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Top Forums Shell Programming and Scripting Renaming Files Post 302176944 by abch624 on Wednesday 19th of March 2008 04:17:41 PM
Old 03-19-2008
Renaming Files

Hi Alll,

I have a script that we use on the servers to change the name of files that have spaces in the name:

#!/bin/tcsh
set n = 0
foreach f ( * )
echo $f | grep " "
if ( $? == 0 ) then
mv "$f" `echo $f | sed -e "s/ /_/g"`
@ n += 1
endif
end
echo $n changed

I need to write a script which renames all ascii text files in the current directory by adding a number to their names before the “extension”. for example <name>_a<number>.<”extension”> for example creditA, creditB, creditC, debitA get changed to creditA1, creditB2, creditC3, debitA4. That is for changing all the files on the server to have a number in them......

I have this code which is wrong

#!/bin/tcsh
set n = 0
set m = 0
foreach f ( * )
file $f | grep "ascii text"
if ( $? == 0 ) then
mv "$f" `echo $f"_a"$m`
@ n += 1
@ m += 1
endif
end


I need to divide the $f into two parts one part before the . and the other part after the . but I dont know how. Any help

Any help...

Last edited by abch624; 03-19-2008 at 05:20 PM.. Reason: More Info
 

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ZGREP(1)						      General Commands Manual							  ZGREP(1)

NAME
zgrep - search possibly compressed files for a regular expression SYNOPSIS
zgrep [ grep_options ] [ -e ] pattern filename... DESCRIPTION
Zgrep is used to invoke the grep on compress'ed or gzip'ed files. All options specified are passed directly to grep. If no file is speci- fied, then the standard input is decompressed if necessary and fed to grep. Otherwise the given files are uncompressed if necessary and fed to grep. If zgrep is invoked as zegrep or zfgrep then egrep or fgrep is used instead of grep. If the GREP environment variable is set, zgrep uses it as the grep program to be invoked. For example: for sh: GREP=fgrep zgrep string files for csh: (setenv GREP fgrep; zgrep string files) AUTHOR
Charles Levert (charles@comm.polymtl.ca) SEE ALSO
grep(1), egrep(1), fgrep(1), zdiff(1), zmore(1), znew(1), zforce(1), gzip(1), gzexe(1) ZGREP(1)
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