to start with:
invoked from the parent old 'oldnames' direcotry. Assumes 'oldnames' and 'newnames' direcotries are SIBLINGS and the file 'names' resides in the parent of 'oldnames'.
Adjust to fit the actual requirement.
Good luck!
Hi there,
I am trying to do somehting similar, but on a wider scale.
I am trying to write a script that would open the home directory, open the first (of 650) user's folder
open the ?mail directory, which every user has
Then I need the script to read each of the files and folder names with... (2 Replies)
HI,
Is there any possibility to change names of many files using "mv" and "for" loop ???
For ex. I have many txt files.
file1.txt
file2.txt
...
And I tried something like this, but it's not working
for (( i=1 ; $i<=10 ; i++ )) ; do
mv file$i.txt newfile$1.txt;
done (3 Replies)
Hi all,
I would like to simply read a file which lists a number of pathnames and files, then search and replace key strings using a few vi commands:
:1,$s/search_str/replace_str/g<return>
but I am not sure how to automate the <return> of these vis commands when I am putting this in a... (8 Replies)
Hi,
I would like to write a loop to change the names of files in a directory. The files are called data1.txt through data1000.txt. I'd like to change their names to a1.txt through a1000.txt. How do I go about doing that? Thanks! (2 Replies)
I have two files like this:
fileA.net
A
B
C
fileA.dat
1
2
3
and I want the output
output_expected
A 1
B 2
C 3
I know that the easier way is to do a paste fileA.net fileA.dat, but the problem is that I have 10,000 couple of files (fileB.net with fileB.dat; fileC.net with... (3 Replies)
Dear All,
I have many sub-folders but each of them have a file with same name but different data.
I want to either move or copy them into a new folder but they need to have the path of where they are coming as part of their name...
I have managed to find the files but dont know how to change... (2 Replies)
Hello,
I have a set of files Xfile0001 - Xfile0021, and the content of this files (one at a time) needs to be printed between some line (lines start with word "Generated") that I am extracting from another file called file7.txt and all the output goes into output.txt. First I tried creating a for... (5 Replies)
What I would like to do is read each line in the atdinfile:
A sample atdinfile would look like this:
651
652
653
654
655
656
657
658
659
660
661
664
665
666
667
668 (5 Replies)
Hi, I have a control file which will contain all filenames(300) files. Loop through all the file names in the control files and check the existence of this file in another directory(same server). I need to infinitely(2 hrs) run this while loop until all the files are found. Once a file is found,... (5 Replies)
I have a list of .xlsx files (names 1.xlsx, 2.xlsx etc) in a directory, on which I need to insert data from its corresponding text file (named 1.txt, 2.txt etc) on the second worksheet named 'Filtered' and save it. The code I am trying is
#!/usr/bin/python
import os
from... (8 Replies)
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LEARN ABOUT CENTOS
rename
RENAME(1) User Commands RENAME(1)NAME
rename - rename files
SYNOPSIS
rename [options] expression replacement file...
DESCRIPTION
rename will rename the specified files by replacing the first occurrence of expression in their name by replacement.
OPTIONS -v, --verbose
Give visual feedback which files where renamed, if any.
-V, --version
Display version information and exit.
-s, --symlink
Peform rename on symlink target
-h, --help
Display help text and exit.
EXAMPLES
Given the files foo1, ..., foo9, foo10, ..., foo278, the commands
rename foo foo0 foo?
rename foo foo0 foo??
will turn them into foo001, ..., foo009, foo010, ..., foo278. And
rename .htm .html *.htm
will fix the extension of your html files.
WARNING
The renaming has no safeguards. If the user has permission to rewrite file names, the command will perform the action without any ques-
tions. For example, the result can be quite drastic when the command is run as root in the /lib directory. Always make a backup before
running the command, unless you truly know what you are doing.
SEE ALSO mmv(1), mv(1)AVAILABILITY
The rename command is part of the util-linux package and is available from ftp://ftp.kernel.org/pub/linux/utils/util-linux/.
util-linux June 2011 RENAME(1)