[plug] It's alive... It's ALIVE!
Nick Bannon
nick at ucc.gu.uwa.edu.au
Thu Oct 12 23:29:03 WST 2000
On Thu, Oct 12, 2000 at 11:15:12PM +0800, Nick Bannon wrote:
[...]
> mv "$i" "`echo $i | sed 's/\.jpg$/_orig.jpg/'`"
> mv "$TMPFILE" "$i"
[...]
Oops, the other thing I was going to tweak was this ;
mv -i "$i" "`echo $i | sed 's/\.jpg$/_orig.jpg/'`"
mv -i "$TMPFILE" "$i"
mv -i is a good precaution when testing these sorts of scripts. It means
that it stops and asks you before overwriting files - something you
usually want to avoid unless you do it deliberately with a ">"...
Nick.
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