CODEWITHSUNDEEP
linuxbash
Santa
Santa

Reputation: 47

Create duplicate file and rename it

I want duplicates of the files with different name.
I am currently trying out these commands before putting them into my bash script. 

$ set dir = /somewhere/states
$ find $dir -name "total.txt" -type f | xargs ls -1
/somewhere/states/florida/fixed.fl_Asite_ttl/somewhere/total.txt
/somewhere/states/hawaii/fixed.hi_Bsite_ttl/somewhere/total.txt
/somewhere/states/kentucky/fixed.ky_Asite_ttl/somewhere/total.txt
/somewhere/states/michigan/fixed.mi_Csite_ttl/somewhere/total.txt
/somewhere/states/texas/fixed.tx_Vsite_ttl/somewhere/total.txt

I know I can rename file using something like this, but it isn't exactly what I want:

$ find $dir -name "total.txt" -exec sh -c 'cp {} `dirname {}`/`basename {} `why.xls' \;
/somewhere/states/florida/fixed.fl_Asite_ttl/somewhere/total.txtwhy.xls
/somewhere/states/hawaii/fixed.hi_Bsite_ttl/somewhere/total.txtwhy.xls
/somewhere/states/kentucky/fixed.ky_Asite_ttl/somewhere/total.txtwhy.xls
/somewhere/states/michigan/fixed.mi_Csite_ttl/somewhere/total.txtwhy.xls
/somewhere/states/texas/fixed.tx_Vsite_ttl/somewhere/total.txtwhy.xls

May I know how to copy the files and have the new files in the same dir?
below are the examples.
I want to name the new files as everything behind "fixed." and before "/somewhere" and changing the file extension as well

/somewhere/states/florida/fixed.fl_Asite_ttl/somewhere/fl_Asite_ttl.xls
/somewhere/states/hawaii/fixed.hi_Bsite_ttl/somewhere/hi_Bsite_ttl.xls
/somewhere/states/kentucky/fixed.ky_Asite_ttl/somewhere/ky_Asite_ttl.xls
/somewhere/states/michigan/fixed.mi_Csite_ttl/somewhere/mi_Csite_ttl.xls
/somewhere/states/texas/fixed.tx_Vsite_ttl/somewhere/tx_Vsite_ttl.xls

Update: /somewhere/states/florida_fixed_ttl/fixed.fl_Asite_ttl/somewhere/total.txt

Upvotes: 0

Views: 2871

Answers (1)

Wayne Vosberg
Wayne Vosberg

Reputation: 1053

Probably not the most elegant but this should work:

find . -name total.txt | while read F ; do [[ $F =~ fixed.[^/]* ]] ; N=$(echo $BASH_REMATCH | sed s/fixed\.//) ; echo "cp $F $(dirname $F)/$N.xls" ; done

If you are happy with the output just remove the last echo, i.e. this:

echo "cp $F $(dirname $F)/$N.xls"

to this:

cp "$F" "$(dirname $F)/$N.xls"

Note, if the .txt and .xls contents will always remain the same you can use ln instead of cp -- one file, two names.

Upvotes: 1

Related Questions