Shell Programming and Scripting

Hey guys,
ive been working on this for about 2hrs now - without any solution.
At first I need to say I dont have skills in linux bash scripting, but I tried to use some codesnippets and manuals from google.

What I want to do:
I have different folders including 2 different filestypes with diffent names, ex. /folderxyz/importantname.txt, /folderxyz/file.cad
I want the file.cad named to importantname.cad (so name without ending from txt file), moving the renamed file to a different folder and delete the folder of these two files.

I know I need to use some kind of loop, but I didnt even get the code to rename the file. I startet getting the folders with

Code:

find -name *.txt

but I didnt get managed to handle the string to seperate the name (for rename) and the dir to change the directory.

Could you give me some help?
Regards

(1) Do you have only two files in the directory "folderxyz", as indicated in your post?
(2) Or do you have more than two?

(3) In case you have more than two, then what is the relationship between a "cad" file name and a "txt" file name it should be converted to? For example, if the directory "folderxyz" has 4 files: "foo.txt", "bar.cad", "fizz.txt" and "buzz.cad", then should "buzz.cad" be renamed to "fizz.cad" or "foo.cad"?

Repeating some of what durden_tyler said and adding some additional notes: You need to be much clearer about what you are trying to do and what you have done.

The find utility is used to search a file hierarchy for various criteria. In the sample you provided, you will get a syntax error if the directory in which you run this command contains more than one file with a name ending with the string .txt, will search the file hierarchy for a file with the same name as the file in current directory with a named ending in .txt if there is exactly one file in the current directory with a name ending in .txt, or will find all of the files in the file hierarchy rooted in the current directory with names ending in .txt if there aren't any files in the current directory with a name ending with .txt.

Once you have found a file with a name ending in .txt, how do you determine which file with a name ending in .cad should be renamed?

After renaming that .cad file (and moving or copying it to another directory), do you really want to remove every file in the current directory (including the .txt that you haven't moved or copied to anywhere else) even if there are other .txt and/or .cad files remaining in that directory or in subdirectories under that directory?

And, to what directory do you want to move the renamed .cad files?

We'll be happy to help you figure out how to write a bash script that will run on a Linux operating system if you give us a clear description of what you're trying to do. Without a clear description, we can make wild guesses that could waste a lot of your time and ours.

there a different types of files, even subfolders, but just only one .txt and .cad

sure, i try to give my best explaning my plans in english.
i try to explain this by creating a structure with all possibilities:

Code:

myrootfolder/folder1/ #no .cad and no .txt file - can be ignored
myrootfolder/folder2/ #including .txt or .cad, but not both - can be ignored
myrootfolder/folder3/ #including both files, need to rename the .cad, move the cad to myrootfolder/finished/ and remove folder3
or
myrootfolder/folder4/folder4sub/ #including both files, need to rename the .cad, move the cad to myrootfolder/finished/ and remove folder4

Just to be sure - you want the .cad renamed and moved, and everything else deleted - files of any "type", and subdirectories?

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And, there's always one .cad and one .txt?

yes, this procedure for every folder (or subfolder)
not always, there are folders with different files too, but they should stay untouched only performing actions on folders that contains .txt and .cad

Give this - although not thoroughly tested - a try and report back:

Code:

find ./folder? -name "*.txt" | while read FN; do PT=${FN%/*}/; FN=${FN#$PT}; echo mv ${PT}*.cad finished/${FN%.txt}.cad; echo rmdir ${PT%/*/*}; done
mv ./folder3/folder3sub/file.cad finished/important.cad
rmdir ./folder3

Remove the echo if happy with the results. You may need to use the rm -f instead of rmdir.