Script to hide subdirs with a specific name

trafikpolisen · 05-14-2013, 03:20 PM

I'm trying to prevent Shotwell from importing RAW's. See this thread: http://www.linuxquestions.org/questi...ly-4175445360/
I have an idea to create a script that searches through my photo directory tree and renames every folder named "raw" to ".raw", thus hiding it from Shotwell. I could then import the photos in Shotwell and then run a script to remove the dot from the folder names. A bit crude, but it would sort the problem.
Now, I have close to zero knowledge about scripting, so I need some help. Also, if someone has a better solution to solve the problem, please tell.

TB0ne · 05-14-2013, 04:18 PM

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Originally Posted by trafikpolisen

I'm trying to prevent Shotwell from importing RAW's. See this thread: http://www.linuxquestions.org/questi...ly-4175445360/
I have an idea to create a script that searches through my photo directory tree and renames every folder named "raw" to ".raw", thus hiding it from Shotwell. I could then import the photos in Shotwell and then run a script to remove the dot from the folder names. A bit crude, but it would sort the problem.
Now, I have close to zero knowledge about scripting, so I need some help. Also, if someone has a better solution to solve the problem, please tell.

Well, a good place to start would be scripting tutorials:
http://www.tldp.org/LDP/Bash-Beginne...ers-Guide.html
http://tldp.org/LDP/abs/html/

Those can walk you through creating a script, renaming files, looping, etc. From there, you should easily be able to look at the examples/samples, and create something that does what you want. If you get stuck, post what you've written and where you're having trouble, and we'll be glad to help.

trafikpolisen · 05-18-2013, 10:02 PM

After a few hours on Google i've created this:

#!/bin/bash

find /home/myhomedir/Photos -name "raw" -type d | while read fn; do
fn=${fn%raw}
echo mv ${fn}raw ${fn}.raw
done

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