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Top Forums Shell Programming and Scripting mv command to rename multiple files that retain some portion of the original file nam Post 302270268 by grimace15 on Saturday 20th of December 2008 02:03:19 PM
Old 12-20-2008
mv command to rename multiple files that retain some portion of the original file nam
Well the title is not too good, so I will explain.

I need to move (rename) files using a simple AIX script.

???file1.txt
???file2.txt
???file1a.txt
???file2a.txt

to be:

???renamedfile1'date'.txt
???renamedfile2'date'.txt
???renamedfile1a'date'.txt
???renamedfile2a'date'.txt

The ??? are realy numbers 001 through 999, and there are two filenames per number. The 'date' is easy `date +%Y%m%d`. but due to my limited scripting ability, I cannot seem to get this accomplished.

Any help would be greatly appreciated.

Thanks in advance.
 

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LEARN ABOUT DEBIAN

xclip-copyfile

XCLIP-COPYFILE(1)					      General Commands Manual						 XCLIP-COPYFILE(1)

NAME

       xclip-copyfile, xclip-cutfile, xclip-pastefile - copy and move files via the X clipboard

SYNOPSIS

       xclip-copyfile [-p] FILES...

       xclip-cutfile [-p] FILES...

       xclip-pastefile

DESCRIPTION

       xclip-copyfile copies files into the X clipboard, recursing into directories.

       xclip-cutfile copies the files, but also deletes them afterwards.

       -p     preserve path formation

       xclip-pastefile pastes the files out of the clipboard

EXAMPLES

       Copying a file to a remote host

       [maggie.lkpg.cendio.se ~]$ echo "A file created on ${HOSTNAME}" > file1
       [maggie.lkpg.cendio.se ~]$ xclip-copyfile file1
       [sofie.homeip.net ~/doc]$ xclip-pastefile
       file1
       [sofie.homeip.net ~/doc]$ cat file1
       A file created on maggie.lkpg.cendio.se

       Copying an entire tree structure

       [sofie.homeip.net ~]$ xclip-copyfile doc
       [maggie.lkpg.cendio.se ~/tmp]$ xclip-pastefile
       doc/
       doc/letter-mom-april.txt
       doc/file1
       doc/letter-dad-march.txt

       Copying files with preserved path information

       [maggie.lkpg.cendio.se ~]$ xclip-copyfile -p /etc/sysconfig/grub
       tar: Removing leading `/' from member names
       [sofie.homeip.net ~/tmp]$ xclip-pastefile
       etc/sysconfig/grub
       [sofie.homeip.net ~/tmp]$ ls etc/sysconfig/grub
       etc/sysconfig/grub

       Moving files

       [sofie.homeip.net ~]$ ls letter-brother-may.txt
       letter-brother-may.txt
       [sofie.homeip.net ~]$ xclip-cutfile letter-brother-may.txt
       [sofie.homeip.net ~]$ ls letter-brother-may.txt
       ls: cannot access letter-brother-may.txt: No such file or directory
       [sofie.homeip.net ~]$ cd doc
       [sofie.homeip.net ~/doc]$ xclip-pastefile
       letter-brother-may.txt

AUTHORS

       This  manual  page  was written by Maximilian Gass <mxey@cloudconnected.org> for the Debian project. It may be used for everything else, of
       course.

																 XCLIP-COPYFILE(1)
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