Bash, Move file help in variable

Question

for i in *.txt
do 
    #Text files 
    echo  $i
    #checking for existing files
    if [ -f ~/txt/$i ] 
    then 
        j=1
        #Stripping .txt from the files
        temp=${i%".txt"}
        #appending filaname with counter "($j)"
        i=$temp($j).txt
        #move to folder /txt
        mv $i ~/txt
    else
        mv $i ~/txt
    fi
done

My loop checks a folder for an existing file, if that file name exists, the file name is appended (ex (1), (2) etc. Once the file name has been renamed and it is held in $i I try to mv it but I'm getting: mv: cannot stat 'list(1).txt': No such file or directory

I tried mv {$i} ~/txt, mv [$i] ~/txt etc...no luck. Any ideas?

Answer 1

You are overwriting the actually name of the file here:

  i=$temp($j).txt

Instead, use a new variable for the new name. Something like this.

  newname=$tmp($j).txt
  #move to folder /txt
  mv $i ~/txt/$newname