Cygwin File

DustinB3403

So I need to check a iPhone backup to determine which files are the voicemails. Using cygwin I can do this, manually, item by item but that's a pain in the butt.

How do I run the "file" command against everything in this folder if there are no extensions for me to hit on. IE I can't use .

coliver

Is Cygwin a bash implementation on Windows? If that is the case:

FILES=/path/to/files/*
For x in $FILES
 do file $x

Or something like that.

DustinB3403

Nevermind, I think I've figured something out that will work.

But would be nice is to take a list from a CSV and rename every file with the .amr extension

coliver

@DustinB3403 said:

Nevermind, I think I've figured something out that will work.

But would be nice is to take a list from a CSV and rename every file with the .amr extension

I'm not a bash expert (or Cygwin) but try this:

cat files.csv | while read line
do
 mv $file $file.amr
done

I think. There are better ways to do this but that should get it done for the most part.

DustinB3403

Doesn't seem to work

scottalanmiller

It is Windows so the UNIX mv command might be the issue. Do this with the straight text file you made, the CSV will not work without a lot of extra processing.

cat files.csv | while read line
do
 echo $line
done

coliver

@scottalanmiller Isn't Cygwin a bash emulation for Windows? Or am I thinking about something else?

scottalanmiller

@coliver you used line as your variable but then used $file, that won't work

coliver

@scottalanmiller said:

@coliver you used line as your variable but then used $file, that won't work

Doh, I knew something didn't look right.

DustinB3403

 cat file.txt | while read line; do mv $line $line.amr; done

Got it with the above.

Thanks guys

DustinB3403

Time to build a how to