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Top Forums Shell Programming and Scripting Calling specific characters from a find variable Post 303029453 by scribling on Saturday 26th of January 2019 12:37:08 PM
Old 01-26-2019
Without trying that code, it looks to be exactly what I need. Thank you. I'm fairly confident it will work. Also, I can easily use an underscore instead of a space, which I will per your recommendation.
I didn't mean that I was frustrated by this page and the people helping me, what I meant that was I was frustrated trying to work it out in the shell, alone. Sorry for that.
I really appreciate everyone's help, although I didn't think it would be this much trouble. I would imagine what I'm seeking to do would be fairly common.

Ok, this code,
Code:
find ../ -type d -name 'Renders' | while read -r path ; do ln -s "$path" "${path:53:14}_Renders” ; done

results in nothing. I just get a ">." I'm sure there's a name for the non-result but I don't know what it is.
I'm running this as a single line from a bash shell. Should it go in a script? I'll try that.

Well, putting it into a script and running that, I discovered that the quotes didn't match, but once I fixed that, it works!

Thank you, Don and everyone, for your help.
 

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NAME

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SYNOPSIS

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DESCRIPTION

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       -add
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       -remove
	   Removes the surfraw config code

       -sys
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