This semester I’ve been taking a “Web Databases” class, for a number of the assignments we’ve been progressively building up a simple digital library site. Each project we needed to change the name of the files from something like “blandau-p5-home.html” to “blandau-p6-home.html”.
I was using Mercurial for managing my version control, and needed a way to quickly manage moving over the files from one name to another. In comes the shell script! I needed to clone the Mercurial repository over, then rename all the files to the new name. Here’s the code:
v='' # process the option flags while getopts ":vh" opt; do case $opt in v ) v='-v ' ;; h ) echo "usage: renameproj.sh [-v] [-h] old new" ;; \? ) echo "usage: renameproj.sh [-v] [-h] old new" ;; esac done shift $(($OPTIND - 1)) # Get the old and new project names old=$1 new=$2 # Function to rename files renamepfiles(){ v='' # process the option flags while getopts ":vo:n:" opt; do case $opt in v ) v='-v ' ;; o ) old=$OPTARG ;; n ) new=$OPTARG ;; \? ) echo "usage: renamepfiles [-v] [-o oldproject] [-n newproject] args..." ;; esac done shift $(($OPTIND - 1)) # Make the move for filename do oldfile=${filename} # the next line transforms the old filename into the new one by replacing the # old porject name with the new one. newfile=${filename/$old/$new} # first rename it with the move command mv -i ${v}$oldfile $newfile # then rename it with the hg command hg ${v}rename -A $oldfile $newfile done } # perform an mercurial clone of the project hg ${v}clone $old $new # change the working directory to our new project cd ${new} # call the function over all the files with the "old" project name in their name renamepfiles ${v}-n $new -o $old $(find . -name "*$old*" -maxdepth 2 -print | xargs echo -n) echo "- Project Moved"
