Programming :: Bash Script To Correct The Filenames
Apr 11, 2011
I have a directory that has a bunch of files and directories under it that I need to correct the filenames of. In fact, I plan on running this as a cronjob to keep checking filenames for certain characters. I want directories and filenames with spaces or pluses (+) to have those certain characters replaced with underscores (_). I know that this will involve sed but I'm not sure what else. A simple shell script would handle it.
I have been searching for 90 minutes for something that I "think" should be fairly easy. I'm pretty new to Bash Scripting so I could be completely wrong. Then again it may be a weird request to even need something like this. But here it is.I have a script written to convert data from one of our software version to another. The only thing I need to add to it is a "check to make sure the user running the script is in the /tmp directory".
I've been surfing and searching the net quit a while now to make my own script, but I haven't been really successful ever since I want to make a script which can remove strings from my mp3 collection (file names).
For example: Code: 101-bob_sinclar_feat_sean_paul-tik_tok_(radio_edit).mp3 --> bob_sinclar_feat_sean_paul-tik_tok_(radio_edit).mp3 10-Young Jeezy-Lose My Mind (78 Bpm) (Repack).mp3 --> young_jeezy-lose_my_mind.mp3
Now the problem is how can I remove the strings like: 101 & 10 (dynamic) (%%% Bpm) (dynamic) (Repack) (static)
I tried to tag late onto a question similar to mine on stackoverflow (Find Non-UTF8 Filenames on Linux File System) to elicit further replies, with no luck so far, so here goes again... I have the same problem as the OP in the link above and convmv is a great tool to fix one's own filesystem. My question is therefore academic, but I find it unsatisfactory (in fact I can't believe) that 'find' is not able to find non standard ascii characters.
Is there anyone out there that would know what combination of options to use to find filenames that contain non standard characters on what seems to be a unicode FS, in my case the characters seem to be 8bits extended ascii rather than unicode, the files come from a Windows machine (iso-8859-1) and I regularly need to fetch them. I'd love to see how find and/or grep can do the same as convmv.
I have a large number of files, all of them named /*/*.xyz I need to match them to potential files name /*/*.abc I have tried find -name *xyz |awk '// {print '$NF'}' | awk '{print $NF }' but the result has the full path I just need the filename without the extention, and without the full path.
I am trying to compare two filenames including the paths. Basically if two paths are similar then my program wants to display message. So I need to check for if two pathnames are same in the sorce and destination. So I was trying for the code to compare tow filename sincluding "" and if the Parent FIle Path is found in the child file path then I need to displays ome message. I was trying to modify something like this:
I have a fresh dedicated server that im currently configuring and needed a little help if I may ask.The problem is that i'm having a file naming issue. for example from the web I can access any file that does not have spaces of any type. ex/music/musicfile.mp3this works fine and my php script can locate itBut the problem is when I try to access a file that has spaces.ex/music/The Eagles - Hotel California.mp3my php script can't seem to locate any files like this with spaces but doesn't have a problem locating the files with no spaces.
I also took a look at the directory within shell. I did notice that files that have spaces are showing up in this formatt in shell.#/home/~username/public_html/music/The Eagles - Hotel California.mp3In shell , i'm assuming that unix/linux maybe adds a backslash before spaces. But when I FTP to this same directoy, the filename look normal and at windows standard. how could I correctly access these types of files within my php scrits? or would I need to have all uploaded files renamed so that spaces are replaced with underscores maybe?
I have bash script for converting files. I have a problem. If file name is "corrupted" then mv command for that file will not work. For example file with "-" in front of the name.
Is there a way to check if in some folder (subfolder) all the files have correct file names or they don't?
If they are all correct -> OK proceed with execution of the script!
If they are not all correct -> NOT OK stop with execution of the script!
I would like to know how do I print the line # in a script. My requirement is, I have a script which is about ~5000 lines long. If there are any errors happen I just exit. And I would like to add the line # of the script where the error happened.
Code: #!/bin/bash trap "echo 'you got me'" SIGINT SIGTERM # to trap ctrl+c echo "Press ctrl+c during 5 sec loop" for ((i=0;i<5;i++)); do
[Code]...
How come code behaves normally and stops when ctrl+c signal is caught and resumes, but after I use at least one timeout read in the code it looks like, if signal is caught again it doesn't pause the execution but skips the loop. If you remove -t (timeout) option from the read, both loops look the same!
Now in my bash script, I want to get the output /home/user instead of $HOME once read. So far, I have managed to get the $HOME variable but I can't get it to echo the variable. All I get is the output $HOME.
