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Top Forums Shell Programming and Scripting Renaming multiple files Post 302171047 by jayell on Wednesday 27th of February 2008 12:19:56 PM
Old 02-27-2008
Thanks.

So in order to actually rename the file, how could I take the output of that command and make it the final file name?
 

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LPSACTIONRENAME(1)						   User Commands						LPSACTIONRENAME(1)

NAME
lpsactionrename - rename actions of an LPS SYNOPSIS
lpsactionrename [OPTION]... --renamefile=NAME [INFILE [OUTFILE]] DESCRIPTION
Apply the action rename specification in FILE to the LPS in INFILE and save it to OUTFILE. If OUTFILE is not present, stdout is used. If INFILE is not present, stdin is used. OPTIONS
OPTION can be any of the following: -pPHASE, --end-phase=PHASE stop conversion and output the action rename specification after phase PHASE: 'pa' (parsing), 'tc' (type checking) -o, --no-rewrite do not rewrite data expressions while renaming; use when the rewrite system does not terminate -m, --no-sumelm do not apply sum elimination to the final result -P, --pretty return a pretty printed version of the output -fNAME, --renamefile=NAME use the rename rules from NAME -rNAME, --rewriter=NAME use rewrite strategy NAME: 'jitty' for jitty rewriting (default), 'jittyc' for compiled jitty rewriting, 'jittyp' for jitty rewriting with prover --timings[=FILE] append timing measurements to FILE. Measurements are written to standard error if no FILE is provided Standard options: -q, --quiet do not display warning messages -v, --verbose display short intermediate messages -d, --debug display detailed intermediate messages --log-level=LEVEL display intermediate messages up to and including level -h, --help display help information --version display version information AUTHOR
Written by Jan Friso Groote and Tom Haenen. REPORTING BUGS
Report bugs at <http://www.mcrl2.org/issuetracker>. COPYRIGHT
Copyright (C) 2012 Technische Universiteit Eindhoven. This is free software. You may redistribute copies of it under the terms of the Boost Software License <http://www.boost.org/LICENSE_1_0.txt>. There is NO WARRANTY, to the extent permitted by law. SEE ALSO
See also the manual at <http://www.mcrl2.org/mcrl2/wiki/index.php/User_manual/lpsactionrename>. lpsactionrename mCRL2 toolset 201202.0 (Release) April 2012 LPSACTIONRENAME(1)
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