Performing an interactive move of files....

[chippymike]

Hi,

I need to write a script that will prompt the user, through a menu, to move all files which match a particular search string (*.abc*) within a directory to a target directory.
I need the user to be prompted for every file, not just files which already exist in the target directory (mv -i is therefore not an option).
Creating the menu option is no problem but the syntax of the script which will give it its functionality has got me pulling my hair out!

I have the following so far;

for file in `find /dir_path -name "*.abc*" -print`
do
mv -i $file /target_path
done

I know I'm probably quite far off the mark so any help is greatly appreciated!

Cheers

 

[KenCunningham]

Just a quick effort, but hope it gives you some ideas:

find /dir_path -name "*.abc*" -print > filelist
for name in `cat filelist`
do
echo "Is $name to be moved? "
read answer
if [ $answer = "y" ]
then
mv $name <destination_dir>/$name
else
echo &quot;You chose not to move $name.&quot;
fi
done

Note that this is untested, but should work with a bit of tweaking. Good luck.

 

[Ygor]

Maybe something like...

for file in /dir_path/*.abc*
do
echo &quot;Move $file ? (y/n) : \\c&quot;
read REPLY
case $REPLY in
Y*|y*) mv $file /dest_dir ;;
*) echo $file not moved ;;
esac
done

 

[chippymike]

Fantastic!

Thanks KenCunningham!

 

[chippymike]

Thanks to you too Ygor!