This is what I have so far - my dropbox public URL creation script for a directory of public URLs (getdropbox.com - gpl I think). My LIST file was created using ls in the following fashion:
ls -d ~/Dropbox/Public/PUBLICFILES/* > LIST
dropboxpuburl.sh:
for PATH in `cat LIST`
do
echo $PATH
dropbox puburl $PATH > ~/URLLIST/$PATH
done
Now this creates a whole series of files - each with the dropbox puburl in them.
The question is: How can I cause this script to redirect all the public links into one text file, each on a new line - perhaps with the name PUBLIC-DIRECTORY-LIST?
Is this what you are trying to achieve?
for PATH in `cat LIST`
do
echo $PATH
dropbox puburl $PATH >> filename
done
OK, I've got it working using the suggestions given to me here:
for PATH in `cat LIST`
do
echo $PATH
dropbox puburl $PATH
done > PUBLIC-DIRECTORY-LIST
It creates a list of the directories, and below them the public link. Now it is time to prune the directories for a clean text file of links.
The => creates the files and adds something to the first line. >> appends to it on a new line.
echo txt=>PUBLIC-DIRECTORY-LIST.txt |
echo another text>>PUBLIC-DIRECTORY-LIST.txt
You should use while read with input redirection instead of for with cat filename. Also, in order to avoid variable name conflicts I changed your path variable to lowercase since the shell uses the all-caps one already. It won't affect your interactive shell, but it could affect something in your script.
Also, assuming that you want the lines from your input file to be displayed to the screen as a progress indicator, but not captured in your output file, this echo sends it to stderr.
while read path
do
echo $path >&2
dropbox puburl $path
done < LIST > PUBLIC-DIRECTORY-LIST
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I am working on a script for auto deployment, where I need to replace my files with the same filenames.
For example, I have the following files in my current directory
deployment.properties
wrapper.conf
config.properties
Later, I will generate another set of files like this
deployment.properties.tokenized
wrapper.conf.tokenized
config.properties.tokenized
Lastly, I want to replace the existing config files (in the first code block) using the *.tokenized version and remove the tokenized files.
In Linux, the following can do the job. But I don't know how to do in Windows
for f in *tokenized;
do mv "$f" "`echo $f | sed s/tokenized//`";
done
I tried to use powershell's move-item, rename-item but still cannot figure out the right way to do it. Could somebody help? bat / powershell scripts are both welcomed. Using loop is also okay. Thank you.
It is almost the same code but in cmd / batch files we have access to the elements of the file name.
From command line
for %a in (*.tokenized) do move /y "%a" "%~na"
Or, for a batch file (you need to escape the for replaceable parameter)
for %%a in (*.tokenized) do move /y "%%a" "%%~na"
As the extension of the file (the text after the last dot) is .tokenized, when you request just the name (without extension) of the file being referenced (%%~na) you get the original file name.
This PowerShell script should do the job:
Get-ChildItem *.tokenized | % {
move $_.Name ([System.IO.Path]::GetFileNameWithoutExtension($_.Name)) -Force
}
I am trying to move a file from Downloads to a folder on my desktop.
I keep getting this:
Why does the usage message appear afterwards?
It looks like your file has a space in it, so it needs to be escaped. Otherwise, mv tries to find a file named "Tres", one named "Beijos_C.pdf" and move them into that directory.
# Either...
mv Tres\ Beijos_C.pdf ~/Desktop/choro/
# ...or...
mv "Tres Beijos_C.pdf" ~/Desktop/choro/
If your file name contains spaces, you should surround it with " like this:
mv "my file name.txt" /home/user/Desktop
I'm creating a recycle-bin script in SH shell linux in three differant scripts, delete, trash and restore.
The first two scripts are working fine; 'Delete' moves the selected file to the recycle-bin while logging a text file called 'trashinfo' which shows the original path location of the file (to be later used in restore) and 'Trash' which removes everything in the recycle-bin.
The 'restore' script should take the logged path name gained in the delete script and return the file to its original location. I've spent more time than I'd like to remember on this and cant get the restore script to work properly!
Below is the script I've written, as far as I can make out I'm grepping for the filename variable in the text file that holds the pathname, eg 'restore testfile', this is then combined with the basename command, the testfile is then moved into the location thats been grepped and combined with the basename.
Anyone have any pointers on where I'm going wrong?
if [ "$*" != -f ]
then
path=grep "$*" /usr/local/bin/trashinfo
pathname=basename "$path"
mv "$path" "$pathname"
path=$(grep "$*" /usr/local/bin/trashinfo)
pathname=$(basename "$path")
I'm trying to write a script that will prompt the user for the first 5 charters of a file name then have it search the directories for any files that start with that. Then I want it to check to see if a folder is created with the file names and if not create one then move the files there. But if there is a directory for it already then to just move the files too the folder.
Break it down step by step:
"prompt the user for the first 5 characters of a file name" -- you can use the shell read command to get the data. Try a simple shell script:
#!/bin/bash
read foo
echo "foo = $foo"
"if a folder is created with the file names" -- you can use find to see if a file exists. for example:
find . -name abcde\*
"But if there is a directory for it already then to just move the files too the folder." -- the command mkdir takes a -p option so that, if the directory already exists, it won't do anything.
I am calling a FTP file from DOS, which holds ftp set of commands as follows:
ftp -s:ftpcmd1.txt
Now, the change requirement says, file is to be called multiple times with different file paths.
so, I need to write above statement, each time passing new file path as argument with FTP filename and writing something like "%1" in command inside ftp-file. Please help me with same. How do I do it.
Thanks.
I dont know if we can pass parameter to ftp script (atleast in DOS). But in the above case dynamically written out ftp script file would help. Small bat file which would do that is like below.
echo "user username pwd">ftpcmd1.txt
echo "bin">>ftpcmd1.txt
echo "put %1">>ftpcmd1.txt
echo "bye">>ftpcmd1.txt
ftp -n -i -v servername<ftpcmd1.txt
If you call this bat file with any file name as the first command line argument, it would transfer the file to target servername. Hope this is what you are looking for.