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Top Forums Shell Programming and Scripting How to Rename/Convert Files in Shell Scripting? Post 302249310 by hanu_oracle on Tuesday 21st of October 2008 05:55:09 AM
Old 10-21-2008
Quote:
Originally Posted by palsevlohit_123
Try this...

Code:
for name in `ls -1 *.doc`
do
        mv $name ${name%.doc}.pdf
done

---------------------- Failed Output-------------------------
bash-2.05$ cat HelloPDF.sh

cd $HOME

for name in `ls -1 *.doc`
do
mv $name ${name%.doc}.pdf
done

bash-2.05$ sh HelloPDF.sh
HelloPDF.sh: bad substitution
------------------ Failed Output---------------------------
 

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DESCRIPTION

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AUTHOR

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REFERENCES

       http://www.exif.org/Exif2-2.PDF <http://www.exif.org/Exif2-2.PDF>
       http://www.cipa.jp/english/hyoujunka/kikaku/pdf/DC-008-2010_E.pdf <http://www.cipa.jp/english/hyoujunka/kikaku/pdf/DC-008-2010_E.pdf>
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       <http://partners.adobe.com/public/developer/en/tiff/TIFFPM6.pdf>
       <http://www.adobe.com/products/dng/pdfs/dng_spec.pdf>
       <http://www.awaresystems.be/imaging/tiff/tifftags.html>
       <http://www.remotesensing.org/libtiff/TIFFTechNote2.html>
       <http://www.exif.org/dcf.PDF>
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       http://www.fine-view.com/jp/lab/doc/ps6ffspecsv2.pdf <http://www.fine-view.com/jp/lab/doc/ps6ffspecsv2.pdf>
       <http://www.ozhiker.com/electronics/pjmt/jpeg_info/meta.html>
       http://hul.harvard.edu/jhove/tiff-tags.html <http://hul.harvard.edu/jhove/tiff-tags.html>
       <http://www.microsoft.com/whdc/xps/wmphoto.mspx>
       <http://www.asmail.be/msg0054681802.html>
       <http://crousseau.free.fr/imgfmt_raw.htm>
       <http://www.cybercom.net/~dcoffin/dcraw/>
       <http://www.digitalpreservation.gov/formats/content/tiff_tags.shtml>
       <http://community.roxen.com/developers/idocs/rfc/rfc3949.html>
       http://tools.ietf.org/html/draft-ietf-fax-tiff-fx-extension1-01 <http://tools.ietf.org/html/draft-ietf-fax-tiff-fx-extension1-01>

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