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Top Forums UNIX for Dummies Questions & Answers Rename file knowing the first 7 carachters Post 302179770 by radoulov on Friday 28th of March 2008 12:58:13 PM
Old 03-28-2008
Code:
awk 'BEGIN {
m["JAN"] = "01"
m["FEB"] = "02"
m["MAR"] = "03"
m["APR"] = "04"
m["MAY"] = "05"
m["JUN"] = "06"
m["JUL"] = "07"
m["AUG"] = "08"
m["SEP"] = "09"
m["OCT"] = "10"
m["NOV"] = "11"
m["DEC"] = "12"
sep = "_"
new = "IN_PROV"
ext = ".dat"
for (i=1; i<ARGC; i++) {
  split(ARGV[i], t, sep)
  print "mv", ARGV[i], new sep substr(t[3],1,4) m[t[2]] ext
   }
}' PROVEDP_*

Use nawk or /usr/xpg4/bin/awk on Solaris.
If you get the correct result, pass the output to the shell via pipe.
 

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LEARN ABOUT OPENSOLARIS

gvfs-rename

gvfs-rename(1)							   User Commands						    gvfs-rename(1)

NAME

       gvfs-rename - change the name of a file or directory using the VFS system

SYNOPSIS

       gvfs-rename source-URI new-name

DESCRIPTION

       gvfs-rename changes the name of a file or directory, using the virtual file system.

OPERANDS

       The following operands are supported:

       source-URI	       Specifies the source file location in standard URI format.

       new-name 	       Specifies the new name for file or directory.

EXAMPLES

       Example 1: Rename a Local HTML File

       example%
	       gvfs-rename file:///home/user/index.html file:///home/user/index.html.old

ENVIRONMENT VARIABLES

       See environ(5) for descriptions of the following environment variables: NLSPATH.

EXIT STATUS

       The exit value 0 is returned regardless of success or failure.

FILES

       The following files are used by this application:

       /usr/bin/gvfs-rename    Executable to rename a file using the GVFS library

ATTRIBUTES

       See attributes(5) for descriptions of the following attributes:

       +-----------------------------+-----------------------------+
       |      ATTRIBUTE TYPE	     |	    ATTRIBUTE VALUE	   |
       +-----------------------------+-----------------------------+
       |Availability		     |SUNWgnome-gvfs		   |
       +-----------------------------+-----------------------------+
       |Interface stability	     |Volatile			   |
       +-----------------------------+-----------------------------+

SEE ALSO

       gvfs-cat(1),  gvfs-copy(1),  gvfs-move(1), gvfs-info(1), gvfs-less(1), gvfs-ls(1), gvfs-mkdir(1) gvfs-monitor-dir(1), gvfs-monitor-file(1),
       gvfs-mount(1), gvfs-copy(1), gvfs-open(1), gvfs-rm(1), gvfs-save(1), gvfs-trash(1), gvfs-tree(1), attributes(5), environ(5)

NOTES

       Written by Alvaro Lopez Ortega, Sun Microsystems Inc., 2008.

SunOS 5.11							    30 May 2008 						    gvfs-rename(1)
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