1. Shell Programming and Scripting

I'm working on a project that basically unzips three zip files. When these unzip they create about 70+ directories with subdirectories of year/month with about 3 to 9 pdf files in each directory. Basically, I'm needing to figure out a way to zip these pdf files up. for instance the script... (1 Reply)

2. Shell Programming and Scripting

Basically, I have a huge amount of files (ripped audiobooks) that all have the same garbage in their filenames. I'm wondering how to go about writing a bash script to mass rename them. Example filenames as they stand now: The First CD - 1x01 - Title 1.mp3 The First CD - 1x02 - Title 2.mp3... (4 Replies)

3. UNIX for Dummies Questions & Answers

Hi. I don't have any experience with making scripts in bash. I need a simple script to rename all files in a folder to the format file1.avi, file2.avi, file3.avi, and so on..... Please note that the original files have different filenames and different extensions. But they all need to be... (2 Replies)

4. UNIX for Dummies Questions & Answers

Dear friends, I have created a script to rename all files in a directory by appending the file name with username (who created the file), the date it was created. For example, "apple.doc" should be renamed to "johnFeb23apple.doc" where "john" is the owner and "Feb23" is file created date. It... (4 Replies)

5. UNIX for Dummies Questions & Answers

I am trying to create a script that will search for a directory named bob, and then rename that directory to peter. I do not want the directory path to change. so /folders/bob would become /folders/peter It seems to be renaming the bob folder to peter correctly, but the peter folder ends... (2 Replies)

6. Shell Programming and Scripting

HI, I have a file serverlist in that all host names are placed. i have written a small script #./testping #! /bin/bash for i in `cat serverlist` do ping $i >> output.txt done so now it creates a file output.txt till here fine.. now each time i run this script the output file... (4 Replies)

7. UNIX for Dummies Questions & Answers

Hi, I want to rename several files like this: example: A0805120817.BHN A0805120818.BHN ..... to: 20120817.0805.N 20120818.0805.N ...... How can i do this via terminal or in shell bash script ? thanks, (6 Replies)

8. Shell Programming and Scripting

I am trying to merge or combine all $1 values in validation.txt from multiple directories into one new file and output it here tab-delimited:/home/cmccabe/Desktop/20x/total/total.txt. Each $2 value and the header would then be a new field in total.txt. I am not sure how to go about this as cat is... (2 Replies)

9. Shell Programming and Scripting

Hi, Friends, i have a requirement where i need to rename my files residing in multiple sub directories and move them to one different directory along with some kind of directory indicator. For eg: test--is my parent directory and it has many files such as a1.txt a2.txt a3.txt ... (5 Replies)