Thank u guys for the replay.
I think rename doesn't work for this situation as we need to look for a particular expression and replace it with a new pattern.
Why not ? rename is for renaming right ?! what expression you are thinking of ?
Hi All,
I have a folder name as postscript folder and it contains the following postscript files.
package1.ps
package2.ps
package3.ps
when i am renaming all the ps files to xps files by using the following command
mv /postscript/*.ps /postscript/*.xps
Then i am getting the... (4 Replies)
I splited a file into parts, then i wrote a script to convert the format of the file names to this: part1.dat part2.dat
but I wonder why part.dat is also created knowing that the k variable starts from 1
rm -f part*
$(split -b $1 file.1 part_)
set k = 1
for i in $(ls part_*)
do
mv -f... (1 Reply)
Hi ,
Need help to rename the files in a folder. The .xml needs to be removed from the middle and appended to the end as in the example shown .
Example From:
TestMessage.xml2010-10-19_20_21_08
TestMessage.xml2010-10-20_20_21_09
TestMessage.xml2010-10-21_20_21_08... (4 Replies)
Hi All
I have a folder that contains hundreds of file with a names
3.msa
4.msa
21.msa
6.msa
345.msa
456.msa
98.msa
...
...
...
I need rename each of this file by adding "core_" in the begiining of each file such as
core_3.msa
core_4.msa
core_21.msa (4 Replies)
Hi All,
I am trying to change the XML filename in a folder to the rootelement in the XML file.
Example: TestMsg2010-10-19_20_20_54.xml
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8" ?>
<R1Msg TimeStamp="2010-10-19T08:49:08.000000Z>
<TestRec>
<ID>1000</ID>
</TestRec>
</R1Msg>
Wanted to extract the... (8 Replies)
Hello,
I want to rename more than 100 files. These files have "?" in there existing file name but I want to rename files to there first part before "?" token. I have tried using for loop but it isn't working so help following is the sample filename and for loop that am trying to use:
example of... (3 Replies)
Hi, Hope someone can help... I'm pretty much new to unix and can only do basic commands.
I have an issue where by every day I need to schedule a job to look in a folder with a name format of .IP. will be different each day (when the day is over the folder extension changes), and rename any... (5 Replies)
Hi,
I have 1000 *.txt files in a folder and I would like to rename them data1.txt through data1000.txt. The order does not matter or the names of the initial input files. How would I go about doing that? Thanks! (1 Reply)
hello
does someone want to help me for this one ?
i want to rename files & a folder according to the similarities in filenames
for example :
the file with the good name
cglogo tougl1953 dgmel bogd 01 -- ttgductoog ggdté gollogtd.ext1the others files needed to be renamed
cglogo... (5 Replies)
Hi Team,
I'm new to Unix shell scripting .
I've the following requirement
A folder contains the list of files with the following format
ab.name.11.first
ab.name.12.second
ab.name.13.third
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I have to rename the above file to like below
... (6 Replies)
Discussion started by: smile689
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LEARN ABOUT CENTOS
rename
RENAME(1) User Commands RENAME(1)NAME
rename - rename files
SYNOPSIS
rename [options] expression replacement file...
DESCRIPTION
rename will rename the specified files by replacing the first occurrence of expression in their name by replacement.
OPTIONS -v, --verbose
Give visual feedback which files where renamed, if any.
-V, --version
Display version information and exit.
-s, --symlink
Peform rename on symlink target
-h, --help
Display help text and exit.
EXAMPLES
Given the files foo1, ..., foo9, foo10, ..., foo278, the commands
rename foo foo0 foo?
rename foo foo0 foo??
will turn them into foo001, ..., foo009, foo010, ..., foo278. And
rename .htm .html *.htm
will fix the extension of your html files.
WARNING
The renaming has no safeguards. If the user has permission to rewrite file names, the command will perform the action without any ques-
tions. For example, the result can be quite drastic when the command is run as root in the /lib directory. Always make a backup before
running the command, unless you truly know what you are doing.
SEE ALSO mmv(1), mv(1)AVAILABILITY
The rename command is part of the util-linux package and is available from ftp://ftp.kernel.org/pub/linux/utils/util-linux/.
util-linux June 2011 RENAME(1)