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Top Forums UNIX for Dummies Questions & Answers Reducing file names Post 302092794 by jim mcnamara on Thursday 12th of October 2006 06:48:14 AM
Old 10-12-2006
Code:
cd /path/to/directory
echo "
open remote_node
USER username passwd
verbose
cd /destination
`ls pattern* | \
  while read file do
  do
     echo put "$file"  `expr substr $file 1 20`
  done `
  bye
  " | ftp > ftp.log

 

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XATTR(1)                                                      General Commands Manual                                                     XATTR(1)

NAME
xattr - sets or lists extended attributes on a file or directory SYNOPSIS
xattr [ -lz ] filename [ filename ... ] xattr -p [ -lz ] attr_name filename [ filename ... ] xattr -w [ -z ] attr_name attr_value filename [ filename ... ] xattr -d attr_name filename [ filename ... ] DESCRIPTION
This manual page documents briefly the xattr command. The first form lists the names of all xattrs on the given file(s). The second form (-p) prints the value of the xattr attr_name. The third form (-w) sets the value of the xattr attr_name to attr_value. The fourth form (-d) deletes the xattr attr_name. OPTIONS
A summary of options is included below. -h Show summary of options. -l Print long format (attr_name: attr_value) when listing xattrs. -z Compress or decompress (if compressed) attribute value in zip format). SEE ALSO
The Python module "xattr" AUTHOR
xattr was written by Bob Ippolito <bob@redivi.com>. This manual page was written by Federico Ceratto, for the Debian project (and may be used by others). May 8, 2010 XATTR(1)
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