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# 1  
Old 08-09-2010
renaming files globally
I am attempting to use a shell script to append the string "AAA" to the beginning of over 400 files and I am just missing that little piece to finish.

I am still a newbie and I am still learning scripting. This is what I have so far:

Code:
#!/usr/bin/ksh


find /home/vedder191/AAA_revised -type f -name "*.pdf" | while read oldname
do
newname=`echo $oldname >> AAA <---- Knowing that this won't work
mv $oldname $newname
done

So basically I am trying to append the AAA to the beginning of the name of all pdf's in the AAA_revised directory.
Last edited by pludi; 08-09-2010 at 04:01 PM.. Reason: code tags, please...
# 2  
Old 08-09-2010
is this what your wanting?

Code:
oldname="my.pdf"
newname="AAA$oldname"

mv $oldname $newname

# 3  
Old 08-09-2010
Almost but it errors because it tries to append the "AAA" to the beginning of the entire directory. AAA/home/vedder191/AAA_revised cannot rename
# 4  
Old 08-09-2010
Code:
 
$ oldname=awk.man
$ ls -l $oldname
-rw-r--r--   1 rx4521   staff      14737 Jun 16 11:19 awk.man
$ ls -l AAA*
AAA*: No such file or directory
$ mv ${oldname} $(dirname ${oldname})/AAA$(basename ${oldname})
$ ls -l AAA*
-rw-r--r--   1 rx4521   staff      14737 Jun 16 11:19 AAAawk.man
$

# 5  
Old 08-09-2010
Code:
find /home/vedder191/AAA_revised -type f -name "*.pdf" | awk -F"/" '{printf "mv "$0" ";$NF="AAA"$NF;}1' OFS="/" | sh

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