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# 8  
Old 01-30-2019
Thanks Rudic.


It working perfectly.Can you explain the below code.


Code:
 t=${i/"file"/"newfile"}

--- Post updated at 12:27 PM ---

Hi Don,


Apologies for delay message. My request is simple and below shown and rudic code worked.


i/p


Code:
atomic@atomic-VirtualBox:~/Shell_Practice/rename$ ls -lrt
total 8
-rw-r--r-- 1 atomic atomic   0 Jan 25 22:55 file2.txt
-rw-r--r-- 1 atomic atomic   0 Jan 25 22:55 file1.txt
-rw-r--r-- 1 atomic atomic   0 Jan 25 22:55 file3.txt
-rw-r--r-- 1 atomic atomic   0 Jan 25 22:55 file4.txt
-rw-r--r-- 1 atomic atomic   0 Jan 25 22:55 file6.txt
-rw-r--r-- 1 atomic atomic   0 Jan 25 22:55 file5.txt
-rw-r--r-- 1 atomic atomic   0 Jan 25 22:55 file7.txt
-rw-r--r-- 1 atomic atomic   0 Jan 25 22:55 file8.txt
-rw-r--r-- 1 atomic atomic   0 Jan 25 22:55 file9.txt
-rw-r--r-- 1 atomic atomic   0 Jan 25 22:55 file10.txt
-rwxr-xr-- 1 atomic atomic 117 Jan 26 22:08 rename.sh
-rwxr-xr-- 1 atomic atomic 125 Jan 30 21:36 myrename.sh


output


Code:
atomic@atomic-VirtualBox:~/Shell_Practice/rename$ ls -lrt
total 8
-rw-r--r-- 1 atomic atomic   0 Jan 25 22:55 newfile2.txt
-rw-r--r-- 1 atomic atomic   0 Jan 25 22:55 newfile1.txt
-rw-r--r-- 1 atomic atomic   0 Jan 25 22:55 newfile3.txt
-rw-r--r-- 1 atomic atomic   0 Jan 25 22:55 newfile4.txt
-rw-r--r-- 1 atomic atomic   0 Jan 25 22:55 newfile6.txt
-rw-r--r-- 1 atomic atomic   0 Jan 25 22:55 newfile5.txt
-rw-r--r-- 1 atomic atomic   0 Jan 25 22:55 newfile7.txt
-rw-r--r-- 1 atomic atomic   0 Jan 25 22:55 newfile8.txt
-rw-r--r-- 1 atomic atomic   0 Jan 25 22:55 newfile9.txt
-rw-r--r-- 1 atomic atomic   0 Jan 25 22:55 newfile10.txt
-rwxr-xr-- 1 atomic atomic 117 Jan 26 22:08 rename.sh
-rwxr-xr-- 1 atomic atomic 121 Jan 30 21:38 myrename.sh

# 9  
Old 01-30-2019
Quote:
Originally Posted by nag_sathi
...
It working perfectly.Can you explain the below code.
Code:
 t=${i/"file"/"newfile"}

...
As I said in my post, that's called "parameter expansion" in shell. man bash:
Quote:
Parameter Expansion
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.
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${parameter/pattern/string}
Pattern substitution. The pattern is expanded to produce a pattern just as in pathname expansion. Parameter is expanded and the longest match of pattern against its value is replaced with string. ...
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