How to move text files to parent folder

Someone had asked a scripting question about how to move all .txt files to their respective parent folders. I can't post an answer there since when I click REPLY, it shows me a blank screen.

Anyway, here are the requirements.

Here is the script.

Code:

var str list ; lf -rn "*.txt" "folder1" > $list
while ($list <> "")
do
    var str file ; lex "1" $list > $file
    # $file now has the full path of one file. Strip off the last instance of
    # /.../ . If that does not exist in full path, this file is at the top level.
    var str parent ; stex -r -p "]^/&/^" $file > $parent
    if ($parent=="")
        # There is no parent folder to copy this file to.
        echo $file " is already at the top-most level directory."
    else
        system move ("\""+$file+"\"") ("\""+$parent+"\"")
    endif
done

This script is in biterscripting ( http://www.biterscripting.com/install.html ) .


Patrick

 

Hi Patrick,

can you tell me which browser and browser version you're using, and which OS? Does your browser accept cookies from HowtoForge?

 

biterscripting mv (system) command

nicephotog:

Thanks for your tip. But if you were to execute the mv command from the command prompt, you would have to do this folder by folder - first cd to a folder, then do mv. No ? (I guess the original poster was looking for a script to do all of that in just one command.)

falko:

Thanks for your consideration. Actually, it (the blank screen) is not happening here. I am able to post a reply here. So, I guess that was only a temporary phenomenon.

Patrick

 

I like the idea, cool!