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Top Forums UNIX for Dummies Questions & Answers Changing the File Name Post 302162337 by balzzz on Monday 28th of January 2008 09:12:29 PM
Old 01-28-2008
Changing the File Name
Dear all,

I want to change all the File name in a folder from File1.txt to
File1YYYYMMDD.txt where YYYYMMDD is the date of the file is renamed.

I have used the following scripts:-

********************************************************
#!/bin/ksh

A=`date +"%d%m%Y"

for in [File]*
do
mv $i $i$A.txt
done

********************************************************

But when I used this script, all the file is instead changed into
File1.txtYYYYMMDD.txt

How do I remove the first .txt after the character File1? Please advised on this.

Thanks alot.
 

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File::Slurp::WithinPolicy(3pm)				User Contributed Perl Documentation			    File::Slurp::WithinPolicy(3pm)

NAME

       File::Slurp::WithinPolicy - Applies filesystem policies to File::Slurp

SYNOPSIS

	 use File::Slurp::WithinPolicy qw(:all);

	 my $text = read_file( 'filename' );
	 my @lines = read_file( 'filename' );
	 write_file( 'filename', $text );
	 append_file( 'filename', $more_text );
	 overwrite_file( 'filename', $text );
	 my @files = read_dir( '/path/to/dir' );

DESCRIPTION

       This provides the File::Slurp interface within a policy defined by File::Policy.  By default, File::Policy is a no-op and this behaves
       identically to File::Slurp.  System administrators may want to override the default File::Policy implementation to enforce a local filesys-
       tem policy (see File::Policy).

FUNCTIONS

       read_dir

       See "read_dir" in File::Slurp

       read_file

       See "read_file" in File::Slurp

       write_file

       See "write_file" in File::Slurp

       append_file

       See "append_file" in File::Slurp

       overwrite_file

       See "overwrite_file" in File::Slurp

EXPORTS

       By default, nothing is exported.  The ":all" tag can be used to export everything.  Individual methods can also be exported.

SEE ALSO

       File::Slurp, File::Policy

VERSION

       $Revision: 1.4 $ on $Date: 2005/06/15 10:40:21 $ by $Author: simonf $

AUTHOR

       John Alden <cpan _at_ bbc _dot_ co _dot_ uk>

COPYRIGHT

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       See the file COPYING in this distribution, or http://www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl.txt

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