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oezlem
oezlem

Reputation: 247

Get .txt files in subfolders and name it with folder name

folder
     |___subfolder
             |_____file.txt
     |
     |___subfolder
             |____subfolder
                      |_______file.txt
     etc

I have a folder that looks like this. I want to get all the .txt files but as they all have the same name I also want to add the folder name in front of file.txt.

do
    name_folder= $(basename $folder)
    echo $name_folder
    for subfolder in $folder;
    do
    find .*txt
    done;
done;

I expect $(foldername)basename_txt but this way I am only getting the .txt files

Upvotes: 1

Views: 1118

Answers (2)

Bulikeri
Bulikeri

Reputation: 156

folder=$(echo "${PWD##*/}") #assuming you need only folder name, not full path

# find way from Secespitus
find . -name "*.txt" | while read line
# for each line, using sed adding folder name after last use of character "/"
#then renaming
do mv $(echo $line) $(echo $line | sed "s/\(.*\)\//\1\/$folder/")
done

Upvotes: 2

Secespitus
Secespitus

Reputation: 709

You can use the find command to get the name with the full path to every .txt file.

find . -name "*.txt"

will print out:

./test/subdir/file.txt
./test/subdir2/subdir/file.txt

If you need the full path you can use that instead of . in the find command:

find /home/someone/ -name "*.txt"

will yield: 

/home/someone/test/subdir/file.txt
/home/someone/test/subdir2/subdir/file.txt

And if you need only the last directory you can pipe the output of the find command into sed:

find /home/someone/ -name "*.txt" | sed 's/.*\/\(.*\/.*txt\)/\1/g'

will yield: 

subdir/file.txt
subdir/file.txt

Upvotes: 3

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