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Top Forums Shell Programming and Scripting Calling specific characters from a find variable Post 303029459 by Don Cragun on Saturday 26th of January 2019 06:54:29 PM
Old 01-26-2019
Quote:
Originally Posted by scribling
Fantastic success! The script works even better than I'd hoped after I set some variable for other files I want links to.

Thanks so much! This code is truly awesome.
Code:
#!/bin/sh
#Variables
where='/mnt/xxxx/xxxxxx/Season_02/xx_xxx/Shots'
what='Render'

find $where -type d -name $what | while read -r path
do ln -s "$path" "${path:53:14}_$what"
done

I'm glad it is working for you.

Note, however, that this is one of those broken shell scripts that can fail miserably if the directory name assigned to where or the string assigned to what contains any <space> or <tab> characters. To make your code is safe to run even under those conditions, please consider changing your code to:
Code:
#!/bin/sh
#Variables
where='/mnt/xxxx/xxxxxx/Season_02/xx_xxx/Shots'
what='Render'

find "$where" -type d -name "$what" | while read -r path
do	ln -s "$path" "${path:53:14}_$what"
done

You might also want to ask yourself whether or not the 53 and 14 will remain constant if you change the value assigned to $where???
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