renaming and moving filenames

nightjar · 03-01-2003, 06:34 PM

I have a lot of files with these names (windows format)

html\dir\anotherdir\name1.php
html\dir\anotherdir\anothername.php
etc

and so on

Can anyone learn me how to change the name and move the file to

/html/dir/anotherdir/name1.php
etc

Note that I must remove the first part of the name and move it to the new dir

Thanks in advance !!!

Crashed_Again · 03-01-2003, 06:38 PM

How can you have directories in Linux with backslashes? Its not possible. Do you mean you have text files that have these paths in them?

nightjar · 03-01-2003, 06:46 PM

The NAME of the files have backslashes because it was untarred from a compress file and have those names

The names are:
html\aaa\vvv\ccc\rrrr.php
html\aaa\vvv\ccc\ssss.php

They're not in these dir

Tnx

crichards · 03-01-2003, 06:51 PM

Here's how you'll move them...

mv -- "file\name.php" /where/you/want/your/file.php

EDIT: But I don't see how it would happen. I don't see how it COULD happen.

Crashed_Again · 03-01-2003, 06:52 PM

Oh so you zipped up the files on your windows machine and unzipped them on your Linux machine? I stand corrected then. I guess you can have backslashes for directories in linux.

I would just suggest creating the directories over again and then copying the files into the new directories:

mkdir html
cd html
mkdir aaa
cd aaa
mkdir vvv
cd vvv
mkdir ccc
cd ccc

cp \html\aaa\vvv\ccc\rrrr.php /html/aaa/vvv/ccc

How about this?

nightjar · 03-01-2003, 07:26 PM

may be
but it don't resolve the problem
Now I have for example:

/var/www/html/foodir/html\aaa\bbb\ccc\name1.php
The only thing that I do was change the dir but I need to supress the firs part of the name (aaa\bbb\ccc)
It's clear
Sorry for my english

JimKyle · 03-01-2003, 07:36 PM

Try this:
mv -p "html\aaa\bbb\ccc\name1.php" /var/www/html/foodir/name1.php

Note that the entire bad filename is quoted, since Linux will interpret the backslash as an escape, and the filename itself gets repeated in the target string. The -p argument tells mv to create all intermediate directories if they don't already exist.

If the quoting doesn't work, try doubling up the backslashes, because the string "\\" stands for one real "\" in most applications...

nightjar · 03-01-2003, 08:26 PM

mv -p?

# bash mv:invalid option

I'm with ML 9.0 and the option -p don't exist

In the other hand without -p can't handle the backslashes and assume the name as

htmlaaabbbcccname1.php

nightjar · 03-01-2003, 08:32 PM

I forgot that with double backslashes \\ the name don't change

JimKyle · 03-01-2003, 08:41 PM

My bad... The -p option comes from mkdir, not from mv!

Try just "mv html\\aaa\\bbb\\ccc\\name1.php name1.php" first.

If that succeeds in getting the front part of the name chopped off, then you should be able to use mv again to put it in any directory you want even if you have to manually create all the subdirectories first.

nightjar · 03-01-2003, 09:30 PM

Well
I find the solution in freshmeat
I found GPrename and all work fine !!!

Tnx at all who help me !!!