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01-19-2013
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Find and replace mulitple charaters in filenames
I have a virtual pdf printer set up on my server which produces files with the following prefix: Code:
smbprn_00000044_Microsoft_Word_-_OriginalFilename.pdf the number in the center of the file increase by one for each new file. I want to remove all the charaters infront of OriginalFilename.pdf using the following code: Code:
find . -type f -name '*[:smbprn_*_Microsoft_Word_-_*.pdf"]*' | while IFS= read -r; do mv -- "$REPLY" "${REPLY//[:smbprn_*_Microsoft_Word_-_*.pdf\"]}" done;which I modified form here If I run this directly from the command prompt I simply end up with a second > prompt? I think I must be pretty close, any help would be welcome |
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01-19-2013
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Try: Code:
find . -type f -name 'smbprn_*_Microsoft_Word_-_*.pdf' | while read -r; do echo mv -- "$REPLY" "${REPLY/smbprn_*_Microsoft_Word_-_/}"; done;Remove the echo when the command lines look OK. And, I hope your original filename will not have _Microsoft_Word_-_ or smbprn_ . You may also do this with find itself using -exec (with some assumptions). |
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01-19-2013
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Code:
find . -type f -name '*[:smbprn_*_Microsoft_Word_-_*.pdf"]*' | while IFS= read -r; do mv -- "$REPLY" "${REPLY//[:smbprn_*_Microsoft_Word_-_*.pdf\"]}" ;done;Last edited by Scrutinizer; 01-19-2013 at 08:37 AM.. Reason: code tags |
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01-19-2013
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Thanks for the replies; This code: Code:
find . -type f -name '*[:smbprn_*_Microsoft_Word_-_*.pdf"]*' | while IFS= read -r; do mv -- "$REPLY" "${REPLY//[:smbprn_*_Microsoft_Word_-_*.pdf\"]}" ;done;Gives this result: Code:
$ find . -type f -name '*[:smbprn_*_Microsoft_Word_-_*.pdf"]*' | while IFS= read -r; do mv -- "$REPLY" "${REPLY//[:smbprn_*_Microsoft_Word_-_*.pdf\"]}" ;done;
mv: cannot open `./smbprn_00000046_Microsoft_Word_-_Letters2.pdf' for reading: Permission denied
mv: cannot create regular file `/TePage': Permission denied
mv: cannot open `./smbprn_00000045_Microsoft_Word_-_Letters1.pdf' for reading: Permission deniedI get the same result even if run as root, the user I am running the command with has read/write permissions This code: Code:
find . -type f -name 'smbprn_*_Microsoft_Word_-_*.pdf' | while read -r; do echo mv -- "$REPLY" "${REPLY/smbprn_*_Microsoft_Word_-_/}"; done;Does move the files, but I'm not sure where to and the original file are still there: Code:
find . -type f -name 'smbprn_*_Microsoft_Word_-_*.pdf' | while read -r; do echo mv -- "$REPLY" "${REPLY/smbprn_*_Microsoft_Word_-_/}"; done;
mv -- ./smbprn_00000046_Microsoft_Word_-_Letters2.pdf ./Letters2.pdf
mv -- ./smbprn_00000045_Microsoft_Word_-_Letters1.pdf ./Letters1.pdfbut then: Code:
$ ls smbprn_00000045_Microsoft_Word_-_Letters1.pdf Test_Page.pdf smbprn_00000046_Microsoft_Word_-_Letters2.pdf I am running these commands from within the directory containing the files |
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01-19-2013
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Hey, I told you to remove the echo.
I was echo'ing the mv command lines so that you could know what is being moved... |
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01-19-2013
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Just out of interest what would be the easiest way to append the file date to the filename for these files? Thanks |
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01-19-2013
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How do you mean? Please elaborate with an example.
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| filename, multiple characters, remove |
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