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Lockup
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 Posted: Mon Jan 20, 2003 7:02 pm Post subject: mv and multiple files |
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is there some kind of alternative to 'mv' (or another shell i dunno...) that supports multiple files on move? for example:
kinda like old-style dos...
i looked around a bit but im not even sure WHAT to look for(the words... [/code] |
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aja
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| Posted: Mon Jan 20, 2003 7:09 pm Post subject: |
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| The Linux Cookbook mentions a perl script called chcase for that use. A google would probably turn it up. |
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gzaector
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| Posted: Mon Jan 20, 2003 7:35 pm Post subject: |
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you could try putting everything into a directory then copying that, then deleting it
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cp -r dir dest; rm -rf dir
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just a suggestion
-gza |
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pjp
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| Posted: Mon Jan 20, 2003 8:38 pm Post subject: |
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Check out rename, which is part of the util-linux package.
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Lockup
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| Posted: Mon Jan 20, 2003 11:05 pm Post subject: |
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thanks ill look into rename and that perl script  |
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ebrostig
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| Posted: Mon Jan 20, 2003 11:34 pm Post subject: |
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Another method is using shellscripts.
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for i in *.mp3
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mv $i `basename $i .mp3`.blah
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This renames all your .mp3 files to .blah.
Just type in the command at yhe command prompt and hit enter to run it.
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Kaali
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| Posted: Tue Jan 21, 2003 12:43 am Post subject: |
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| ebrostig wrote: | Another method is using shellscripts.
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for i in *.mp3
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mv $i `basename $i .mp3`.blah
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This renames all your .mp3 files to .blah.
Just type in the command at yhe command prompt and hit enter to run it.
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Or use mostly unknown feature in Bash to tweak ebrostigs code a bit:
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for i in *.mp3; do mv $i ${i/.mp3/.blah}; done
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ebrostig
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| Posted: Tue Jan 21, 2003 12:47 am Post subject: |
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Great!
I was not aware of that feature 
I'm not doing enough shell programming these days.
Erik
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bdonlan
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| Posted: Tue Jan 21, 2003 12:49 am Post subject: Not directly... |
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Try:
| Code: | | for mp3 in *.mp3; do mv "$mp3" "$(echo $mp3 | sed 's/[.]mp3$/.blah')"; done |
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linut
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| Posted: Tue Jan 21, 2003 10:09 pm Post subject: |
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| Quote: | | is there some kind of alternative to 'mv' |
You might like mmv or ren. They are in portage. |
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rac
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| Posted: Wed Jan 22, 2003 12:10 am Post subject: |
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find and xargs are another alternative to the shell scripting approach.
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