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Top Forums Shell Programming and Scripting How to rename files Post 302490733 by jim mcnamara on Tuesday 25th of January 2011 02:53:39 PM
Old 01-25-2011
Use a list of folders andn the find command:
create a file with the names of the directories
ex: call the file dirnames, put the directory names in the file using an editor or ls or whatever
Code:
mydir
/path/to/your/dir

Code:
while read dir
do
    find $dir -name '*.txt' |
    while read fname 
    do
        newname=$(fname%%_}".txt"
        mv $fname $newname
    done
done <  dirnames

TEST it first to be sure, change the mv command to an echo for example
 

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gtkdoc-mktmpl(1)					      General Commands Manual						  gtkdoc-mktmpl(1)

NAME
gtkdoc-mktmpl -- GTK DocBook documentation generator. SYNOPSIS
gtkdoc-mktmpl [ See below ] DESCRIPTION
gtkdoc-mktmpl This creates or updates the template files which contain the manually-edited documentation. (A template is a simple text form which is filled in with the description of a function, macro, enum, or struct. For functions and macros it also contains fields for describing the parameters.) This script reads in the existing templates, found in tmpl/*.sgml, moves these files to tmpl/*.sgml.bak, and then recreates the .sgml files according to the structure given in the file MODULE-sections.txt. Any new templates added, or new function parameters, are marked with FIXME so you can do a grep to see which parts need updating. Any templates which are no longer used (i.e. they are remove from MODULE-sections.txt) are placed in the file tmpl/MODULE-unused.txt. If they are included again later they are automatically copied back into position. If you are certain that these templates will never be used again you can delete them from MODULE-unused.txt. Any parameters to functions which are no longer used are separated from the rest of the parameters with the line <!-- # Unused Parameters # -->. It may be that the parameter name has just been changed, in which case you can copy the description to the parameter with the new name. You can delete the unused parameter descriptions when no longer needed. EXAMPLE
See /usr/share/doc/gtk-doc-tools/examples, for a makefile.am and a configure.in example file. AUTHOR
This manual page was written by Christian Marillat marillat@debian.org for the Debian GNU/Linux system (but may be used by others). gtkdoc-mktmpl(1)
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