im kind alost. i beleave its a sed command. but i cant seem to find it in my book. can someone point me in the write direction.

i know this is extreamly sloppy. but this is what i did untill i can figure out how to manipulate the filename namespace.

an ls on the directory where this would run would return 2 file names:

q162944.001
q162945.001

Code:

for i in `ls | awk -F"." '{ print $1 }'|awk -F"2" '{ print $2 }'`; do
                mv q162$i.* HBFULR$i`date +%Y%m%d%H%M%S`.DAT
                done