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# 1  
Old 01-05-2012
Simple renaming
Hi

Having many filenames in a folder containing the string "-DATE" (e.g. : Nbr_Name-DATE_2011.txt). I would like to remove the "-DATE" in each filename to get just: Nbr_Name_2011.txt . Know its easy but somehow it wont work. Tried it like that:
Code:
for i in `ls *-DATE*`; do mv "$i" "${i/-DATE/}";

but its not working....

Thanks for answers
Jurgen
# 2  
Old 01-05-2012
Hope this helps:

Code:
for i in *-DATE*;do mv -vv "$i" "${i/\-DATE/}";done

`Nbr_Name-DATE_2011.txt' -> `Nbr_Name_2011.txt'

# 3  
Old 01-05-2012
thanks for the help but its not working, i got the error message: "${i/\-DATE/}": bad substitution....
(using ksh)
Jurgen
# 4  
Old 01-05-2012
Hi,

Your code

Code:
for i in `ls *-DATE*`; do mv "$i" "${i/-DATE/}";

New Code:-

Code:
for i in `ls *-DATE*`; do mv "$i" "${i/-DATE/}"; done

Note :- Just add "done" to your code
Smilie
# 5  
Old 01-05-2012
my code is producing the same error message than the suggestion of in2nix4life....bad substitution
# 6  
Old 01-05-2012
Try the new code given above ,

I have tried in LINUX(REH4) , using bash shell.
# 7  
Old 01-05-2012
not working....
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