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Top Forums Shell Programming and Scripting Find files that do not match specific patterns Post 302490873 by nikos-koutax on Wednesday 26th of January 2011 03:13:07 AM
Old 01-26-2011
Find files that do not match specific patterns
Hi all,

I have been searching online to find the answer for getting a list of files that do not match certain criteria but have been unsuccessful.

I have a directory that has many jpg files. What I need to do is get a list of the files that do not match both of the following patterns (I have used the ? to act as any single character-in my case these are stricly numbers):

???-??-????.jpp AND ???-??-????-?mi.jpg

I would like to output the result to a text file.

Once I have this list it would be very helpful if anyone could propose an easy way to rename the files that to not match this pattern.

many thanks
 

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MRENAME(1)						      General Commands Manual							MRENAME(1)

NAME

       mrename - program to rename files

SYNOPSIS

       mrename 'pattern' prefix [option]

DESCRIPTION

       This  manual  page  documents  briefly the mrename command.  This manual page was written for the Debian GNU/Linux distribution because the
       original program does not have a manual page.

       mrename is a tool for easy and automatic renaming of many files.  The 'pattern' is the pattern to search files to rename (quoted  to  avoid
       that  bash  resolve  it),  and prefix is the prefix that will be added to the name of each file. The two alternative options for copying or
       moving files in the new name are explained below.  All parameters are needed, and you have to stay and launch the script in the same direc-
       tory of the files to be renamed. The program should be able to write in this directory.

OPTIONS

       There are only the following three options.

       -c     The option -c will copy each file with the new filename.

       -m     The option -m will move each file in the new filename.

       -h     Display help.

EXAMPLE

       If  you	have  a  directory  with two jpeg images prof.jpg and forp.jpg and you want to add them a prefix like item0, item1 etc..  (that is
       item0prof.jpg, item1forp.jpg etc..) do this:

	  cd /path/to/the/images
	  mrename '*.jpg' item -c

       to copy each matching file into another with the new name

	  mrename '*.jpg' item -m

       to rename each file without keeping a copy with the previous name

Word-Wide-Web:
       http://alfalinux.sourceforge.net/mrename.php3

AUTHOR
:
       Giancarlo -rofus- Erra
       e-mail: rofus@mindless.com

       This manual page was written by Dr. Guenter Bechly <gbechly@debian.org>, for the Debian GNU/Linux system (but may be used by others). It is
       distributed under the GPL just like mrename itself.

								 October  22, 2000							MRENAME(1)
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