Shell Programming and Scripting

Hi Guys,

I need a help. I have 1130 zip files. Each one of them has files including 1 html file with long file name (includes special charactors, Alphabetic and numbers).

I have copied all 1130 zip files to my linux system and extracted using below command.

Code:

Find . -name "*.zip" -exec unzip {} \;

Now, I have got 1130 folders, each of them has files including 1 html files with long name as I told earlier.

All I want now, I want to find all html files and rename it in the same folder (i.e abc.html), because since It's html files I don't want to move this files to different folder.

I tried this command going to each of the folder. It works.

Code:

mv [file_name.html] abc.html

or

Code:

rename [A-z,0-9]*.html abc.html *.html

but how long this will take to do it for 1130 folder .

Please I need a script to do all at once.

Thanks,
Rajmani

I would suggest
1. do a find for all the html files from the directory where the files will be there
2. store the o/p in a file
3. in a shell script, read the file line by line with a variable counter set to increment for each line read
4. mv $readline $var.html

cheers,
Devaraj Takhellambam

Hi Devaraj,

Thanks for your reply.

Here is the example of "html" file which each one of the folder contains;

Code:

UJResults.aspx?sToDay=0&sToMonth=10&sToYear=2002&sCivilCriminal=Both&sFromDay=0&sFromMonth=10&sFromYear=2002&sJudgementNumber=&iHearingType=&iSubject=&sOffenceType=&sJudge=&sDivision=&iCourtID=&sParties=&Exact=False.1.html

I don't know, the idea works for this long file name.

I am beginner to the script, If you give me more input. It would be great.

Thanks for your help.

do something like

Code:

#!/bin/ksh
mkdir htmlfiles
find . -name "*.html" -print 2>/dev/null 1>findlist

i=1
while read file
do
mv $file htmlfiles/$i.html
i=`expr $i + 1`
done < findlist
echo $i

cheers,
Devaraj

It doesn't work.

mv: target `htmlfiles/1.html' is not a directory
mv: target `htmlfiles/2.html' is not a directory
mv: target `htmlfiles/3.html' is not a directory

However "htmlfiles" directory created is part of the script.

I really don't want to move these files to "htmlfiles" directory, since this html has supporting image files in the directory. I have just wanted to find and rename in the same directory.

is there anythink like this to rename and save in the directory.

Are you ok giving the same name to all these files?

If so, I believe you could just do a

Code:

find . -type f -name "*.html" -exec mv {} abc.html \;

or

Code:

find . -type f -name "*.html" | xargs mv abc.html

Hi Devaraj,

Finaly I have done with it. Thanks for your help.

Here is the actual script I wanted.

#!/bin/sh
find . -name "*.zip" -exec unzip {} \;
find . -name "*.zip" -exec rm {} \;
for file in *;
do
if [ -d $file ]; then
cd $file; rename [A-Z,a-z,0-9,_,=,]*.html abc.html *.html
cd ..
mv $file htmlfile
fi
done

Regards,
Rajmani