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Hi,

I am trying to loop though each files in a directory, and for each file create its own directory and move the file to that directory.

If the name of the file is <something.sdp>, I need to name the directory "something".

this is the code I have tried so far:



i dont think my sed expression is correct, but I am getting an error on the
$y declaration line stating:

line 11: =: command not found

Parameter Expansion can do it:

don't quote the in part of the for loop, otherwise the asterisk won't get expanded.
no dollar sign, and no spaces around equal sign; when assigning a variable

Sed command is not intended to change the name of the file, but the data inside the file.
On defining a variable, like 'y' above the dollar is not put in front of it. The dollar is used after, when the variable is to be expanded.
There must be no space between the equal sign.
Thus, the line above should be written like that

In this way, the output of <some command> will be passed to the "y" variable.

In the script written above it is missing the creation of the directory, something like "mkdir $y" before "cp $x $y"

That is a way you can use sed to change the file name and not the file data.

You must use the backslash in front of the dot '.' because dot is a metacharacter, meaning every single character in bash

in sed

another way:;)

Or, without sed:

or, if we know that we want to remove just the file extension:

No $y is needed therefore:

If your filenames may contain spaces or other strange characters, double quote each argument of cp.

Did you mean « copy » by « move »? Well, if the answer is yes, replace « mv » by « cp ».