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Top Forums UNIX for Dummies Questions & Answers Splitting a string and putting another string in the middle? Post 302337709 by Franklin52 on Friday 24th of July 2009 05:33:06 PM
Old 07-24-2009
You're using the filename instead of the content of the file and it's more efficient to call the date command once:

Code:
#!/bin/ksh

dd=$(date "+%Y%m%d")

while read i
do
  temp=`echo $i | awk -F"." -v d=$dd '{print $1 "_" d FS $2}'`
  mv "$i" "$temp"
done < myfiles.lst

Actualy this command is sufficient to do the job:

Code:
awk -F"." -v d=$(date "+%Y%m%d") '{system("mv " $0 " " $1 "_" d FS $2)}' myfiles.txt

 

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MKCOVER(8)						      System Manager's Manual							MKCOVER(8)

NAME

       mkcover - HylaFAX continuation cover page generation command

SYNOPSIS

       /var/spool/hylafax/bin/mkcover qfile template result

DESCRIPTION

       bin/mkcover  is the command invoked by the facsimile server when a continuation cover page is required for an outbound job that is about to
       be retried.  It generates a single POSTSCRIPT(R) page that is imaged according to the remote capabilities  and  transmitted  as	the  cover
       page.  The arguments are:

       qfile	 the job description file for the outbound job.

       template  the cover page template file, as used by the faxcover(1) program.

       result	 the filename where the resultant POSTSCRIPT document should be written.

       The default mkcover command is a shell script that uses awk(1) to parse the job description file and generate the cover page document.  The
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