changing to a specific folder, one deeper than specified location

PiNPOiNT · 04-27-2009, 03:50 PM

I have a path

/mnt/accounts/local/MOVIES/MovieName/VIDEO_TS/

and i want to move everything from the VIDEO_TS folder, to the "MovieName" folder.

but sometimes the path might be longer
/mnt/accounts/local/MOVIES/MovieName/Season 1/Specials/VIDEO_TS/

However, it will always be the folder after "MOVIES"

is there a way i can parse the path and determine the MovieName no matter how long the path?

raconteur · 04-27-2009, 04:36 PM

Of course you can do that... but cp and mv both have recursive directives that will cause them to operate on the specified directory and all subdirectories.

If that isn't what you want for some reason, then the 'find' command will locate and detail the directories in a specified path (and there are other methods, as well, but that one, imo, is simplest).

Hko · 04-27-2009, 04:40 PM

Code:

#!/bin/bash

FIXED_PATH="/mnt/accounts/local/MOVIES/"
SOURCE_PATH="/mnt/accounts/local/MOVIES/MovieName/Season 1/Specials/VIDEO_TS/"

FIXED_PART_REMOVED="${SOURCE_PATH#$FIXED_PATH}"
FIXED_PART_REMOVED="${FIXED_PART_REMOVED#/}" # remove leading slash if it's there

MOVIE_NAME="${FIXED_PART_REMOVED%%/*}"
DESTINATION_PATH="${FIXED_PATH%/}/$MOVIE_NAME"
echo "To move: \"$MOVIE_NAME\" to $DESTINATION_PATH do:"
echo "  mv \"${SOURCE_PATH%/}/*\" \"$DESTINATION_PATH\""

PiNPOiNT · 04-28-2009, 09:32 AM

Thanks HKO

Your code works great, but i'm having one little problem at the end.

echo " mv \"${SOURCE_PATH%/}/*\" \"$DESTINATION_PATH\""

I've removed the echo and the quotes around the outside, and when i try and run it, it says

mv: cannot stat `"/mnt/accounts/local/MOVIES/MovieName/Season 1/Specials/VIDEO_TS/*"': No such file or directory

Is there some extra character getting in there that's messing up the mv command?

manually typing mv /MovieName/Season 1/Specials/VIDEO_TS/* /MovieName/ works as expected though.
I can't figure it out

Thanks for all of your help

Hko · 04-28-2009, 04:29 PM

that is because the "season 1" part has a space in it. That is why there need to be double quotes around it. And that is also why I did the last echo command with those "\" things: so that when you run the script is the command as printed would work. A bit confusing, I now realize..

To actually do the copying inside the script just do:

Code:

mv "${SOURCE_PATH%/}/*" "$DESTINATION_PATH"

The paths with or without spaces in them should work.