hey guys
having some trouble figuring this out.
my program is supposed to take a name of a directory as a command line argument and change the filenames inside that directory to lowercase.
what i dont get is how you access that directory and go thru all the files and change the filenames... (1 Reply)
I have lot of files whose names are something like the following. I want to change the name of all the files from 'npt02' to 'n02'.
npt02-z30-sr65-rgdt0p50-dc0p01-16x12drw.tpf
npt02-z30-sr65-rgdt0p50-dc0p01-8x6drw.back
npt02-z30-sr65-rgdt0p50-dc0p01-8x6drw-bst-mis.xy... (5 Replies)
I have written a csh script that changes the name of file from src to dst.
I am getting the error below:
TESTAmvfiles
DONE TESTAmvfiles
set: Variable name must begin with a letter.
The csh script is:
#!/bin/csh
#... (0 Replies)
Hi guys,
I have lots of files that look like:
ABC.packed.dir
DEF.packed.dir
GHI.packed.dir
etc...
I would like them to have more of the usual naming convention
ABC
DEF
GHI
etc...
so I was thinking that I could: (2 Replies)
I have file names as shown and want to change the name to have only the first four numbers.
/home/chrisd/Desktop/nips/nips_2013/5212-learning-feature-selection-dependencies-in-multi-task-learning.pdf
/home/chrisd/Desktop/nips/nips_2013/5213-parametric-task-learning.pdf... (3 Replies)
I have a series of files as follows
file-1.pdf
file-2.pdf
file-3.pdf
file-4.pdf
file-5.pdf
file-6.pdf
file-7.pdf
I want to have the file names with odd numbers
starting from an initial number, for example 2000.
The result would be the following:
file-2001.pdf
file-2003.pdf... (9 Replies)
I want to change the name of several files within a folders (directory) and subdirectories in OS X. If I only wanted to change file names within the directory I guess I would use:
rm photo*.jpg picture*.jpg
I have lots of subdirectories, is there a way of getting the file changes for all... (5 Replies)
HEAD(1) FSF HEAD(1)NAME
head - output the first part of files
SYNOPSIS
head [OPTION]... [FILE]...
DESCRIPTION
Print first 10 lines of each FILE to standard output. With more than one FILE, precede each with a header giving the file name. With no
FILE, or when FILE is -, read standard input.
Mandatory arguments to long options are mandatory for short options too.
-c, --bytes=SIZE
print first SIZE bytes
-n, --lines=NUMBER
print first NUMBER lines instead of first 10
-q, --quiet, --silent
never print headers giving file names
-v, --verbose
always print headers giving file names
--help display this help and exit
--version
output version information and exit
SIZE may have a multiplier suffix: b for 512, k for 1K, m for 1 Meg.
AUTHOR
Written by David MacKenzie.
REPORTING BUGS
Report bugs to <bug-coreutils@gnu.org>.
COPYRIGHT
Copyright (C) 2002 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
This is free software; see the source for copying conditions. There is NO warranty; not even for MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICU-
LAR PURPOSE.
SEE ALSO
The full documentation for head is maintained as a Texinfo manual. If the info and head programs are properly installed at your site, the
command
info head
should give you access to the complete manual.
head (coreutils) 4.5.3 February 2003 HEAD(1)