i have a folder that contains 100's of files: abc, bca, def, ghi....
i want to rename abc with 1, bca with 2, def with 3, ghi with 4 and so on.
my way, i create a file.txt with contents:
1
2
3
4
i use while loop to rename my files. without using file.txt, i just want to rename abc with... (4 Replies)
Hi Guys,
I have 5000 files in a folder. all are .DAT files.
I want to rename them as .TXT files.
I tried the following command.
mv *.DAT *. TXT
But it is throwing an error. Can you please tell me what am i doing wrong.
Thanks & Regards,
Magesh. (11 Replies)
Hi everyone.
I'm in need of a solution where i need to rename a folder to a name that's inside an XML file in that folder.
OS is Ubuntu 9.10 with Gnome.
I've tried using grep, sed and xpath, but can't seem to find a solution.
This is the simplified folder structure:
FOLDER-NAME
-... (4 Replies)
hello, I need to build a shell script that receives the folder to copy by parameter and copy all files except thumb.db to another folder and rename them like, file.jpg renamed to file_bb1.jpg.
can someone help me
Thanks (4 Replies)
Hi,
I want to rename all the files (more than 100 files) in a fodler to another folder with date&time stamp.
foe eg,
file1.dat
file2.dat
file3.dat
..
to be renamed as
file1100629_16_30_15.txt (yy-mon-dd_hh_mi_ss)
file1100629_16_30_16.txt
..
so on (2 Replies)
Hi.
I don't have any experience with making scripts in bash. I need a simple script to rename all files in a folder to the format file1.avi, file2.avi, file3.avi, and so on.....
Please note that the original files have different filenames and different extensions. But they all need to be... (2 Replies)
Hello,
I am new to shell scripting and stuck on renaming files in a folder. The files have the format
chp01_00001.wav
chp01_00002.wav
....
chp02_00001.wav
chp02_00002.wav
....
but I want them to have the following names:
chp_bloomy_00001.wav
chp_bloomy_00002.wav
chp_bloomy_00003.wav... (8 Replies)
Hi,
I'm really new at this but have several hundred files that i need to do something with and save with a new name. The files are 26 columns wide. I want to select some for renaming. I've figured out what to do to each file ("file-1.CSV"| grep -v "=" | cut -f 1-4,9,14,15,18,19,20,21,22,24,26... (2 Replies)
hi guys
i have a group of directory like these
p1( 15 - 16 )
p2( 17 -15 )
p1 ( 14 - 20 )
p2 ( 13 -17 )
..
.
.
directories contain numbers represent time
i want to rename all directories and change all numbers in directories' name .
for example
p1( 15 -16 ) will change to... (16 Replies)
I want to rename all files and folder containing underscore in name and replace underscore with hyphen.
Currently I am using following code,
rename '_' '-' */*/*
It was working but now it is showing me "Argument list too long"
Please help! (2 Replies)
Discussion started by: opticalpigion
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unix2dos
unix2dos(1) General Commands Manual unix2dos(1)NAME
unix2dos - UNIX to DOS text file format converter
SYNOPSYS
unix2dos [options] [-c convmode] [-o file ...] [-n infile outfile ...]
Options:
[-hkqV] [--help] [--keepdate] [--quiet] [--version]
DESCRIPTION
This manual page documents unix2dos, the program that converts text files in UNIX format to DOS format.
OPTIONS
The following options are available:
-h --help
Print online help.
-k --keepdate
Keep the date stamp of output file same as input file.
-q --quiet
Quiet mode. Suppress all warning and messages.
-V --version
Prints version information.
-c --convmode convmode
Sets conversion mode. Simulates unix2dos under SunOS.
-o --oldfile file ...
Old file mode. Convert the file and write output to it. The program default to run in this mode. Wildcard names may be used.
-n --newfile infile outfile ...
New file mode. Convert the infile and write output to outfile. File names must be given in pairs and wildcard names should NOT be
used or you WILL lost your files.
EXAMPLES
Get input from stdin and write output to stdout.
unix2dos
Convert and replace a.txt. Convert and replace b.txt.
unix2dos a.txt b.txt
unix2dos -o a.txt b.txt
Convert and replace a.txt in ASCII conversion mode. Convert and replace b.txt in ISO conversion mode.
unix2dos a.txt -c iso b.txt
unix2dos -c ascii a.txt -c iso b.txt
Convert and replace a.txt while keeping original date stamp.
unix2dos -k a.txt
unix2dos -k -o a.txt
Convert a.txt and write to e.txt.
unix2dos -n a.txt e.txt
Convert a.txt and write to e.txt, keep date stamp of e.txt same as a.txt.
unix2dos -k -n a.txt e.txt
Convert and replace a.txt. Convert b.txt and write to e.txt.
unix2dos a.txt -n b.txt e.txt
unix2dos -o a.txt -n b.txt e.txt
Convert c.txt and write to e.txt. Convert and replace a.txt. Convert and replace b.txt. Convert d.txt and write to f.txt.
unix2dos -n c.txt e.txt -o a.txt b.txt -n d.txt f.txt
DIAGNOSTICS BUGS
The program does not work properly under MSDOS in stdio processing mode. If you know why is that so, please tell me.
AUTHOR
Benjamin Lin - ( blin@socs.uts.edu.au )
MISCELLANY
Tested environment:
Linux 1.2.0 with GNU C 2.5.8
SunOS 4.1.3 with GNU C 2.6.3
MS-DOS 6.20 with Borland C++ 4.02
Suggestions and bug reports are welcome.
SEE ALSO dos2unix(1)1995.03.31 unix2dos v2.2 unix2dos(1)