The suggestion above by Agama is the only one that I could get to give me 'almost there' results. There is still a question but I will start by showing the one that worked:
namefile
Code:
01.jpg Arthur Adams.jpg
02.jpg Catherine Albero.jpg
03.jpg Ronald Alexander.jpg
04.jpg Elizabeth Alfano.jpg
05.jpg Fran Alfano.jpg
Script
Code:
#!/bin/ksh
cat namefile | while read index name
do
echo $index.jpg $name.jpg
done
Results
Code:
01.jpg Arthur Adams.jpg
02.jpg Catherine Albero.jpg
03.jpg Ronald Alexander.jpg
...
I'll document the problem in next submission
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This is a continuation of previous reply. I can not make any sense of the error messages. This script is the same as the previous one but with "cp" instead of "echo".
Script to rename files:
Code:
#!/bin/ksh
cat namefile| while read index name
do
cp $index.jpg $name.jpg
done
I am trying to write a piece of code that will call a value from an array. There are multiple arrays that I need to call data from. Only one array needs to be used based on the step within the program. The arrays have the names "cue_0", "cue_1", and so on.
I can't figure out how to call a value... (2 Replies)
I want to write a shell script that will rename all the file names to today's date attached to it..
so for example i have a file names like
file1.sales.20081201.txt.c
zbrs.salestxtn.20091101.txt.inn
then it will rename both the files with todays date to it so the file names get changed... (1 Reply)
I have a file that looks like this
2 4 10 500 tim9
5 8 14 700 tim9
3 5 15 432 john1
1 4 12 999 ellen2
So basically what i want to do is fine duplicate names on column 5 and rename it with an extention (i.e. tim9_1 and tim9_2).
so the output file will look like this
2 4 10 500 tim9_1... (1 Reply)
I have 7 files with 7 different names coming into a specified folder on weekly basis, i need to pick a file one after another and load into oracle table using sql loader. I am using ksh to do this. So in the process if the file has error records and if sql loader fails to load into oracle tables,... (2 Replies)
Hi Guys,
I have a small problem of renaming multiple files. For example I have names of a set of files in one directory like
K2_34625-34675
K7_988963-988983
K12_773882-7734102
and the other set corresponding to the same is
U_P_321_9_3_11.ab1
U_P_322_9_3_11.ab1
U_P_323_9_3_11.ab1
Now... (23 Replies)
Hi
I want to store the file names into an array.
I have written like this but I am getting error.
declare -A arr_Filenames
ls -l *.log | set -A arr_Filenames $(awk '{print $9}')
index=0
while (( $index < ${#arr_Filenames
})); do
Current_Filename=${arr_Filenames}
... (5 Replies)
Hi there,
Firstly, I have no experience with shell scripts so would really appreciate some help.
I have the following shell script that is causing some problems:
moveit()
{
&& set -x
if
then
DOUBLE_DELIVERY=$(grep... (6 Replies)
I have hundreds of files with weird names, something like this:
I was wondering how can I rename them all keeping the sampleid and the last extension, something like this:
Any help will be greatly appreciated. (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
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I have to rename the above file to like below
... (6 Replies)
Hi, I have about 60 files in a directory and need to rename those files. For example the file names are
i_can_phone_yymmdd.txt (where yymmdd is the date. i.e 170420 etc)
i_usa_phone_1_yymmdd.txt
i_eng_phone_4_yymmdd.txt
The new file names should be
phone.txt
phone_1.txt
phone_4.txt
I am... (4 Replies)
08-20-2010
