Greetings to all!!:b:
I have one root folder containing several other folders inside it. This tree structure is deep. And the files are of similar extension.
I need to start at the top level and recursively search and rename all the files with say .a extension to .b .
This is the code to... (7 Replies)
I am trying for loop to rename file extension from .txt to .html :
as below :
for i in *.txt; do mv "$i" `basename $i`.html; done
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But this renames a file file1.txt as file1.txt.html
anyone know how get avoid .html added after .txt ?
it... (4 Replies)
I searched the forum, but there was different type of rename.
Hello.
I have files in folder.
Like:
xxxxxxxx1.html
or
xxxxxxxx2.txt
or
xxxxxxxx3.tar.gz
and how to rename or change file extension case to
xxxxxxxx1.htm
or
xxxxxxx2.TXT
or (5 Replies)
Hi guys,
i had many files like filename.20110520_20110519_050030
i have to rename the file by removint the last numerics ..
i.e filename.dat
i tried with cut command and removed the numerics but i'm not able to add .dat to the files.
is there any command insted of cut command to... (1 Reply)
hi!
i want to rename all files with no extension with the extension DAT.
with this command ls |grep -v "\\." i can list files but i dont know how i am going to rename them..
so
i tried
FILE_LIST=ls |grep -v "\\."
for TEST_FILE in ${FILE_LIST}
do
mv $TEST_FILE... (2 Replies)
Hi,
I am trying to make all file in the directory uppercase but not their extension (ex: image.jpg becoming IMAGE.jpg)
here is code i am trying.
$ ls | while read file
do
name=${file%%.*}
newfilename=$(echo $name | tr 'a-z' 'A-Z')
mv $file $newfilename
done
any suggestions of... (4 Replies)
Hi,
I have files with filenames as below.
SGM Daily Sales Email-en-us-05312012.xlwa
I want to rename it in .xls. I am writing a script to change this, as there can be multiple files in subfolders.
I have the following script.
#!/bin/ksh
for oldfile in $(find... (1 Reply)
I have a list file that contains names of many files. I am reading one file name at a time using for loop
Then I like to create one more list file but with the file extension changed to "ctl".
Note: The file name can have any number of dots ".". But the extension after the last dot should be... (4 Replies)
After reading the manual of the command rename I would like to apply it to a folder with a couple of files containing old style dots before the file-type, e.g. up.to.the.roof.avi. So I'd like to rename them without the dots in between. Therefore I tried it the following way
rename -f -n ... (4 Replies)
I have a specific set (all ending with .bam) of downloaded files in a directory /home/cmccabe/Desktop/NGS/API/2-15-2016. What I am trying to do is use a match to $2 in name to rename the downloaded files. To make things a more involved the date of the folder is unique and in the header of name... (1 Reply)
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realpath
realpath(3X)realpath(3X)NAME
realpath - resolve pathname
SYNOPSIS DESCRIPTION
The function derives, from the pathname pointed to by file_name, an absolute pathname that names the same file, whose resolution does not
involve or symbolic links. The generated pathname is stored, up to a maximum of bytes, in the buffer pointed to by resolved_name.
RETURN VALUE
On successful completion, returns a pointer to the resolved name. Otherwise, returns a null pointer and sets errno to indicate the error,
and the contents of the buffer pointed to by resolved_name are undefined.
ERRORS
The function will fail if:
Read or search permission was denied for a component of
file_name.
Either the file_name or resolved_name argument is a null pointer.
An error occurred while reading from the file system.
Too many symbolic links were encountered in resolving
path.
The file_name argument is longer than or a pathname component is longer than
A component of file_name does not name an existing file or file_name points to an empty string.
A component of the path prefix is not a directory.
The function may fail if:
Pathname resolution of a symbolic link produced an intermediate result whose
length exceeds
Insufficient storage space is available.
SEE ALSO sysconf(2), getcwd(3C), thread_safety(5), glossary(9), <stdlib.h>.
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realpath(3X)