Shell Programming and Scripting

#!/bin/bash

# generate list of all folders that need to be renamed

fileList=$(/bin/ls -l /path/to/a/bunch/of/folders)

# input file of old,new folder names

folderNames="/path/to/folders_list.txt"

/bin/echo ${folderNames}

# loop through fileList and move home folder 

for i in ${fileList} ; do

newFolder=$(/usr/bin/awk -F, '/${i}/ { print $2;exit }' ${folderNames})


if [[ `/usr/bin/awk -F, '/${i}/ { print $2;exit }' ${folderNames}` == "${newFolder}" ]]

  then /bin/echo "${i} needs to be moved to ${newFolder}"
          /bin/echo "place holder for work flow mv of commands..."
  
  else /bin/echo "${i} does not have a match"
  
fi
done

exit 0

while IFS=, read -r olddir newdir; do
    newdir=${newdir%$'\r'} #remove dos line endings...?

    echo mv "$olddir" "$newdir"
done < folder_list.txt

for dir in /path/to/bunch/of/folders/*; do
    [[ -d $dir ]] || continue

    newFolder=$(awk -F, -v "olddir=$dir" '$1 == olddir {sub(/\r/,"");print $2;exit}')

    if [[ $newFolder ]]; then
        echo "got to move $dir to $newFolder"
    else
        echo "no match: $dir"
    fi
done

mute@goflex:~/test$ ls
folder_list.txt  olddir  olddir2  olddir3  script
mute@goflex:~/test$ ./script
mute@goflex:~/test$ ls
Projects  Something Awesome  Web Site  folder_list.txt  script
mute@goflex:~/test$ cat folder_list.txt
olddir,Something Awesome
olddir2,Projects
olddir3,Web Site
mute@goflex:~/test$ cat script
#!/bin/bash
while IFS=, read -r olddir newdir; do
        newdir=${newdir%$'\r'} #remove dos line endings...?

        mv "$olddir" "$newdir"
done < folder_list.txt
mute@goflex:~/test$

awk -F, '/testfolder1/ { sub(/\r/,"");print $2;exit }' ~/home/folders_list.txt 
testfolder2

newFolder=`awk -F, '/t${i}/ { sub(/\r/,"");print $2;exit }' ~/home/folders_list.txt `
echo ${newFolder}
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