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Top Forums Shell Programming and Scripting Renaming a file and replacing the special character in the name with date Post 302372719 by Franklin52 on Wednesday 18th of November 2009 02:50:32 PM
Old 11-18-2009
Quote:
Originally Posted by abhinav192
can we achieve this using sed??
Something like this?

Code:
sed 's/\(.*\)#\(.*\)/mv & \1.'"$(date "+%Y%m%d")"'.\2/' | sh

 

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