Just for fun, here is the way I would most likely currently do this – using the fish shell instead of bash. Bash is, of course, more standard and concise, but the fish version is much more readable – fish has IMO much of the same elegance and delight as Python. Fewer special characters ($), more intelligent variable handling (less worrying about remembering to quote everything), etc.
Less street cred for producing esoteric incantations though. :-)
for f in(find .-iname"*.pdf")set file (basename$f)set number (string match -r"\((.*)\)"$f)[2]
set number (printf"%02d"$number)cp-v$f"./Output/$number - $file"
end
(The string matching and printf could be combined into one line, but since fish has multi-line command editing as a standard feature, doing the two things separately makes the code more readable.)
Just for fun, here is the way I would most likely currently do this – using the fish shell instead of bash. Bash is, of course, more standard and concise, but the fish version is much more readable – fish has IMO much of the same elegance and delight as Python. Fewer special characters (
$), more intelligent variable handling (less worrying about remembering to quote everything), etc.Less street cred for producing esoteric incantations though. :-)
(The string matching and
printfcould be combined into one line, but since fish has multi-line command editing as a standard feature, doing the two things separately makes the code more readable.)This looks great!
Much easier to read and understand than the bash pipe.