Bash script deleting my files, and editing files in subdirectories question
So the purpose of this code is to rename files in a directory to a new name, number, and filetype. However anything that has already been renamed in my folder gets deleted. Like if I have:
This would take some work to keep them in subdirs. I see you already use the globstar ./** for recursion but didn't include the shopt -s globstar
This is bash4 feature, so let's write bash code and use all of it's nice features:
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Sorry, I'm really new to bash. Could someone explain how each part of these code segments work in 3 year old terms? And what the second one does? I like to understand what is going on. These were taken from Neutronscott's reply. Thanks
EDIT: Okay, I see what you did here. Though I'm not sure what the "$0" is for on the end of the printf statement.
EDIT: and I understand everything here other than '%s%03d.%s'
Last edited by TheGreatGizmo; 02-03-2014 at 10:10 PM..
continue just resumes at the next iteration of the enclosing for loop. In this particular code that means stop processing the current file and start processing the next file.
The current code is less than ideal as it will rename existing renamed files and skip files.
see below:
This slight update should be a little safer.
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