X-Spam-Check-By: sourceware.org Message-ID: <45094B84.6010009@byu.net> Date: Thu, 14 Sep 2006 06:31:00 -0600 From: Eric Blake User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.8.0.5) Gecko/20060719 Thunderbird/1.5.0.5 Mnenhy/0.7.4.666 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com, npatsop AT cc DOT uoi DOT gr Subject: Re: add folder name to filename References: <450949CF DOT 5050306 AT cc DOT uoi DOT gr> In-Reply-To: <450949CF.5050306@cc.uoi.gr> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-IsSubscribed: yes Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help AT cygwin DOT com; run by ezmlm List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner AT cygwin DOT com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Delivered-To: mailing list cygwin AT cygwin DOT com -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 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). - -- Life is short - so eat dessert first! Eric Blake ebb9 AT byu DOT net -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.2.1 (Cygwin) Comment: Public key at home.comcast.net/~ericblake/eblake.gpg Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iD8DBQFFCUuD84KuGfSFAYARAn1BAJ41A85ZHvKBAWtKa3tWKO+4fLrh5gCgkw+j fzK7C9kby5r6M26SQQk2pvo= =CZVE -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/