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gregmac
Asked: 2011-05-20 06:57:16 +0800 CST

Moving/renaming files with %2f in their name into a directory structure

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I have a bunch of files that were exported (from my trac wiki) that are named like ParentPage%2FSubPage but they actually should be like ParentPage/SubPage. Anyone have a quick and dirty way to rename and organize them, so that ParentPage will be a directory, and then SubPage will be a file inside that?

Slightly modified from @Christopher Karel's answer, which is what I used:

for FILE in $(ls | grep "%2F")
do
  CONVERTED=$(echo $FILE | sed -e 's/%2F/\//g')
  DIRNAME=$(dirname $CONVERTED)
  if [ -f $DIRNAME ]; then  mv $DIRNAME $DIRNAME.page; fi
  mkdir -p $DIRNAME
  if [ -f $DIRNAME.page ]; then  mv $DIRNAME.page $DIRNAME/$(basename $DIRNAME); fi
  mv $FILE $CONVERTED
done

and the test data I used (in an empty dir), before running the above:

touch Test; touch Test%2FA%2F1; touch Test%2FA%2F2; touch Test%2FB
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1 Answers

  1. Best Answer

    OK, here's a bash method to do this. Not foolproof, but quick and dirty.

    for FILE in $(ls | grep "%2F")
do
CONVERTED=$(echo $FILE | sed -e 's/%2F/\//')
mkdir -p $(dirname $CONVERTED)
mv $FILE $CONVERTED
done



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