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Top Forums UNIX for Dummies Questions & Answers Removing prefix from multiple files and renaming file extension Post 302324245 by rakeshawasthi on Wednesday 10th of June 2009 09:57:23 AM
Old 06-10-2009
Code:
for file in `ls pdb*.ent`
do
   new_name=`echo $file | sed 's/^pdb//;s/.ent/.txt/'`
   mv $file $new_name
done

 

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SHA1_FILE(3)								 1							      SHA1_FILE(3)

sha1_file - Calculate the sha1 hash of a file

SYNOPSIS
string sha1_file (string $filename, [bool $raw_output = false]) DESCRIPTION
Calculates the sha1 hash of the file specified by $filename using the US Secure Hash Algorithm 1, and returns that hash. The hash is a 40-character hexadecimal number. PARAMETERS
o $filename - The filename of the file to hash. o $raw_output - When TRUE, returns the digest in raw binary format with a length of 20. RETURN VALUES
Returns a string on success, FALSE otherwise. EXAMPLES
Example #1 sha1_file(3) example <?php foreach(glob('/home/Kalle/myproject/*.php') as $ent) { if(is_dir($ent)) { continue; } echo $ent . ' (SHA1: ' . sha1_file($ent) . ')', PHP_EOL; } ?> CHANGELOG
+--------+---------------------------------------------------+ |Version | | | | | | | Description | | | | +--------+---------------------------------------------------+ | 5.1.0 | | | | | | | Changed the function to use the streams API. It | | | means that you can use it with wrappers, like | | | sha1_file('http://example.com/..') | | | | +--------+---------------------------------------------------+ SEE ALSO
sha1(3), md5_file(3), crc32(3). PHP Documentation Group SHA1_FILE(3)
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