Guys, i need to replace a particular pattern in lots of files in a folder with another pattern . Is there any command line script I can use to do the functionality.
Eg:
Need to replace the 1234 in the file name with 9876 i.e,
How can i do this??
Alex
Last edited by Yogesh Sawant; 07-06-2010 at 03:23 AM..
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Hi All,
I have a folder name as postscript folder and it contains the following postscript files.
package1.ps
package2.ps
package3.ps
when i am renaming all the ps files to xps files by using the following command
mv /postscript/*.ps /postscript/*.xps
Then i am getting the... (4 Replies)
I splited a file into parts, then i wrote a script to convert the format of the file names to this: part1.dat part2.dat
but I wonder why part.dat is also created knowing that the k variable starts from 1
rm -f part*
$(split -b $1 file.1 part_)
set k = 1
for i in $(ls part_*)
do
mv -f... (1 Reply)
Hi ,
Need help to rename the files in a folder. The .xml needs to be removed from the middle and appended to the end as in the example shown .
Example From:
TestMessage.xml2010-10-19_20_21_08
TestMessage.xml2010-10-20_20_21_09
TestMessage.xml2010-10-21_20_21_08... (4 Replies)
Hi All
I have a folder that contains hundreds of file with a names
3.msa
4.msa
21.msa
6.msa
345.msa
456.msa
98.msa
...
...
...
I need rename each of this file by adding "core_" in the begiining of each file such as
core_3.msa
core_4.msa
core_21.msa (4 Replies)
Hi All,
I am trying to change the XML filename in a folder to the rootelement in the XML file.
Example: TestMsg2010-10-19_20_20_54.xml
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8" ?>
<R1Msg TimeStamp="2010-10-19T08:49:08.000000Z>
<TestRec>
<ID>1000</ID>
</TestRec>
</R1Msg>
Wanted to extract the... (8 Replies)
Hello,
I want to rename more than 100 files. These files have "?" in there existing file name but I want to rename files to there first part before "?" token. I have tried using for loop but it isn't working so help following is the sample filename and for loop that am trying to use:
example of... (3 Replies)
Hi, Hope someone can help... I'm pretty much new to unix and can only do basic commands.
I have an issue where by every day I need to schedule a job to look in a folder with a name format of .IP. will be different each day (when the day is over the folder extension changes), and rename any... (5 Replies)
Hi,
I have 1000 *.txt files in a folder and I would like to rename them data1.txt through data1000.txt. The order does not matter or the names of the initial input files. How would I go about doing that? Thanks! (1 Reply)
hello
does someone want to help me for this one ?
i want to rename files & a folder according to the similarities in filenames
for example :
the file with the good name
cglogo tougl1953 dgmel bogd 01 -- ttgductoog ggdté gollogtd.ext1the others files needed to be renamed
cglogo... (5 Replies)
Hi Team,
I'm new to Unix shell scripting .
I've the following requirement
A folder contains the list of files with the following format
ab.name.11.first
ab.name.12.second
ab.name.13.third
----------
I have to rename the above file to like below
... (6 Replies)
Discussion started by: smile689
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xargs - build and execute command lines from standard input
SYNOPSIS
xargs [-0prtx] [-e[eof-str]] [-i[replace-str]] [-l[max-lines]] [-n max-args] [-s max-chars] [-P max-procs] [--null] [--eof[=eof-str]]
[--replace[=replace-str]] [--max-lines[=max-lines]] [--interactive] [--max-chars=max-chars] [--verbose] [--exit] [--max-procs=max-procs]
[--max-args=max-args] [--no-run-if-empty] [--version] [--help] [command [initial-arguments]]
DESCRIPTION
This manual page documents the GNU version of xargs. xargs reads arguments from the standard input, delimited by blanks (which can be pro-
tected with double or single quotes or a backslash) or newlines, and executes the command (default is /bin/echo) one or more times with any
initial-arguments followed by arguments read from standard input. Blank lines on the standard input are ignored.
xargs exits with the following status:
0 if it succeeds
123 if any invocation of the command exited with status 1-125
124 if the command exited with status 255
125 if the command is killed by a signal
126 if the command cannot be run
127 if the command is not found
1 if some other error occurred.
OPTIONS
--null, -0
Input filenames are terminated by a null character instead of by whitespace, and the quotes and backslash are not special (every
character is taken literally). Disables the end of file string, which is treated like any other argument. Useful when arguments
might contain white space, quote marks, or backslashes. The GNU find -print0 option produces input suitable for this mode.
--eof[=eof-str], -e[eof-str]
Set the end of file string to eof-str. If the end of file string occurs as a line of input, the rest of the input is ignored. If
eof-str is omitted, there is no end of file string. If this option is not given, the end of file string defaults to "_".
--help Print a summary of the options to xargs and exit.
--replace[=replace-str], -i[replace-str]
Replace occurences of replace-str in the initial arguments with names read from standard input. Also, unquoted blanks do not termi-
nate arguments. If replace-str is omitted, it defaults to "{}" (like for `find -exec'). Implies -x and -l 1.
--max-lines[=max-lines], -l[max-lines]
Use at most max-lines nonblank input lines per command line; max-lines defaults to 1 if omitted. Trailing blanks cause an input
line to be logically continued on the next input line. Implies -x.
--max-args=max-args, -n max-args
Use at most max-args arguments per command line. Fewer than max-args arguments will be used if the size (see the -s option) is
exceeded, unless the -x option is given, in which case xargs will exit.
--interactive, -p
Prompt the user about whether to run each command line and read a line from the terminal. Only run the command line if the response
starts with `y' or `Y'. Implies -t.
--no-run-if-empty, -r
If the standard input does not contain any nonblanks, do not run the command. Normally, the command is run once even if there is no
input.
--max-chars=max-chars, -s max-chars
Use at most max-chars characters per command line, including the command and initial arguments and the terminating nulls at the ends
of the argument strings. The default is as large as possible, up to 20k characters.
--verbose, -t
Print the command line on the standard error output before executing it.
--version
Print the version number of xargs and exit.
--exit, -x
Exit if the size (see the -s option) is exceeded.
--max-procs=max-procs, -P max-procs
Run up to max-procs processes at a time; the default is 1. If max-procs is 0, xargs will run as many processes as possible at a
time. Use the -n option with -P; otherwise chances are that only one exec will be done.
SEE ALSO find(1L), locate(1L), locatedb(5L), updatedb(1) Finding Files (on-line in Info, or printed)
XARGS(1L)