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Top Forums UNIX for Advanced & Expert Users Argument list too long w/ sed Post 302850817 by openthomas on Thursday 5th of September 2013 05:58:34 PM
Old 09-05-2013
That worked except you missed a comma. Thanks !

Finished script

Code:
#!/bin/sh

ls | while read fname 
do 
 md5sum $fname | gsed -e 's/\([^ ]*\) \(.*\(\..*\)\)$/mv -v \2 \1\3/e'
done

 

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