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Top Forums UNIX for Dummies Questions & Answers [SOLVED] Rename multiple files Post 302739675 by Corona688 on Tuesday 4th of December 2012 05:06:36 PM
Old 12-04-2012
That is a useless use of ls * and useless use of backticks. You do not need ls to use *, that's the shell's job. You're only getting the list of files out of ls when you use * because you're cramming the list of files into ls in the first place.

Furthermore, you don't need to cram everything on one line. ; can be replaced by a new line for better readability in nearly all cases.

Code:
i=1

for FILE in "t_ "*
do
        echo mv "$FILE" t${i}.dat
        let i=i+1
done

Remove the echo once you've tested and are sure it does what you want.
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g_principal(1)					 GROMACS suite, VERSION 4.5.4-dev-20110404-bc5695c				    g_principal(1)

NAME
g_principal - calculates axes of inertia for a group of atoms VERSION 4.5.4-dev-20110404-bc5695c SYNOPSIS
g_principal -f traj.xtc -s topol.tpr -n index.ndx -a1 axis1.dat -a2 axis2.dat -a3 axis3.dat -om moi.dat -[no]h -[no]version -nice int -b time -e time -dt time -tu enum -[no]w -[no]foo DESCRIPTION
g_principal calculates the three principal axes of inertia for a group of atoms. FILES
-f traj.xtc Input Trajectory: xtc trr trj gro g96 pdb cpt -s topol.tpr Input Structure+mass(db): tpr tpb tpa gro g96 pdb -n index.ndx Input, Opt. Index file -a1 axis1.dat Output Generic data file -a2 axis2.dat Output Generic data file -a3 axis3.dat Output Generic data file -om moi.dat Output Generic data file OTHER OPTIONS
-[no]hno Print help info and quit -[no]versionno Print version info and quit -nice int 19 Set the nicelevel -b time 0 First frame (ps) to read from trajectory -e time 0 Last frame (ps) to read from trajectory -dt time 0 Only use frame when t MOD dt = first time (ps) -tu enum ps Time unit: fs, ps, ns, us, ms or s -[no]wno View output .xvg, .xpm, .eps and .pdb files -[no]foono Dummy option to avoid empty array SEE ALSO
gromacs(7) More information about GROMACS is available at <http://www.gromacs.org/>. Mon 4 Apr 2011 g_principal(1)
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