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kevpatts

10-11-2005 04:13 PM

Basic bash script question

I have 4 folders in /Audio named:

Albums
Compilations
Singles & EPs
Audio Books

I'm looking for a bit of bash script that can create an files from these using the command something like:

touch ${DIRS[index]}.txt

Can anyone help?
Kev

zhangmaike

10-11-2005 04:52 PM

Code:

for x in /Audio/*

do

  test -d "$x" && touch "$x.txt"

done

or on one line:

Code:

for x in /Audio/*; do test -d "$x" && touch "$x.txt"; done

Will create one empty .txt file for each directory in /Audio.

...is that what you were asking?

kevpatts

10-12-2005 07:07 AM

Thanks,

That's close, but not quite it. I'm looking to put the values onto an array in such a way as the can be used many times. Also in such a way that when I use:
touch ${DIRS[index]}.txt

when the array entry is "Singles & EPs" I get "Singles & EPs.txt" instead of:

Singles.txt
&.txt
EPs.txt

That's what I currently get.

Thanks for the help.
Kev

zhangmaike

10-12-2005 01:02 PM

Code:

i=0



for x in /Audio/*

do

  test -d "$x" &&  DIRS[$i]="$x"

  i=$(($i+1))

done

Would load an array with all the directories in /Audio.

Because of the spaces in some of your directory names, you'll need to reference the array elements from within quotes like:

touch "${DIRS[index]}.txt"

to keep bash from splitting the array element at its spaces.

If this still isn't what you're asking for, maybe you could post your current code?

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