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Top Forums UNIX for Dummies Questions & Answers Find & Replace Post 302742773 by rob171171 on Tuesday 11th of December 2012 02:18:59 PM
Old 12-11-2012
Find & Replace

Hi
I am looking to rename the contents of this dir, each one with a new timestamp, interval of a second for each so it the existing format is on lhs and what I want is to rename each of these to what is on rhs..hopefully it nake sense

Code:
CDR.20060505.150006.gb    CDR.20121211.191500.gb
CDR.20060505.150109.gb    CDR.20121211.191501.gb
CDR.20060505.150216.gb    CDR.20121211.191502.gb
CDR.20060505.150308.gb    CDR.20121211.191503.gb

Hopefully this makes sense.
I know I need to utilise a sed command in conjunction with some sort of loop

Last edited by rob171171; 12-11-2012 at 03:20 PM.. Reason: more detail
 

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mvdir(1)						      General Commands Manual							  mvdir(1)

NAME
mvdir - Moves (renames) a directory SYNOPSIS
mvdir directory1 directory2 DESCRIPTION
The mvdir command renames directories within a file system. To use mvdir, you must have write permission to directory1 and directory2 and to the parent directories of directory1 and directory2. The directory1 argument must name an existing directory. If directory2 does not exist, directory1 is moved to directory2. If directory2 exists, directory1 becomes a subdirectory of directory2. directory2 cannot be a subdirectory of directory1. Directories cannot be moved across file systems. You can also rename a directory with the mv command. NOTES
This command was made obsolete by the mv command. EXAMPLES
To rename or move a directory to another location, enter: mvdir appendixes manual If manual does not exist, then this renames the directory appendixes to manual. If a directory named manual already exists, this moves appendixes and its contents to manual/appendixes. In other words, appendixes becomes a subdirectory of manual. SEE ALSO
Commands: mkdir(1), mv(1) Functions: rename(2) mvdir(1)
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