[cgjoker]

How do I append contents from a file, example a date, to a directory name?

[Squashman]

could you be a little more specific or show us an example of what you want to do. I am not quite understanding the question.

[soup4you2]

($:/tmp)=> ls -laoh
total 6
drwxrwxrwt   3 root  wheel  - 512B Sep  8 03:02 .
drwxr-xr-x  19 root  wheel  - 512B Sep  7 23:59 ..
drwxrwxrwt   2 root  wheel  - 512B Sep  8 00:01 .X11-unix

Give LS options... read man ls for more info

[cgjoker]

why do you refer to the ls command?

if i have a file with the contents of '060703'

and id like to append those contents to a directory name how do i do this?

required output: 060703directory

thanks, cgjoker.

[soup4you2]

Simple...

##  PARSER.SH By Mr Soup Guy

#!/usr/local/bin/bash
cat * > list.txt

for VAR in `cat list.txt`; do
echo "$VAR Was Found In Stuff.. Making Directory"
mkdir $VAR
done

rm list.txt
exit 0

just place it in some script directory.. not inside your working directory..

run as

$../parser.sh .

you might also want to research about shell scripting and read the man pages on sed and awk .. you might need to customize the script a little to fit your needs.

[cgjoker]

thanks.. but it looks like your program only renames the directory to what is in the file... (which is good), but I need it to also append the contents to an existing directory name.

so, say date was the contents of list.txt...

the directory which id want renamed was called olddir,

the new directory would be:

dateolddir

thanks.

[soup4you2]

i'm having a really hard time fully understanding what you want.. so here's a Excelent resource to learning bash scripting..

http://neworder.box.sk/bash.tutor.php

[cgjoker]

SOUP....

i figured out how to do it... here is what i was trying to do fyi.

pretty simple once i took soom time to think about it.

DIR2=final_file2
DIR6=final_file6
DIRIN=in_data

cat filedate.dat > list.txt

for VAR in `cat list.txt`;

do

mv $DIR2 $DIR2$VAR
mv $DIR6 $DIR6$VAR
mv $DIRIN $DIRIN$VAR

mkdir $DIR2
mkdir $DIR6
mkdir $DIRIN

cp ./$DIR2$VAR/*.dct ./$DIR2/.
cp ./$DIR6$VAR/*.dct ./$DIR6/.
cp ./$DIRIN$VAR/*.dct ./$DIRIN/.


done

[soup4you2]

ahhh now i see.... Glad to see you got it `werkin...