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Subject: Re: add folder name to filename
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Eric Blake wrote:
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> According to Nikolaos A. Patsopoulos on 9/14/2006 6:23 AM:
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>> 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
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I get the same error with my code and yours:

Script started, file is typescript

nothing happens, except an empty file called typescript in the parent 
directory


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