Shell scripting help...

[servo888]

I have a directory called basedir; inside that directory are subdirectories which contain pictures - IMGXXXX.jpg or picXXXX.JPG (all from various camera sources). I'm trying to create a script that going to surf these directories and copy out the images to an output folder... I need this because I want all the images in one directory, because some images have the same name so they get over written.

something like...

cp -r basedir/ outputdir/[1-100].jpg

But I have no clue how to use the [x-x]; It's in a man page, but I don't know where, so if anybody can point me in the right direction and explain how these brackets function will be great.

[Dana Merrick]

i think you may get a start in

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man bash

[Earthwings]

http://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic-t-119522.html and http://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic-t-93006.html may be a good starting point.

Moved from OTW.