[SOLVED] How to make several "renames" by inoking a single command? Make a shell script file?

jhwilliams · 11-25-2011, 07:17 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Foxbat1155

I have written a file with

foo=( ç á é í ó ú à è ì ò ù ä ë ï ö ü ÿ â ê î ô û å e i ø u )
bar=( c a e i o u a e i o u a e i o u y a e i o u a e i o u )

i=${#bar[@]}

while [ $i -gt 0 ]; do
i=$((i-1))
rename "s/${foo[$i]}/${bar[$i]}/g" "$@"
done

but this has resulted that when I invoke it on the terminal it just stays on an infinite loop, apparently, as it does nothing and then I have to do ^C to stop it and then I do ls and it is all the same.

Any suggestions for modifications?

Are you passing it arguments? Like:

Code:

./script.sh weird_áé_filename

Foxbat1155 · 11-25-2011, 07:20 AM

I see, thankyou. But what I would really like is to invoke a command and have it check all filenames and directory names in the directory where I am at. And change them accordingly, if needed.

jhwilliams · 11-25-2011, 07:26 AM

You could use the script in combination with find. This runs the script on every file/dir below current dir.

Code:

find . -exec ./script.sh {} \;

Might want to add a -n to the rename command before you try such a thing.

Foxbat1155 · 11-25-2011, 07:28 AM

Thankyou Sir Williams, that was very useful =)

David the H. · 11-25-2011, 09:09 AM

Here are a couple of tools that may help you. Why make your own replacement script if the heavy work has already been done for you?

http://www.nongnu.org/unac/unaccent-man1.en.html
http://detox.sourceforge.net/

Also, everyone, please use [code][/code] tags around your code, to preserve formatting and to improve readability.

Foxbat1155 · 11-25-2011, 09:13 AM

Thankyou Sir David.