Re: [gentoo-user] Dolphin and adding a option, if it exists.

[Frank Steinmetzger <Warp_7@gmx.de>]

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Am Tue, Nov 22, 2022 at 03:59:27AM -0600 schrieb Dale:

> > If you still want to stick to a terminal solution akin to mv, then there is
> > no way around a little script which wraps mv by extracting the extension and
> > filename base. You could also add some “intelligence” with regards to
> > directories, in order to reduce the amount of effort required to use the
> > command—in case your directories follow some schema or are constant.
> >
> >
> > #!/usr/bin/sh
> >
> > [ "$#" -ne "2" ] && exit 1
> > SRC="$1"
> > DST="$2"
> >
> > SRC_EXT="${SRC##*.}"
> > DST_BASE="${DST%.*}"
> >
> > # remove destination for the case that the extensions differ
> > rm "$DST"
> >
> > mv "$SRC" "${DST_BASE}${SRC_EXT}"
> >
> 
> I finally got a chance to try this.  I saved it and made it executable. 
> It runs but gave me this error. 
> 
> 
> dmv torrent/video_name-old-place.mp4 video-name-new-place.mp4
> bash: /bin/dmv: /usr/bin/sh: bad interpreter: No such file or directory
> dale@fireball ~/Desktop/Crypt/Series $
> 
> 
> My scripting skills are minimal at best.  Still, I kinda got what your
> script was doing.  Those who have known me for a while understand how
> miraculous that is.  ROFL  I did some googling.  It seems to not be able
> to find the 'shebang' part.  Sure enough, sh isn't located in /usr/bin
> here.  It's in /bin tho.  I edited that line so it can find it.  When I
> tried it, it worked but noticed another problem. […]

Well, it would have been boring to provide you with a turn-key solution. ;-)
Congrats on getting it working. In my Arch setup, sh is in /usr/bin. A
flexible solution is to use #!/usr/bin/env sh, which looks the command up
before executing it.

> I added a little . on that last line before the extension bit.  I'm a
> happy camper.

Give me a nudge if you want the more luxurious version with interactive
selection of the overwrite destination. I think I already started a
prototype somewhere, but can’t find it right now.

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