cat file_containing_the_name_pairs | awk -F'|' | while read oldfile newfile
do
# Remove echo when sure that this does what you want
echo mv "${oldfile}" "${newfile}"
done
(Please no stupid comments about "cat", we don't know what O/S or Shell this is?).
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Reason: Correct bad paste
Hi to everyone!!. Here's my stupid question of the day.
When I have to rename a file I use "mv filename newfilename".
But what about renaming multiple files, for example if I want to add the prefix "old" to several image files (in fact it's what I wanted to do..).
Thanks in advance.... :D (6 Replies)
Can someone please tell me how I can rename a bunch of files at a time. I hava a directory that has 700+ files that are named
*.xyz and I would like to rename them to *.abc . How can I do that with a simple command ?
mv *.xyz *.abc did not work.
Thanks in advance (4 Replies)
Hi All my dear friends
I had multiple files in my directory with .pcv and .sqv extn
I want to rename all .pcv files with .pc extn and all .sqv files with .sql extn
Please help me out.:eek::mad::rolleyes:
e.g.
/trimsbld/users/dhirens/scripts/newfolder==>ll -rt
total 2856
-rwxr-xr-x 1... (2 Replies)
I have a bunch of files txt1.csv--2008 thru to txt3.csv--2008.
If i wanted to rename these files all at the same time to txt*.csv-2008 what would be the best way to do it...
Just need to get rid of the extra - in each file name.. not all files are going to be called txt*.csv--2008. Just... (6 Replies)
Hi,
I have several hundred files I need to rename, and I'm would rather not hit F2 for each file individually to rename them.
Example of file:
large1961.jpg
What I need the file to be renamed as:
1961.jpg
I don't know what type of command I can execute within a shell script that would... (7 Replies)
I have multiple gif files in a directory with different names.
How can i rename them to have this result:
file01.gif
file02.gif
file03.gif
.
.
.
file0500.gif
Thanks for your help. (3 Replies)
Hi,
Can we rename multiples files using find or awk utility?
Now I am doing it using for loop and getting the file name and in side the loop using the mv command.
Like ine need t rename all txt files to doc file. For example
a1.txt => a1.doc
a2.txt => a2.doc
a3.txt => a3.doc
myfile.txt... (2 Replies)
I have 34 file in a directory that all have different names, however, they do have 1 pattern in commmon. They all have "-10-11-2010" date format in the name. I want to replace the date in the file name with a supplied date or maybe even the system date. I am sure I will be using awk or sed to... (9 Replies)
Hello, I have multiple files that I want to change the names to. Let's say for example that I want to rename all the files in the left column to the names in the right column:
What would be the easiest way to go about doing this? Thanks. (1 Reply)
Hi,
In sftp script to get files, I have to rename all the files which I am picking. Rename command does not work here. Is there any way to do this?
I am using #!/bin/ksh
For eg: sftp user@host <<EOF
cd /path
get *.txt
rename *.txt *.txt.done
... (7 Replies)
Discussion started by: jhilmil
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aha - Ansi HTML Adapter
SYNOPSIS
aha [options] [-f datei]
DESCRIPTION
aha takes SGR-colored Input and prints W3C conform HTML-Code.
aha reads the Input from a file or stdin and writes HTML-Code to stdout.
OPTIONS --help , -h , -?
A help like this
--black , -b
Black Background and white "standard color"
--pink , -p
Pink Background
--iso X , -i X
Uses ISO 8859-X instead of utf-8. X must be 1..16
--title X , -t X
Gives the html output the title
--line-fix , -l
Uses a fix for inputs using control sequences to change the cursor position like htop. It's a hot fix, it may not work with any pro-
gram like htop. (See EXAMPLE)
EXAMPLE
aha --help | aha --black --title "the awesome aha help"> aha-help.htm
Creates an HTML file with the help of aha with black background
colordiff oldfile.c newfile.c | aha > colordiff.htm
Creates an HTML file with a colorful diff-output of two files "oldfile.c" and "newfile.c" with white background
ls --color=always | aha --pink > ls.htm
Creates an HTML file with a colorful ls-output with pink background.
echo a | htop | aha --black --line-fix > htop.htm
Creates an HTML file with the output of htop. You have to use --line-fix due the other new-line-commands htop uses.
AUTHOR
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August 31, 2011 aha(1)