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Old 12-11-2012
Find & Replace

Hi
I am looking to rename the contents of this dir, each one with a new timestamp, interval of a second for each so it the existing format is on lhs and what I want is to rename each of these to what is on rhs..hopefully it nake sense

Code:
CDR.20060505.150006.gb    CDR.20121211.191500.gb
CDR.20060505.150109.gb    CDR.20121211.191501.gb
CDR.20060505.150216.gb    CDR.20121211.191502.gb
CDR.20060505.150308.gb    CDR.20121211.191503.gb

Hopefully this makes sense.
I know I need to utilise a sed command in conjunction with some sort of loop

Last edited by rob171171; 12-11-2012 at 03:20 PM.. Reason: more detail
# 2  
Old 12-11-2012
How about?
Code:
for file in CDR*.gb
do
        echo "mv $file CDR.$( date +'%Y%m%d.%H%M%S' ).gb"
        sleep 1
done

Note: remove echo if the result is OK, replace like below:-
Code:
mv "$file" "CDR.$( date +'%Y%m%d.%H%M%S' ).gb"

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Old 12-11-2012
sed is not the be-all and end-all of text. I'm not sure what I'd even use it for here since you're just replacing everything with everything...

Code:
read YYYYMMDD HH MM SS <<EOF
`date '+%Y%m%d %H %M %S'`
EOF

[ "${HH:0:1}" = "0" ] && HH="${HH:1}"
[ "${MM:0:1}" = "0" ] && MM="${MM:1}"
[ "${SS:0:1}" = "0" ] && SS="${SS:1}"

for FILE in *.gb
do
        echo mv "$FILE" "$YYYY-$HH$MM$SS.gb"

        let SS=SS+1

        [ "$SS" -gt 59 ] && SS=0 && let MM=MM+1
        [ "$MM" -gt 59 ] && MM=0 && let HH=HH+1
        [ "$HH" -gt 23 ] && HH=0
done

Remove the echo once you've tested and are sure it does what you want.

bipinajith's code is much simpler Smilie But if you have 500 files, will take 8 minutes...
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Old 12-11-2012
Thank you so much, that 1s 100% exactly what i was after. My approach was much different tyring to use sed and more complex solutions
Thanks again

---------- Post updated at 02:40 PM ---------- Previous update was at 02:39 PM ----------

Thank you Corona688 for your response,. You are correct in that Image bipinajith' solution is far simpler.
 
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