Comments on: Squirt: Moving Files Around Using Bash http://test.latko.org/?p=292 A Misanthropic Anthropoid With Something to Say Sun, 13 Nov 2022 02:54:56 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 hourly 1 By: Chris Latko http://test.latko.org/?p=292&cpage=1#comment-173 Chris Latko Fri, 27 Feb 2009 16:38:18 +0000 http://www.latko.org/?p=292#comment-173 True. You should use -xdev to limit recursion, but the stock version of find in OS X 10.5.6 doesn't support that. You would have to use -maxdepth. Thanks for the one liner. True. You should use -xdev to limit recursion, but the stock version of find in OS X 10.5.6 doesn’t support that. You would have to use -maxdepth. Thanks for the one liner.

]]> By: ML http://test.latko.org/?p=292&cpage=1#comment-171 ML Fri, 27 Feb 2009 07:07:22 +0000 http://www.latko.org/?p=292#comment-171 Hmm... this doesn't work? $ for file in *_1.jpg; do mv $file ../xx/"$(basename $file _1.jpg).jpg"; done Unless you want to find files in subdir as well, then $ for file in `find . -name "*_1.jpg"`; do mv $file ../xx/"$(basename $file _1.jpg).jpg"; done Hmm… this doesn’t work?

$ for file in *_1.jpg; do mv $file ../xx/”$(basename $file _1.jpg).jpg”; done

Unless you want to find files in subdir as well, then

$ for file in `find . -name “*_1.jpg”`; do mv $file ../xx/”$(basename $file _1.jpg).jpg”; done

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