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Top Forums Shell Programming and Scripting write shell script to rename file Post 302478889 by shubhig15 on Thursday 9th of December 2010 06:16:16 AM
Old 12-09-2010
write shell script to rename file
hi,
I need some help in writing shell script in a bourne shell.I am trying to rename the file..
eg.
Code:
find /root/data -type f -name "text*) | while read FILES
do
  newfile=${FILES/type_2.0_20101208_34.xml / tmp.xml}
  mv "$FILES" "$newfile"
done

above written script is working...If the name of my file is changed into type_2.0_20101208_35.xml so i have to write this filename in script.Every time when file name is change i have to change the the file name in script..But i do not want to editing in script to change the name of file..so what i write in place of type_2.0_20101208_34.xml in code..
Please help me to overcome this problem,...
Last edited by Franklin52; 12-09-2010 at 07:17 AM.. Reason: Please use code tags and indent your code, thanks
 

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