Ubuntu – Bash script with loop does not echo

12.04bashechoscripts

In this script, the second echo statement doesn't do anything.

     #!/bin/bash

echo "Start folder create..."
find . -name "*.zip" | while read filename; do
 foldername="${filename%.*}";
 mkdir -p "$foldername";

 mv "$filename" "$foldername";
echo "made directory $foldername" ;
done;

All the other commands work. What did I do wrong?

Best Answer

You've got it over multi lines, but have the ;.

Your script should look like this:

#! /bin/bash

echo "Start folder create..."
find . -name "*.zip" | while read filename; do

  foldername="${filename%.*}"
  mkdir -p "$foldername"    
  mv "$filename" "$foldername"
  echo "made directory $foldername"
done
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