I have written quite a few separate bash & scripts and php scripts that up to now I have run from cron jobs. However I have to estimate how long each takes to run, before running the next and so it probably takes much longer than necessary to run them all. They have to run in order.
Now there are so many I am thinking it would be better to have a master bash script that would run one after the other, but I am not sure how to get the master script to wait before starting to run the next script. Is this possible and is there a command that will make the script wait between bash and php scripts , for them to finish, before running the next?
I am using embedded Linux. File open is successful. The file has all the permissions. It is present in current directory too. The size is about 27KB. But s.st_size says it is zero.
On that site I want to run a little javascript that verifies that the site was accessed as "Website1.com" and not "dev-Website1.com"
If it was accessed correctly, nothing happens. If it was accessed incorrectly, it displays an error saying "You are trying to access this site incorrectly."
I think it would be better to count the len and remove 3 chars to right to get the extension, but it can be macintosh filenames with have 4 chars for extensions.
I'm running Red Hat Linux 5.4 on HP DL580 server with 16 processors and 64 GB of RAM. I'm connecting to the server remotely through SSH. after entering the password, it takes time to return the command line, if I click ctrl+c during this time, I'll have the command line prompt but not the correct bash prompt (I have to run bash to pass to my correct prompt).I tried to install Apache on the server, ./configure took 4 hours to finish instead of 1 or two minutes, Oracle installation same behavior. Server Disks are mirrored using RAID controller.
i m using atoi() to convert char value to int. and then passing that int as a swtich variable.switch goes in a case and exectuing that particualr function but returning 0 value....for example: i am finding no of process() and system up time().when switch program goes in system up time it gives right values means correct no of days, hrs , min and sec but when it goes in no of process() it gives 0 answer.
I need to spawn 2 processes in parallel and each takes an hour or so to finish. Is the following one of the correct ways of using `at` in a script run by crontab?
Code: #!/bin/bash # define the env var, cd, etc... assume everything ok up to this point date +"The start time is %H:%M:%S" rm -f a.fin at now <<END_OF_AT do_a &> a.log
I'll post the entire code here, and then specifically highlight what is just failing in a fashion I'm apparently incapable of fixing a few hours later:
Code:
#!/usr/bin/expect # The script should be called with a file in the directory called sshServerList # That file has the following format: # Line # | Contents of line
[code]....
I've had all kinds of different results and problems, but I've never been able to successfully log into multiple servers, though the first server in the list most times works okay (though might not on this iteration). I'm a bit hack and slash and I would be very greatful not only for a solution, but any tips on how I should have done this and places where I could clean up my code.
I have a server client prog in which server is my 'agent' and client is 'manager'. Following is the code for both agent and manager. I want my agent to send what manager is requesting. But it is not working the way I want. The parameters which manager is requesting, agent has to send to manager but in this program result for those parameters is shown on agent's own terminal window. Where as I want them on manager's window. Secondly, there result is not correct, means it is giving ' 0 K ram and 0 no of process....
Im doing a sudoku-solver as a school assigment in Java. It is supposed to solve both 6x6, 9x9 and 12x12 boards.Im pretty much done with my algorithm(brute force), but I'm having a hard time figuring out how to calculate the right Box for a Square. I found this snippet:
Code:
// calculate BoardPos for index, where index is 0..80 void loadBoardPosFromIndex(BoardPos &pos, int index) { pos.index = index;
[code]...
This works on 9x9 boards, but I really dont get the math behind this, and how I can create a generic rule for both 6x6, 9x9 and 12x12 boards.
I found a strange problem when I use gdb in eclipse to debug. When I step in the program, the register RIP(I'm using x86_64 machine and that's EIP in 32 bit mode) shows correctly but the line stepping in the source code may be far from the correct line. For example, when there is no loop in the source code, the RIP keeps on increasing and the current instruction pointer goes back to several lines back. I'm sure the source code is the right one because I when I checked the memory and local variables after several lines the values are all correct. The source code has many empty lines and does it matters with GDB?
I found it easiest to embed narp into the gtk+-2.0 installation because all I needed to do was tweak the Makefile.am and Makefile.in files and let configure do the rest.This is a hack. I've failed at getting my own makefiles to work.
Would anyone point me in the right direction on how to properly make an installer for Linux? Also, what is the correct/common directory tree for Linux software packages? Any more suggestions on proceeding with this project using community standards?
I need to rename the resulted searched files from a loopI have the following code:
find . -name DOC* | while read i do find $i -type f -name '*.txt' done
basically, I am searching for all txt files inside any folder starting with DOC name.this code is working fine with me.I need to rename those .txt files to .txtOLDOS: Ubuntu 10.4Bash shell
