Excuse the newby question but I have a number of unique directories which each contain a single file of a generic name.
What I would like to do is to move nd rename the files into a single directory
Preferably using wildcards but I guess you could also generate a list and cycle through it.
Help would be greatly appreciated.
try to do something like this,
for d in ${PATH_OF_YOUR_DIRECTORY}/*/ ; do
mv ${d}index.html ${PATH_WHERE_YOU_HAVE_TO_MOVE}/$(basename ${d}).html
done
It's not clear from the question how the files should be renamed, so I'm going to assume that they should be renamed by appending the name of their original directory to their original name.
The code below assumes that your working directory holds the subdirectories and each subdirectory has the index.html file, as shown in the question. The index.html files will be moved to a new directory called allfiles.
mkdir allfiles || exit
for pathname in */index.html
do
mv -- "$pathname" "allfiles/${pathname%/index.html}-index.html"
done
The pathname variable will hold pathnames like A-Dwelling-Place/index.html, and the parameter expansion ${pathname%/index.html} would remove the /index.html bit from the end of that pathname.
You could instead iterate over the directories rather than the files,
mkdir allfiles || exit
for dirname in */
do
mv -- "$dirname"/index.html "${dirname%/}-index.html"
done
In this case, the dirname variable would hold pathnames like A-Dwelling-Place/, and ${dirname%/} would delete that trailing slash character.
