+
       |      ATTRIBUTE TYPE	     |	    ATTRIBUTE VALUE	   |
       +-----------------------------+-----------------------------+
       |Availability		     |SUNWhalr			   |
       +-----------------------------+-----------------------------+
       |Interface Stability	     |Volatile			   |
       +-----------------------------+-----------------------------+

SEE ALSO

       hald(1M), attributes(5), hal(5)

SunOS 5.11							    22 Aug 2006 						      hal-find(1M)
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