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NewbieTim
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 Posted: Sun May 19, 2002 10:27 am Post subject: Multiple moves |
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hi folks,
i have the following problem. I want to "mv *.xyz *" but i can't cause the last argument has to be a directory. I also remember that there was a tool called multiple move (mmv) which can do this. Is this true ?? Where can i find this in the portage tree ?? Or is there any other way to remove suffixes ?? |
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recluse
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| Posted: Sun May 19, 2002 4:01 pm Post subject: |
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I don't quite understand what you want to do. Could you give a little exameple maybe? 
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NewbieTim
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| Posted: Sun May 19, 2002 4:55 pm Post subject: |
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ok..following example. Lets say i have following files:
foo1.jpg.exe
foo2.jpg.exe
foo3.jpg.exe
i want to remove the ".exe" of all files so that i get the following:
foo1.jpg
foo2.jpg
foo3.jpg
Can't make it with mv... |
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tomte
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Joined: 08 May 2002
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| Posted: Sun May 19, 2002 6:10 pm Post subject: |
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| NewbieTim wrote: | ok..following example. Lets say i have following files:
foo1.jpg.exe
foo2.jpg.exe
foo3.jpg.exe
i want to remove the ".exe" of all files so that i get the following:
foo1.jpg
foo2.jpg
foo3.jpg
Can't make it with mv... |
for this particular problem:
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for i in `ls --color=none *.exe`; do mv $i `basename $i .exe`; done
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the apostrophs enclosing the ls and basename command are backticks,
found on the same key as the tilde on us-keyboards, bash expands this by executing the enclosed command and replaces it with the result of this command, very handy in countles situations.
for basename and the for-loop see daniel robbins bash courses, there are links to them in the documents section of gentoo.org
hth,
Tom |
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handsomepete
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Location: Kansas City, MO
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| Posted: Sun May 19, 2002 6:32 pm Post subject: |
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Well, you *could* do this:
| Code: | | ls *.exe | awk -F'.exe' '{print "mv "$0" "$1}' | sh |
...or you could just take that and make it take arguments and make your own mmv script... unless you're just dying to figure out a way to do it directly with mv which I don't think is possible. But I could be wrong... 
Edit: Oops... someone beat me to it. Cursed refresh button! |
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