Shake Command Line Question

[user_deleted]

Hi Folks

I'm trying to do a bash file in mac os x shell to import a bunch of files at the same time and open shake after this to avoid the same process zillion of times.
In command line I put:

shake nameofthefile.#.tif -gui

And then it starts shake and file in this particular image. But I would like to declare a line that I can put the name of the this node as well, because It opens shake and the name of this image is "sfilein", that is useless for me because is very important to see the name of the file.

Is there any command that does this? For 1 image is ok because I can change inside shake quickly, but the point is for a lot of images...

Thanks for your attention

[user_deleted]

not sure how to do it in shake but you could save the script, open it in your favorite text editor and grep through it...

for example:

SFileIn1 = SFileIn("/path/to/nameofthefile.#.tif",
"Auto", 0, 0, "v1.1", "0", "", 0);
SFileIn2 = SFileIn("/path/to/nameofanotherfile.#.tif",
"Auto", 0, 0, "v1.1", "0", "", 0);
SFileIn3 =....

so...
search for: "SFileIn"[anynumber]"("/path/to/"[anyname]"
replace with: "[namefromlastsearch]"[number]"("/path/to/"[name]"

i don't use grep enough to remember the exact syntax, the BBedit (and possibly textwrangler) manual has an excellent explanation, as do tons of websites.

i'm sure there are much more elegant ways to do this, but if you're stuck give it a try.
++ chris