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Top Forums Shell Programming and Scripting Need help for a Shell script to rename multiple files Post 302400622 by kidney514 on Wednesday 3rd of March 2010 05:47:01 PM
Old 03-03-2010
What would the script look like?

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Code:
# assuming the files are all called file_ something
find [directory] -type f [-maxdepth X] -print0 | while read -d $'\0' file
do
# display first ten lines
  head -10 "$fn"
# or, more of what you need
  newnam=`head -10 "$fn" | grep "%%Title" | cut -d" " -f2"`
# now rename it 
  mv "$fn" "$newnam"
done

Gives me:
find: [-maxdepth: unknown option
 

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SIZE(1) 						      General Commands Manual							   SIZE(1)

NAME
size - print the size of the sections in an object file SYNOPSIS
size [ option ... ] [ object ... ] DESCRIPTION
Size (without the -m option) prints the (decimal) number of bytes required by the __TEXT, __DATA and __OBJC segments. All other segments are totaled and that size is listed in the `others' column. The final two columns is the sum in decimal and hexadecimal. If no file is specified, a.out is used. The options to size(1) are: - Treat the remaining arguments as name of object files not options to size(1). -m Print the sizes of the Mach-O segments and sections as well as the total sizes of the sections in each segment and the total size of the segments in the file. -l When used with the -m option, also print the addresses and offsets of the sections and segments. -x When used with the -m option, print the values in hexadecimal (with leading 0x's) rather than decimal. -arch arch_type Specifies the architecture, arch_type, of the file for size(1) to operate on when the file is a universal file. (See arch(3) for the currently know arch_types.) The arch_type can be "all" to operate on all architectures in the file. The default is to display only the host architecture, if the file contains it; otherwise, all architectures in the file are shown. SEE ALSO
otool(1) BUGS
The size of common symbols can't be reflected in any of the numbers for relocatable object files. Apple Computer, Inc. July 28, 2005 SIZE(1)
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