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Top Forums UNIX for Dummies Questions & Answers copy and rename list of files Post 63995 by kinmak on Friday 25th of February 2005 10:52:48 PM
Old 02-25-2005
Thx for all reply first. To be more specific, this is my data..

SSSBR101R01A123.D20041224.TXT

I want to copy this file to another directory with a new name

SSSBR101.R01.A123.RPTDUMMY.D20041224.20040226.183033.BIN
|________|
This is the current date and time yyyymmdd.HHmmss

=========================
converning the solution given above.. I try the follwing and put the news files in teh same dir after renaming and simpfy the rename convention..but I got this error when I try to run the script..

[devuser]/project/sfs/ostdev/ftp/snd/ondemand/rpt_txt: ls
SFSBR101R01I123.D20050131.TXT SFSBR101R01ITLS.D20050131.TXT
SFSBR101R01IABF.D20050131.TXT rename.ksh
[devuser]/project/sfs/ostdev/ftp/snd/ondemand/rpt_txt: ls
SFSBR101R01I123.D20050131.TXT SFSBR101R01ITLS.D20050131.TXT
SFSBR101R01IABF.D20050131.TXT rename.ksh
[devuser]/project/sfs/ostdev/ftp/snd/ondemand/rpt_txt: cat rename.ksh
#! /bin/sh

ls *.TXT | while read file
do
cp "$file" ${file%.*}.`date '+%Y%m%d%H%M%S'`.TXT
done
^D[devuser]/project/sfs/ostdev/ftp/snd/ondemand/rpt_txt: ls -l rename.ksh
-rwxr-xr-x 1 devuser dba 106 Feb 26 11:24 rename.ksh
[devuser]/project/sfs/ostdev/ftp/snd/ondemand/rpt_txt: rename.ksh
ksh: rename.ksh: not found
[devuser]/project/sfs/ostdev/ftp/snd/ondemand/rpt_txt:

why?
 

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let(1)                                                             User Commands                                                            let(1)

NAME
let - shell built-in function to evaluate one or more arithmetic expressions SYNOPSIS
ksh let arg... DESCRIPTION
ksh Each arg is a separate "arithmetic expression" to be evaluated. EXIT STATUS
The following exit values are returned: 0 The value of the last expression is non-zero. 1 The value of the last expression is zero. ATTRIBUTES
See attributes(5) for descriptions of the following attributes: +-----------------------------+-----------------------------+ | ATTRIBUTE TYPE | ATTRIBUTE VALUE | +-----------------------------+-----------------------------+ |Availability |SUNWcsu | +-----------------------------+-----------------------------+ SEE ALSO
ksh(1), set(1), typeset(1), attributes(5) SunOS 5.10 15 Apr 1994 let(1)
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