Hi Guys,
I have 5000 files in a folder. all are .DAT files.
I want to rename them as .TXT files.
I tried the following command.
mv *.DAT *. TXT
But it is throwing an error. Can you please tell me what am i doing wrong.
Thanks & Regards,
Magesh. (11 Replies)
Hi everyone.
I'm in need of a solution where i need to rename a folder to a name that's inside an XML file in that folder.
OS is Ubuntu 9.10 with Gnome.
I've tried using grep, sed and xpath, but can't seem to find a solution.
This is the simplified folder structure:
FOLDER-NAME
-... (4 Replies)
hello, I need to build a shell script that receives the folder to copy by parameter and copy all files except thumb.db to another folder and rename them like, file.jpg renamed to file_bb1.jpg.
can someone help me
Thanks (4 Replies)
Hi,
I want to rename all the files (more than 100 files) in a fodler to another folder with date&time stamp.
foe eg,
file1.dat
file2.dat
file3.dat
..
to be renamed as
file1100629_16_30_15.txt (yy-mon-dd_hh_mi_ss)
file1100629_16_30_16.txt
..
so on (2 Replies)
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I know with :bufdo %s/apples/oranges/g|update you can do this for inside... (5 Replies)
Hi.
I don't have any experience with making scripts in bash. I need a simple script to rename all files in a folder to the format file1.avi, file2.avi, file3.avi, and so on.....
Please note that the original files have different filenames and different extensions. But they all need to be... (2 Replies)
Hello,
I am new to shell scripting and stuck on renaming files in a folder. The files have the format
chp01_00001.wav
chp01_00002.wav
....
chp02_00001.wav
chp02_00002.wav
....
but I want them to have the following names:
chp_bloomy_00001.wav
chp_bloomy_00002.wav
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Hi,
I'm really new at this but have several hundred files that i need to do something with and save with a new name. The files are 26 columns wide. I want to select some for renaming. I've figured out what to do to each file ("file-1.CSV"| grep -v "=" | cut -f 1-4,9,14,15,18,19,20,21,22,24,26... (2 Replies)
hi guys
i have a group of directory like these
p1( 15 - 16 )
p2( 17 -15 )
p1 ( 14 - 20 )
p2 ( 13 -17 )
..
.
.
directories contain numbers represent time
i want to rename all directories and change all numbers in directories' name .
for example
p1( 15 -16 ) will change to... (16 Replies)
I want to rename all files and folder containing underscore in name and replace underscore with hyphen.
Currently I am using following code,
rename '_' '-' */*/*
It was working but now it is showing me "Argument list too long"
Please help! (2 Replies)
Discussion started by: opticalpigion
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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)