Question

I am trying to recreate the folder structure from a source in a target location and perform a command on each file found in the process using BASH.Based on some feedback and some searches I am trying to get this solution to work properly. Right now it is breaking because the windows folders have directories with spaces that it refuses to find.

I was able to get this to work after installing some additional features for my cygwin.

source='/cygdrive/z/austin1/QA/Platform QA/8.0.0/Test Cases'
target='/cygdrive/c/FullBashScripts'
# let ** be recursive
shopt -s globstar
for file in "$source"/**/*.restomatic; do
    cd "${file%/test.restomatic}"
    locationNew="$target${file#$source}"
    mkdir -p "$(dirname "$target${file#$source}")"
sed -e 's/\\/\//g' test.restomatic | awk '{if ($1 ~ /^(LOAD|IMPORT)/) system("cat " $2); else print;}' | sed -e 's/\\/\//g' |awk '{if ($1 ~ /^(LOAD|IMPORT)/) system("cat " $2); else print;}' > $locationNew
done

Answer 1

If your bash version is 4 or above, this should work:

source="testing/web testing/"
target="c:/convertedFiles/"
# let ** be recursive
shopt -s globstar
for file in "$source"/**/*.test; do
    newfile= "$target/${file#$source}"
    mkdir -p "$(dirname "$newfile")"
    conversion.command "$file" > "$newfile"
done

${file#$source} lops $source off the beginning of $file.

If you can guarantee that no files have newlines in their name, you can use find to get the names:

source="testing/web testing/"
target="c:/convertedFiles/"

find "$source" -name \*.test | while read file; do
    newfile= "$target/${file#$source}"
    mkdir -p "$(dirname "$newfile")"
    conversion.command "$file" > "$newfile"
done