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Top Forums UNIX for Dummies Questions & Answers Moving files out of multiple directories and renaming them in numerical order Post 302386859 by renthead720 on Wednesday 13th of January 2010 08:46:43 PM
Old 01-13-2010
Moving files out of multiple directories and renaming them in numerical order
Hi,
I have 500 directories each with multiple data files inside them. The names are sort of random. For example, one directory has files named e_1.dat, e_5.dat, e_8.dat, etc. I need to move the files to a single directory and rename them all in numerical order, from 1.dat to 1000(or some number).dat. Does anyone know how this could be done? I'm most comfortable with Perl, but any other way of doing it would be perfectly fine.
Thanks!
 

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ARP2ETHERS(8)						      System Manager's Manual						     ARP2ETHERS(8)

NAME

       arp2ethers - convert arpwatch address database to ethers file format

SYNOPSIS

       arp2ethers

DESCRIPTION

       arp2ethers converts file arp.dat in the current directory into ethers(5) format on stdout.  Usually arp.dat is an ethernet/ip database file
       generated by arpwatch(8).  The arpwatch daemon in Debian will create different arp.dat depending on its configuration. All of them will	be
       available at /var/lib/arpwatch/.

FILES

       /var/lib/arpwatch - default directory for arp.dat
       arp.dat - ethernet/ip address database

SEE ALSO

       arpwatch(8), ethers(5), rarp(8), arp(8),

BUGS

       Please send bug reports to arpwatch@ee.lbl.gov.

AUTHORS

       Original  version  by  Craig Leres of the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory Network Research Group, University of California, Berkeley,
       CA.

       Modified for the Debian Project by Peter Kelemen, with additions from Erik Warmelink.

       The current version is available via anonymous ftp:

	      ftp://ftp.ee.lbl.gov/arpwatch.tar.gz

       This manual page was contributed by Hugo Graumann.

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