08-20-2009
Thank you so much Smiling Dragon!
I finally got a chance to try this.
I just realized that I made a mistake in the question I originally asked.
This code you suggested:
for file in xx*; do mv "$file" `head -1 "$file" | cut -d '|' -f 2`.txt; done
works perfectly for what I asked for, but I just noticed that my files are actually in the format:
asdf...asdf | some Junk | asdf...asdf |name1| asdf... .... and no more vertical bars
I was actually supposed to name the files after what is between the SECOND set of vertical bars, rather than the first.
Is there a way to do that ??
And by any chance, now that I've renamed 500 files incorrectly, is there an undo button in unix
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??
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