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Date: Thu, 14 Sep 2006 06:31:00 -0600
From: Eric Blake <ebb9@byu.net>
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Subject: Re: add folder name to filename
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According to Nikolaos A. Patsopoulos on 9/14/2006 6:23 AM:
> 
> I used the following script but doesn't work under cygwin:
> 
> for file in folder*/*; do
>      dir=$(basename $(dirname $file) )
>      base=$(basename $file)
>      mv $file $(dirname $file)/${dir}_${base}
> done

What is the actual error message you are seeing?  But I bet the problem is
due to your missing quoting, so your problem is not cygwin-specific.  I
would guess that you are having issues due to spaces or other shell
metacharacters in the filenames being interpreted literally.

> 
> Does anyone has a suggestion or where I should look?

A good tutorial on shell programming?  Hint:

for file in folder*/*; do
     dir=$(basename "$(dirname "$file")")
     base=$(basename "$file")
     mv "$file" "$(dirname "$file")/${dir}_${base}"
done

(That won't work on filenames with \n as the last character, but
fortunately, unless you use cygwin managed mounts, that is not an issue on
cygwin).

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Eric Blake             ebb9@byu.net
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