01-30-2011
renaming directories with shell script
Hi All
after looking around the website and various other resources I become stuck. I'm trying to rename directories from
Firstname Initial Lastname to lastname,_firstname_initial
so far ive got
for f in {./}
do
rename -n 'y/A-Z/a-z/' *
rename -n 's/\ /_/g' *
done
This is working well at removing the capital letters and deleting the spaces in the directory names, I just can't work out how to reverse the order of the names.
I was looking at
name=${f}
last=${name%\w+}
not to sure how to get the rest of it together.
thanks for any assistance
Last edited by harlequin; 01-30-2011 at 03:09 AM..
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