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Old 12-05-2011
Find and move files parsed from cvs file

I need help with a bash script.
We have a directory of files which need to be renamed and moved to another directory based on filename information in a cvs file.

The contents of the cvs file are as follows:
Code:
A102345,abc123
A102347,dfg475

Where dfg475 is the basename without extension

Our source folder is:
Code:
Old/A/ABC/abc123.ai
Old/A/ABC/abc123.pdf
Old/D/DFG/dfg475.ai
Old/D/DFG/dfg475.pdf

We need to find abc123.ai and abc123.pdf...
and move them to New directory while renaming them:
A102345_abc123.ai and A102345_abc123.pdf

The resulting destination folder should look like:
Code:
New/A102345_abc123.ai
New/A102345_abc123.pdf
New/A102347_dfg475.ai
New/A102347_dfg475.pdf

I'm stuck at the first step of trying to find the files by parsing the csv file.

Last edited by Lloyd Boyette; 12-05-2011 at 04:02 PM.. Reason: Code tags!
# 2  
Old 12-05-2011
Can you explain the logic to construct the new prefix (A102345/A102347)?
# 3  
Old 12-05-2011
The old files "abc123" are referenced in a new database solution which assigns them a new name "A102345". We need to rename the file appending the new prefix while retaining the old name so we will be able to search the file system for either the new prefix or the old name. The old name consisted of logical expression of customer "abc" and order "123". The new forced name "A102345" lacks any such intelligence.
# 4  
Old 12-05-2011
If the construction of the new name is assigned by a database solution, how can we provide you a solution if we do not know it?
# 5  
Old 12-05-2011
I think they're just obtained from the CSV file.

---------- Post updated at 03:30 PM ---------- Previous update was at 03:24 PM ----------

Try this:
Code:
while IFS="," read NEWNAME OLDNAME
do
        UPPER=$(echo "$OLDNAME" | tr '[a-z]' '[A-Z]')
        for EXT in ai pdf
        do
                if [ -f Old/${UPPER:0:1}/${UPPER:0:3}/${OLDNAME}.${EXT} ]
                then
                        echo mv Old/${UPPER:0:1}/${UPPER:0:3}/${OLDNAME}.${EXT} New/${NEWNAME}_${OLDNAME}.${EXT}
                fi
        done

        fi
done < file.csv

Remove the 'echo' once you know it does what you want.
# 6  
Old 12-05-2011
Quote:
Originally Posted by Shell_Life
If the construction of the new name is assigned by a database solution, how can we provide you a solution if we do not know it?
The database generates the cvs file which we need to parse line by line.
The prefix to the new name is contained in the first field of the cvs file.
The second field in the cvs file is the basename of the original files minus extension.

Below is my novice and vain attempts thus far:
Code:
#!/bin/bash
INPUT=~/New_Names.csv
OLDIFS=$IFS
IFS=","
[ ! -f $INPUT ] & while read new old
do
#echo $old
find ~/Desktop/Arts/ -name "$old*" >> Results.txt
#previous command dose not produce results.
#would rather pipe search results to xargs & mv instead of outputing to .txt
###
#following command is an attempt to mv the files from the search results to New directory renaming
#them appending $new field data of csv to beginning of file names.
for f in `cat Results.txt`; do mv ./"$f" "./New/${$new%f}";
done <$INPUT
IFS=$OLDIFS


Last edited by Franklin52; 01-28-2012 at 04:15 AM.. Reason: Please use code tags for code and data samples, thank you
# 7  
Old 12-05-2011
Here is one possible solution:
Code:
#!/usr/bin/ksh
typeset -u mFirst
typeset -u mPref
IFS=','
while read mFld1 mFld2; do
  mFirst=$(echo ${mFld2} | cut -c1)
  mPref=$(echo ${mFld2} | cut -c1-3)
  mNewFN=${mFld1}'_'${mFld2}
  mv /Old/${mFirst}/${mPref}/${mFld2}.ai /New/${mNewFN}.ai
  mv /Old/${mFirst}/${mPref}/${mFld2}.pdf /New/${mNewFN}.pdf
done < Inp_File

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