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The Something Awful Forums > Discussion > Serious Hardware/Software Crap > The Usenet Megathread - No invite discussion!
 
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Crush
Jan 18, 2004
jot bought me this account, I now have to suck him off.
So, running OS X 10.6.7 with SABnzbd+. I am trying to make a script and have not had any luck doing it. I know it is a very simple task, but for some reason by bash-fu isn't strong with this script.

Say I download Ubuntu 11.04, it finishes and it unpacks to a directory called "Ubuntu 11 04." Inside of this folder, is the actual burnable image file as well as the associated NFO file. I want to move that burnable image file and that NFO to the Desktop and then delete the folder "Ubuntu 11 04." How do I go about doing this?

Any help is GREATLY appreciated!

Edit: I have tried this and several slight variations to this. The weird thing is, "$1" shows the path, $DIR_DEST echoes /Users/Crush/Desktop/, and when running the same thing in Terminal.app as separate commands, it works fine. The strange thing is the script always wants to complain saying something along the lines of "/Users/Crush/Download/Linux ISO/* /Users/Crush/Desktop/*" does not exist, when they in fact do.

code:
#!/bin/bash

DIR_DEST=${HOME}/Desktop/

mv "$1/*" $DIR_DEST

Crush fucked around with this message at 02:18 on May 16, 2011

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Crush
Jan 18, 2004
jot bought me this account, I now have to suck him off.

FISHMANPET posted:

I think that when you're putting the first parameter in quotes, it's not going to expand that *, so it's literally looking for a file named * in the Linux ISO directory. Try putting the quotes around just $1.

This was it. I love you. Thanks!

* # ¿ May 16, 2011 03:47
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