Sorry if this is a bit verbose…. Its hard to determine how to write this with enough detail for someone to help without writing a book.
Biggest challenge (which I am completely stuck on) is processing names with spaces.
I'm using OS X - Bash beginner.
My partial/non-working script
Code:
#!/bin/bash
in="/Volumes/Postal/dovecot-migrated"
out="/Volumes/Postal/Out"
for user in `ls $in`; do
cd $in/$user
# Step1 - Move first level folders
find . -name '.*' -type d -maxdepth 1 -mindepth 1 -exec echo mv \"{}\" \"$out/.$user{}\" \;
# Step2 - Move user folder
mv $in/$user $out/.$user
done
exit
With lots-o-comments
Code:
#!/bin/bash
in="/Volumes/Postal/dovecot-migrated"
out="/Volumes/Postal/Out"
# usernames do not have spaces
for user in `ls $in`; do
echo USER=$user
cd $in/$user
# Step1 - Move first level folders
# need to move any folder which begins with . and is at this level to $out
# folder name should change to include prefix of .user.
# orig= .folder.nest move to out as: .user.folder.nest
# these folders do contain spaces
# line below is definitely not working but gives an idea where I was going
# This was one of my many failed attempts.
find . -name '.*' -type d -maxdepth 1 -mindepth 1 -exec echo mv \"{}\" \"$out/.$user{}\" \;
# Step2 - Move user folder
# move user folder to out with a . as prefix
# user folders don't contain spaces
# user folder of joebob moves to out as .joebob
mv $in/$user $out/.$user
done
exit
Given:
Code:
in
user1
file 1
file 2
folder 1 (space in name)
folder 2
.folder 1 (notice the . prefix)
.folder 2
user2
file 1
file 2
folder 1
folder 2
.folder 1
.folder 2
Desired Results
Code:
out
.user1
file 1
file 2
folder 1
folder 2
.user1.folder 1
.user1.folder 2
.user2
file 1
file 2
folder 1
folder 2
.user2.folder 1
.user2.folder 2
What I'm trying to do is move all dovecot users (users don't begin with .) to become folders inside another user
My dovecot installation uses . as the folder delimiter
so 3 levels nested appear as
Code:
user1
.level1
.level1.level2
.level1.level2.level3
.level1.level2.level3.afolder
.level1.level2.level3.another
The out folder (with other users processed should look something like
Code:
out
.user1
.user.level1
.user.level1.level2
.user.level1.level2.level3
.user.level1.level2.level3.afolder
.user.level1.level2.level3.another
.user2
.user.meetings
.user.meetings.DC
.user.meetings.DC.invites
.user.meetings.DC.invites.sent
.user.meetings.DC.invites.received
Any help is greatly appreciated
JJ
