fileinspector

#!/bin/bash
# Author: Napoleon Martin
# fileinpector.sh
# Desciption: The script searches a directory for files, looks up their filetype in the 
# filetable.txt and rename the files using the correct extension using
# pattern matching. It must be able to work more than once without appending 
# pattern duplicate extensions eg. file.txt.txt is not acceptable.

# Makes sure that fileinspector.sh can handle a single file or directory.
set -x
# Search in a file or directory for 

#read -p "Enter a file or directory: " var1
#echo $var1

file=$1





if [ -e $file ];then
	# file --mime-type -b $file
	for file in $file
	do
		if [ -d "$file" ]
		then
			echo " $file is a directory"
		elif [ -f "$file" ] 
			echo "$file is a file"
#fi

printf "file does not exist"



var1=$(file --mime-type -b)
ls $file  
grep var1 
#echo $file | sort

gistfile1.txt

text/plain%%%txt
image/jpeg%%%jpeg
application/zip%%%zip
audio/mpeg%%%mpeg
text/x-shellscript%%%sh
video/mp4%%%mp4
video/x-flv%%%flv
image/gif%%%gif
audio/x-wav%%%wav
application/x-empty
application/x-gzip%%%gz

lab6.9.sh

#!/bin/bash
#This is lab6 by Napoleon M
# calls tablemaker.sh
#

#test extension
testX(){
	if [ ! $( grep $1 filetable.txt) ]
	then
		echo $1 >> filetable.txt
		lab5=$(which tablemaker.sh)
		lab5
	fi
}

addext(){
	ntype=$(grep $1 filetable.txt)
	ext=${ntype##*%}
	if [ "$ext" ] && [ ! "${i#*.}" = $ext ]; then
	
	echo mv "$i" "$i.$ext"
	fi
}

isDir(){

	if [ -d $1 ]
	then
		echo "directory"
	fi










Arg1=$1
for i in $(ls $Arg1)
do
	Type=$(file --mime-type -b $i)
testX $Type
addext $Type
done

Some code I found that I am thinking about integrating;
read fname

if [ -z "$fname" ]
then
exit
fi

terminal=tty
exec < $fname
count=1
while read line
do
echo $line

count=`expr $count+1`

done
exec < $terminal

my_dir=$1

for x in $( ls $my_dir ); do

stuff

done

Slackware is teaching you well.

: ^)

Yes I am getting my C legs and scripting the latest bash voyages!

This is more like what I need is lab6.9.sh

I got some stuff up. check it out and comment please.