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Originally Posted by Franklin52 Code: ls -1 iq*.bin | awk '{print "mv "$0" "$1"_"$5"_"$7"_"$9}'

There's no need for -1 when the output of ls is not going to a terminal. In fact, there's no need for ls at all:

Code:

printf "%s\n" iq*.bin | awk '{printf  "mv \"$0\" \"%s_%s_%s_%s\"\n", $1, $5, $7, $9}'

(printf is a shell builtin in all the major shells.)