03-31-2004
You will need to use:
Rename File1 File2 File3 '*.html'
otherwise if you had "one.html" and "two.html" in your current directory, they would replace *.html on the command line.
Your error arises from your line:
item = file
This cause your script to try to run a program or script called "item" with two args, "=" and "file".
As zazzybob points out you must lose the spaces.
I assume you mean
item=$file
At that point you will be setting "item" in your loop. When you exit the loop, you then check the last value only to see if it exists.
Many shells support -e, and that may be superior to the -f that zazzybob suggests.
Is there any reason to sh? A more powerful shell like ksh or bash would make this easier.
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NAME
dh_compress - compress files and fix symlinks in package build directories
SYNOPSIS
dh_compress [debhelperoptions] [-Xitem] [-A] [file...]
DESCRIPTION
dh_compress is a debhelper program that is responsible for compressing the files in package build directories, and makes sure that any
symlinks that pointed to the files before they were compressed are updated to point to the new files.
By default, dh_compress compresses files that Debian policy mandates should be compressed, namely all files in usr/share/info,
usr/share/man, files in usr/share/doc that are larger than 4k in size, (except the copyright file, .html and other web files, image files,
and files that appear to be already compressed based on their extensions), and all changelog files. Plus PCF fonts underneath
usr/share/fonts/X11/
FILES
debian/package.compress
These files are deprecated.
If this file exists, the default files are not compressed. Instead, the file is ran as a shell script, and all filenames that the shell
script outputs will be compressed. The shell script will be run from inside the package build directory. Note though that using -X is a
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OPTIONS
-Xitem, --exclude=item
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compression. You may use this option multiple times to build up a list of things to exclude.
-A, --all
Compress all files specified by command line parameters in ALL packages acted on.
file ...
Add these files to the list of files to compress.
CONFORMS TO
Debian policy, version 3.0
SEE ALSO
debhelper(7)
This program is a part of debhelper.
AUTHOR
Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org>
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