I am having some trouble executing an interactive shell script that I have written using Mac TextEdit that takes a user input via terminal of a file type (jpg or gif) and then activates a script that will iterate through a folder of unsorted file types located on my desktop, with the aim being, to move these files to a new folder based on the users command.
i.e The user types jpg in the terminal and the script runs and moves all files of type jpg from unsorted into sorted
As it currently stands, When I run the code I am not getting an error, it's merely not moving these files from one directory to the other.
I have tried stack overflow and other sites without success. I do not know if the issue pertains to the fact that the user input is not being caught through the read command or perhaps there is a wider issue with my code.
Any help making this code run would be greatly appreciated.
May I asked, your successful code cited extention, is that the best way for the terminal to read the input for a script to run.
The command read requires one or more variables; it really doesn't matter what we name it, however it is a good idea to name it something meaningful. I committed an orthographic error. I meant extension. Which proves that it doesn't care what's named.
Of course, you want to use that after the variable is populated with information. That's done at /Users/christopherdorman/desktop/unsorted/*.${extension}
Try to avoid the word file as a variable. There is already a command to interrogate the system for file types and this command is called file
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