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Top Forums Shell Programming and Scripting how to rename all files that have a certain text in the filename using tcsh shell Post 302334803 by kshji on Thursday 16th of July 2009 01:50:34 PM
Old 07-16-2009
Why you ask to use tcsh, if you have nothing ? Even your interactive command shell is tcsh, you can do your script using any shell which you have. And execute it even you use tcsh.

Example, I'm sure that you have sh in /bin directory, so this works, even it is ksh88 version or BourneShell - save this text to file rename.sh :
Code:
#!/bin/sh
#rename.sh
for f in $*
do
      newname=`echo "$f" | sed "s/^grp_eclp_/grp_ecl_/" `
      if [ "$newname" = "$f" ] ; then
           echo "no rename $f"
           continue
      fi
      echo "rename $f -> $newname"
      mv  "$f"  "$newname"
done

And after you have created file rename.sh , give execute priviledges and then call rename.sh with those files which you like to rename.
Code:
chmod a+rx rename.sh
./rename.sh  grp*ADTA*.xlt
# or
./rename.sh grp*.xlt
# or ...


Last edited by kshji; 07-16-2009 at 02:56 PM..
 

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