Hello everyone,

I have a script:

Code: [Select]FILE$i=`ls ~/Desktop/File_Converted/`
mkdir /tmp/$FILE
mv ~/Desktop/PIX_Converted/* /tmp/$FILE/$FILE
The I do some stuff to the file.  When I am done doing that stuff I delete the directory and the file.  This is fine as far as it goes, but the problem is that if another file is dropped into File_Converted directory before I am doing doing stuff to the file I am currently working with it will change the value of the $FILE variable before the script has completed which will mess up the stuff I am doing with the file.

What I'd like to do is use a variable set up where the variable is, say, $FILE1.  I check to see if $FILE1 is defined and, if not, use it.  If it is defined, then try $FILE2, etc...  In the end, when I am done, I want to RECLAIM the variable so $FILE1 get set back to null again and the next file dropped in can use it again.

Any help would be greatly appreciated.  I'm new to this so I don't know where to begin.

Thanks!

Dan  How about using a loop instead of numbering the files?  Something like this:

Code: [Select]FCDIR=~/Desktop/File_Converted
for FILE in $FCDIR/*; do

    # Remove the FINAL slash and everything before it
    NAME="${FILE##*/}"
   
    mkdir "/tmp/$NAME"  ||  exit
    mv -v "$FILE" "/tmp/$NAME/"

    # Do processing ...
done
Note that I used quotes to allow for NAMES with SPACES, but if you're sure no filenames have spaces, you could leave them out.