Re: truncate until delimiter

[Teemu Likonen <tlikonen@iki.fi>]

* 2010-02-28 15:13 (+0100), Vadkan Jozsef wrote:

> I just want to modify the names of some files, but I can't do it if
> they have their full path "in their names"..

Maybe basename and dirname commands could help?

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

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

So, if you need to rename files with a shell script you could do
something like this:

    #!/bin/sh
    for f in "$@"; do
            base=$(basename -- "$f")
            dir=$(dirname -- "$f")
            new="whatever-$base" # Some magic to create new name
            mv -- "$f" "$dir/$new"
    done

The you can have full paths in "$@" and the script handles them just
fine.

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