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Top Forums UNIX for Dummies Questions & Answers Changing old file name to new one if the old file name satisfied certain condition Post 302168134 by balzzz on Sunday 17th of February 2008 08:28:13 AM
Old 02-17-2008
Changing old file name to new one if the old file name satisfied certain condition
Hi guys,

I desperately need your help on my problem:-

I got a folder in my directory that has many files in it. Most of the file's name is starting with certain prefix. Eg: ABC, CDE, EFG, etc. I only want to change file name that is starting from certain prefix and the rest I want them to remain the same. For example: I want to change the file name that has prefix ABC and CDE only to ADD_ABC, ADD_CDE and the EFG I want it to remain unchanged.

I want to put all the file name prefix that I want to change into a txt file and run a script based on the condition that I set.

Can you all please shed some light on this matter? I really clueless on how to link the script ( mv command) to the txt file.

Thanks in advance
 

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ijs-config

IJS-CONFIG(1)						      General Commands Manual						     IJS-CONFIG(1)

NAME

       ijs-config - script to get information about the installed version of ijs

SYNOPSIS

       ijs-config [--prefix[=DIR]] [--exec-prefix[=DIR]] [--version] [--libs] [--cflags]

DESCRIPTION

       ijs-config  is  a program that is used to determine the compiler and linker flags that should be used to compile and link programs that use
       IJS.

OPTIONS

       This program follows the usual GNU command line syntax, with long options starting with two dashes (`-').  A summary of options is included
       below.

       --help Show summary of options.	This may list additional advanced package configuration options not detailed in this manual page.

       --version
	      Show installed libijs version.

       --libs Print the linker flags that are necessary to link an IJS program.

       --cflags
	      Print the compiler flags that are necessary to compile an IJS program.

       --prefix=PREFIX
	      If  specified,  use PREFIX instead of the installation prefix that IJS was built with when computing the output for the --cflags and
	      --libs options. This option is also used for the exec prefix if --exec-prefix was not  specified.  This  option  must  be  specified
	      before any --libs or --cflags options.

       --exec-prefix=PREFIX
	      If  specified, use PREFIX instead of the installation exec prefix that IJS was built with when computing the output for the --cflags
	      and --libs options.  This option must be specified before any --libs or --cflags options.

SEE ALSO

       gtk-config(1)

AUTHOR

       This manual page was written by Roger Leigh <rleigh@debian.org>, originally for the Debian GNU/Linux system.

								    5 Feb, 2004 						     IJS-CONFIG(1)
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