Solaris

What be the contents of the variables DPATH, test, and FN? Where are those variables defined?

Hello caba_jones,

Please use code tags as per forum rules into your posts. I think above error shows because command is not able to find files.
So could you please try following, seems you haven't used correct variable names.

Code:

DPATH=/your/actual/path/where_files_are_present
for file in ${DPATH}/*.txt.pgp; do  mv ${file}  ${file%_*}$(date +%Y%m%d%H%m)"test.txt.pgp" ; done

I haven't tested above but you should make sure you are using correct variable names and value of variable named DPATH is set as per your system.

Thanks,
R. Singh

The permissions to rename a file are required on the directory. The file exists as just a collection of data blocks on disk somewhere and it is the directory that holds the file name, references when to find the data blocks, file permissions etc. To rename the file, you are actually editing the directory.

If you are in the appropriate directory/directories, can you run the following:-

Code:

id -G
ls -ld .

This will show some of your account details and the directory details.



Robin