Hi Alll,

I have a script that we use on the servers to change the name of files that have spaces in the name:

#!/bin/tcsh
set n = 0
foreach f ( * )
echo $f | grep " "
if ( $? == 0 ) then
mv "$f" `echo $f | sed -e "s/ /_/g"`
@ n += 1
endif
end
echo $n changed

I need to write a script which renames all ascii text files in the current directory by adding a number to their names before the “extension”. for example <name>_a<number>.<”extension”> for example creditA, creditB, creditC, debitA get changed to creditA1, creditB2, creditC3, debitA4. That is for changing all the files on the server to have a number in them......

I have this code which is wrong

#!/bin/tcsh
set n = 0
set m = 0
foreach f ( * )
file $f | grep "ascii text"
if ( $? == 0 ) then
mv "$f" `echo $f"_a"$m`
@ n += 1
@ m += 1
endif
end


I need to divide the $f into two parts one part before the . and the other part after the . but I dont know how. Any help

Any help...

How do you plan to identify the files with asciii text names from non-ascii text names?
grep "ascii text" is not going to do it for you.

Also do you want to rename the files to <name>_<number>.<extension> or <name><number>.<extension>? The description you give does not match your code.

try this

ctr=1
for i in *
do
var1=`file $i |awk '{printf "%s\n",$3}'`
if [ $var1 = "text" ]; then
filename=`ls $i | cut -f1 -d "."`
ext=`ls $i |awk -F "." '{printf "%s\n",$2}'`
mv $i $filename$ctr.$ext
ctr=`expr $ctr + 1`
fi
done

Thanks
Antony cecil
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