Problem scripting a copy and renaming shell executable
I also posted this on macrumors forum, then i realized that this is a more suitable forum for matters like this. I apologize for the username, I was looking at a bag of doritos when it asked me for a username. lol
I need a program (see below for what I've tried) and I think a shell program will work.
I need a program that will read each line and copy a specific JPEG to a folder and rename it sequentially as it copies them. It has to be in the order that the list.txt is in.
I have had some luck with writing a shell script for it.
I have a text file named list.txt
it looks exactly like this when you open it
and the picture that each of these contains is a picture of the letter or number or punctuation.
the files above write "beginning god created", but I want to do this to a book. or anything else I want.
I have been using these commands
This sorta successfully copies the files listed in list.txt but won't copy a file with the same name in the same folder.
The date/time when it was copied to the folder on each file isn't accurate because of the duplicate file name issue.
Since I am only using pictures of the 26 letters and 10 numbers and punctuation of the alphabet, I will obviously be running into the duplicate file name issue, I will be copying the same files many times over depending on the text in list.txt
So I figure that I need to rename them as they are pasted in the new folder.
So I use this to rename them.
This successfully renames the original JPEG's, but in the wrong folder and I need the ones copied to be renamed, not the source JPEG's
and finally this piece to somehow combine them
Ive tried all kinds of mutations to get it to work and it looks something like this
what am i missing? and doing wrong? I also need to to wait for each JPEG to be copied and renamed before going to the next line in list.txt
I need the files copied and renamed in order. If you help me, treat me stupid when it comes to programming, because I am pretty much clueless.
the files above write "beginning god created", but I want to do this to a book. or anything else I want.
Whut?
You want to create a book using images as letters?
First and foremost, you dont want to have a complete book with each letter as a picutre.
By that i mean, there will be thousends of a.jpg, s.jpg and probably ten-thousens of spacechar.jpg....
You want to reuse each image representing a char.
So my question is, how to you plan to make them a book?
Actualy, another more important question rises, is this some homework?
If so, please see: Rules for Homework & Coursework Questions Forum
It's not going to be just pictures of letters of text in books but things that bring emotion when you see the picture. No I'm not in school, no homework nothing like that. I'm retired navy. Honorable medical discharge. Anyway I'm going to put the pictures in a time lapse and then I'm going to speed it up till each picture only flashes for about 16 milliseconds. I do tree removal time lapses for my dad's business. I set up my camera to take a picture every 5 seconds for 5 or so hours then we take the tree down and then I turn the pictures into a 1 minute timelapse.
When I do a tree timelapse I put the pictures into the timelapse program and it is a big video 3000 pictures about 20 GB but then I put it through iMovie and speed it up and it's a very small file size. Like 45MB
its an idea/experiment i had 3 days ago, and I'm try to put it together. I just need the script to do the copying and sequentially renaming.
Last edited by ilovedoritos; 01-19-2015 at 04:07 AM..
Reason: I keep thinking of things to add and I found a few typos, don't want to look like an idiot now do we hmm
Folder content: example-text.txt letters.sh Outputs as:
Hope this helps to get you started.
If not, i'm not getting/understanding what you try to achieve.
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Ahh yes... main cause is.... AFAIK there is no way to 'flash' an image in the shell. (to display anyway - with the exception of framebuffer - above my knowhow.)
Again, (just as far i understand you, which seems its not 'that' far), it makes now sense to copy the char-images, just make a one folder containing these, and call the specific image upon need.
Reuse what is already existing, there is no sense in having 300 letter a.jpg in several folders.
If that is not what you want to achieve, please elaborate more about that copy issue you mention, because from your first post, its quite (very) unclear to me what you actualy want to do OR what the precice issue is.
Specialy since you use a mv command rather that cp...
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My code I tried worked partly, I got it to copy the specific Jpegs but it wouldn't copy ones again that existed in the folder, and I got it to sequentially rename the files but it renamed the source files and not the copied ones. I just don't know how to combine the functions
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