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creating directories and moving into them

Hi guys,

I have bunches and bunches of "special binary tar like" files that I need to "unpack" they are all located in one parent directory.

Because the data files inside each could have the same names, I want to create a directory with their specific name and then move them into their own directories and then unpack them.

I/m tinking something like

Code:

 

for

file in 'ls *.packed' ;

do mkdir  (however I pass the filename to the mkdir)

mv filename into directory

done

hold on guys, I think I might know more than just this. I just have to run, I'm late to meet some of the girls for diner

Tabitha

Code:

#!/bin/bash

# never parse ls output in scripts

for filename in *.packed

do

  mkdir $filename.dir

  # mkdir $filename wouldn't work, since a file with this name already exists

  mv $filename $filename.dir

done

Quote:

Originally Posted by TobiSGD (Post 4777987)

[code]
# never parse ls output in scripts

hmm, are you saying that the code below is not to be done?

Quote:

for file in $(ls -l /folder)

or you mean he should have done

Quote:

'ls *.packed >/dev/null'

maybe I am missing understanding the use of the word parse,please explain.

Thanks

Look here for a good explanation why you should not use the output of ls (parsing is a different word for processing, more or less) in Bash scripts: http://mywiki.wooledge.org/ParsingLs

Thanks Tobi!!!

When I run your script I get directories named

ABC.packed.dir
DEF.packed.dir
GHI.packed.dir

etc...

I would like them to have more of the usual naming convention

ABC
DEF
GHI

etc...

so I was thinking that I could first run your script and then add on to it:

Code:

for filename in *.packed

do

  mkdir $filename.dir

  mv $filename $filename.dir

done



for dirname in *.packed.dir

do

    rename $dirname.packed.dir $dirname *dirname.packed.dir

done

thinking I could use a second for/do loop that starts up after all the directories are created and the files are moved inside them, but as you know (and I don't) that doesn't work :(

I searcehed on the web and theres lots of posts about how to rename files, but not directories

I think I can simply add a second for/do loop after another and get it to run because I did

Code:

for dirname in *.packed.dir

do

    echo 1

done

and a series of 1 was printed to the screen.

I'm self taught and so slow learning, so I greatly appreciate your help and your teaching!

Tabitha

Try

Code:

for dir in *.packed.dir

do

    new_dir=$(echo ${dir%.packed.dir})

    mv $dir $new_dir

done

http://tldp.org/LDP/abs/html/string-manipulation.html

Quote:

Originally Posted by chrism01 (Post 4779008)

Try

Code:

for dir in *.packed.dir

do

    new_dir=$(echo ${dir%.packed.dir})

    mv $dir $new_dir

done

http://tldp.org/LDP/abs/html/string-manipulation.html

Why the echo instead of just

Code:

new_dir=${dir%.packed.dir}

I started by testing raw on the cmd line with echo and forgot to remove it later... :)

lol, just checking. I was curious if there was a special reason for it.