rename multiple files - Shell Programming and Scripting

antointoronto · #1 (**permalink**) 03-18-2008

Hi,

can anyone have a ksh script to rename multiple files (ie to remove .Z extension of the files)

can someone correct this?

for i in *.Z
do
var1 = substr($i, 1,at(".Z",$i)-1)
mv $i $var1
done

Thanks..
Antony

joeyg · #2 (**permalink**) 03-18-2008

The following does a copy; you can change to the move (mv) command

Code:

> cat copy_csv
#! /bin/bash

for i in *.csv
do
  var1=$(basename "$i" .csv)
  cp $i $var1
done

Franklin52 · #3 (**permalink**) 03-18-2008

Another one:

Code:

ls *.Z|sed 's/\(.*\)\.Z/mv & \1/'|sh

Try this first to be shure you get the right files before sh do the job:

Code:

ls *.Z|sed 's/\(.*\)\.Z/mv & \1/'

Regards

shamrock · #4 (**permalink**) 03-18-2008

Code:

for i in *.Z
do
   mv $i ${i.Z}
done

shamrock · #5 (**permalink**) 03-18-2008

Replace

Code:

mv $i ${i.Z}

with

Code:

mv $i ${i%.Z}

antointoronto · #6 (**permalink**) 03-18-2008

Quote:

Originally Posted by shamrock

Code:

for i in *.Z
do
   mv $i ${i.Z}
done

hi

Thanks for your reply.But I would like to use substring operation.

Thanks

antointoronto · #7 (**permalink**) 03-18-2008

Quote:

Originally Posted by joeyg

The following does a copy; you can change to the move (mv) command

Code:

> cat copy_csv
#! /bin/bash

for i in *.csv
do
  var1=$(basename "$i" .csv)
  cp $i $var1
done

hi

Thanks for your reply.But I would like to use substring operation.

Thanks

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