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Top Forums UNIX for Dummies Questions & Answers Mass directory creation? Post 78552 by AeroEngy on Wednesday 20th of July 2005 01:20:35 PM
Old 07-20-2005
Question Mass directory creation?
I have a couple thousand data files that all have to have there own directory named exactly the same as the file name. Then the file needs to be moved to that directory. For example files test1.mat, test2.mat, test3.mat in directory X need to have directories test1, test2, test3 created underneath X and then the corresponding files moved into there respective directory. Just for you information the file names are much more complicated than just test1 so typing them all out would be time consumming. Is there a way that I could write a script or something that could read the file names, create all the directories, and move all the files at once.

I am not very experienced in the Unix enviroment so any help would be appreciated. If it helps Matlab is installed on the Unix Machine.
 

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rendercheck

rendercheck(1)						      General Commands Manual						    rendercheck(1)

NAME

       rendercheck - simple tests of the X Render extension.

SYNOPSIS

       rendercheck [-d|--display display] [-i|--iter] [--sync] [-t|--tests test1,test2,test3,...] [-o|--ops op1,op2,op3,...]
       [-v|--verbose] [--minimalrendering]

DESCRIPTION

       rendercheck is a set of simple tests of the X Render extension.	It is designed for authors of Render implementations in X Servers.

OPTIONS

       -d|--display display
	      Specifies the display to test against.

       -i|--iter iterations
	      Specifies  the number of times to repeat each operation before sampling results.	Some X Servers may behave differently (hardware vs
	      software rendering paths) depending on the previous operations done, so this may be used to influence the server's choices.

       --sync Enables synchronous xlib operation, for debugging.

       -t|--tests test1,test2,test3...
	      Enables only a specific subset of the possible tests.  Test names include  fill,	dcoords,  scoords,  mcoords,  tscoords,  tmcoords,
	      blend, composite, cacomposite, gradients, repeat, triangles, and bug7366.  Names must be separated by commas and have no spaces.

       -f|--formats format1,format2,format3...
	      Enables  only  a	specific  subset  of the possible formats.  Only formats listed in the server-supported format list are available.
	      Names must be separated by commas and have no spaces.

       -o|--ops
	      Enables only a specific subset of the Render operators.

       -v|--verbose
	      Enables verbose printing of information on tests run, and successes and failures.

       --minimalrendering
	      Disables copying of offscreen destinations to the window, which is on by default to provide the user with visual feedback.

BUGS

       Several	limitations  are  documented  in  the  TODO  file  accompanying  the  source.	Please	report	any  further  bugs  you  find	to
       http://bugs.freedesktop.org/.

AUTHORS

       Eric Anholt, with help from Keith Packard.

																    rendercheck(1)
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