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Top Forums Shell Programming and Scripting Change all filenames in a directory Post 302354299 by crumb on Thursday 17th of September 2009 04:54:44 PM
Old 09-17-2009
Cool. That did it. Here is my pseudo-final solution: -also not pretty but does the job.
Code:
#! /bin/bash

for OLD_FILE in $( ls | egrep '^[[:alnum:]][[:alnum:]][[:alnum:]][[:alnum:]][[:alnum:]]' )
do
  NEW_FILE=$( echo ${OLD_FILE} | sed 's/^[[:alnum:]][[:alnum:]][[:alnum:]][[:alnum:]][[:alnum:]]//' )
  if [ -f $NEW_FILE ]
  then
    echo $NEW_FILE'-duplicate'
  fi
  echo $OLD_FILE $NEW_FILE

done

exit 0

 

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LEARN ABOUT OPENSOLARIS

cd

cd(1T)							       Tcl Built-In Commands							    cd(1T)

__________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________

NAME

       cd - Change working directory

SYNOPSIS

       cd ?dirName?
_________________________________________________________________

DESCRIPTION

       Change the current working directory to dirName, or to the home directory (as specified in the HOME environment variable) if dirName is not
       given.  Returns an empty string.  Note that the current working directory is a per-process resource; the cd  command  changes  the  working
       directory for all interpreters and (in a threaded environment) all threads.

EXAMPLES

       Change to the home directory of the user fred:
	      cd ~fred

       Change to the directory lib that is a sibling directory of the current one:
	      cd ../lib

SEE ALSO

       filename(1T), glob(1T), pwd(1T)

KEYWORDS

       working directory

ATTRIBUTES

       See attributes(5) for descriptions of the following attributes:

       +--------------------+-----------------+
       |  ATTRIBUTE TYPE    | ATTRIBUTE VALUE |
       +--------------------+-----------------+
       |Availability	    | SUNWTcl	      |
       +--------------------+-----------------+
       |Interface Stability | Uncommitted     |
       +--------------------+-----------------+
NOTES

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