[SOLVED] Output format of Find

[king vash]

I am writing a prefix adder script. Given a directory and a prefix it scans the directory looking for files without the prefix and add it. I am having some trouble scanning the folder. I know that eventually I will encounter a file or folder with spaces so I did not use my normal

for name in $(find *)
do
echo $name
code to check and add prefix
done
I instead tried this.

find "$1" -name "*" -type f| while read name
do
echo $name
code to check and add prefix
done

My code to prefix is

if [ {name:0:$prefixlengh} = $2 ]
then
echo "had prefix"
else
echo "$name"
echo "$prefix""$name"
mv $name "$prefix""$name"
fi
which works great if the file is formatted as "name.ext" but fails when the file is formatted as "./directory/to/file/name.ext"

What can I do about this?

[nitro_n2o]

you could try

filename = ./path/to/file.x
echo ${filename##*/}

will give u file.x

try it out

[weresheep]

Hello,

You can use 'basename' and 'dirname' to strip the directory path / or the file name, from a given file name. It works like...



$ basename /foo/bar/file.txt
file.txt
$ dirname /foo/bar/file.txt
/foo/bar
$


so in your prefix checking code, perhaps you could do...



BASE="$(basename $name)"
DIR="$(dirname $name)"

if [ {BASE:0:$prefixlengh} = $2 ]
then
echo "had prefix"
else
echo "$BASE"
echo "${prefix}${BASE}"
mv $name "${DIR}/${prefix}${BASE}"
fi


I've not tested this, but hopefully you get the idea to be able to debug it 8-[

It might also be worth checking out 'rename' depending on how familiar you are with Perl regex.

-weresheep