Bash driving me nuts... :(

[neom]

Oh man.. this is so annoying.

I am a freelance photographer.. and when I get print orders they come in as a huge text file, it was taking forever to copy all the prints into another folder so the application that does the ordering could be run over the folder to place the print orders with my lap.

As a result.. I had a friend of mine (who is no longer with us) create a little bash script that I can run over the text file to move the prints.. it's very simple:

#!/bin/bash
for x in $(cat images.txt); do
	cp $x print/
done

However, what we didn't plan for is that sometimes people include two or three or four etc orders of the same image.. when this happens.. the file is simply over-written and I have no way to know that there is a second order.. I don't know anything about bash and I've been researching how to correct this problem for about 2 months now, I am no closer.. I wondered if possibly someone might show me what needs to be added to this script to create either another copy right a different file name, or some way of identifying two prints.

Also, I suspect I should share... I'm not technically using linux, I run OS X.

Thank you for your time.

j.

[vsemaska]

Never worked with OS X but this script works in bash. It appends a number (.2, .3, etc) if the file already exists:

#!/bin/bash

typeset -i ct
for x in $(cat images.txt); do
        fle="`basename $x`"
        if [ -e print/$fle ]
           then ct=1
                lp="y"
                while [ "$lp" = "y" ]
                    do
                        ct=ct+1
                        tmp="${fle}.$ct"
                        if [ ! -e print/$tmp ]; then lp="n"; fi
                    done
                echo "file renamed to: $tmp"
                fle="$tmp"
           fi
        cp $x print/$fle
done

[neom]

Thank you so much, that really helped.

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