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Top Forums Shell Programming and Scripting Batch changing file extensions Post 302190376 by cdines on Tuesday 29th of April 2008 12:17:14 PM
Old 04-29-2008
Data Batch changing file extensions
We are moving from an OpenVMS server to a Unix server and I have a problem with ftp'ing files.

When I ftp the VMS server from the Unix server, I need to "mget" some files, for example "mget test_file*.txt;". The semicolon is necessary because OpenVMS has multiple versions of the file (eg test_file.txt;1, test_file.txt;2, etc).

When I do this i end up with the file "test_file.txt;2". I then need to convert this to remove the semicolon.

I have tried various methods and have found one that works :

for file in *.txt*; do
noext="${file%.*}"
mv "$file" "${noext#*.}.txt"
done

However, I have problems with this :

1. it renames ALL .txt files even if they have no ";" and version number.
2. it will only do one file extension at a time.
3. it is inefficient

What I want is to say "for all files with a semicolon in the file extension, rename the file to everything to the left of the semicolon".

Better yet, "give me all files matching *.txt; from theVMS server, and create them on the Unix server without the ;"

Any suggestions would be appreciated.
 

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XCLIP-COPYFILE(1)					      General Commands Manual						 XCLIP-COPYFILE(1)

NAME

       xclip-copyfile, xclip-cutfile, xclip-pastefile - copy and move files via the X clipboard

SYNOPSIS

       xclip-copyfile [-p] FILES...

       xclip-cutfile [-p] FILES...

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DESCRIPTION

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       xclip-cutfile copies the files, but also deletes them afterwards.

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EXAMPLES

       Copying a file to a remote host

       [maggie.lkpg.cendio.se ~]$ echo "A file created on ${HOSTNAME}" > file1
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       [sofie.homeip.net ~/doc]$ xclip-pastefile
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       A file created on maggie.lkpg.cendio.se

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