On Mon, 2006-03-13 at 17:47 -0600, Jordan Peacock wrote:
> Something like this?
>
> find . -name '*.tar' '*.zip' '*.rar' -exec # is there some
> symbol denoting 'or'?
> if....
> then...
>
> #!/bin/bash
>
> for i in *.rar; do
> mkdir `basename $i .rar`.dir
> cd `basename $i .rar`.dir
> unrar e ../$i
> cd ..
> done
>
> # Brian Hurt's original
>
> for i in *.tar; do
> mkdir `basename $i .tar`.dir
> cd `basename $i .tar`.dir
> tar xvf ../$i
> cd ..
> done
>
If you need if/else logic you need to write a shell script. Find won't
cut it on it's own, even though it does have "and" and "or". Something
like this will work:
#!/bin/bash
for i in `find . -name '*.tar' -o -name '*.rar' -o -name '*.zip'; do
case $i in
*.tar)
tar -xvf $i
;;
*.rar)
rar...
;;
*.zip)
zip...
;;
esac
done
The case statement switches between multiple options. "esac" ends the
case statement. Each option is listed with some string followed by ")".
That string can use shell expressions for matching. The code in the
option gets executed until ";;'.
Note that this find will find all files recursively in the current
directory. If you just want all of the files in a directory change the
find to: "*.zip *.rar *.tar".
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