hey guys
having some trouble figuring this out.
my program is supposed to take a name of a directory as a command line argument and change the filenames inside that directory to lowercase.
what i dont get is how you access that directory and go thru all the files and change the filenames... (1 Reply)
i have many files with extention filename.ASN_ERROR~ at a path. I want to move these files to another path and change extension to .ASN
There are more then 80,000 files so i cant use manual commands
muneebr (5 Replies)
Dear All,
I have some thousands of files in a folder and i need to change those file names without opening the file (no need to change anything in the file content, need to change the file name only). The filenames are as follows:
Myfile_name.1_parameter
Myfile_name.2_parameter... (6 Replies)
I have written a csh script that changes the name of file from src to dst.
I am getting the error below:
TESTAmvfiles
DONE TESTAmvfiles
set: Variable name must begin with a letter.
The csh script is:
#!/bin/csh
#... (0 Replies)
I have file names as shown and want to change the name to have only the first four numbers.
/home/chrisd/Desktop/nips/nips_2013/5212-learning-feature-selection-dependencies-in-multi-task-learning.pdf
/home/chrisd/Desktop/nips/nips_2013/5213-parametric-task-learning.pdf... (3 Replies)
I have a series of files as follows
file-1.pdf
file-2.pdf
file-3.pdf
file-4.pdf
file-5.pdf
file-6.pdf
file-7.pdf
I want to have the file names with odd numbers
starting from an initial number, for example 2000.
The result would be the following:
file-2001.pdf
file-2003.pdf... (9 Replies)
I want to change the name of several files within a folders (directory) and subdirectories in OS X. If I only wanted to change file names within the directory I guess I would use:
rm photo*.jpg picture*.jpg
I have lots of subdirectories, is there a way of getting the file changes for all... (5 Replies)
SHTOOL-SUBST.TMP(1) GNU Portable Shell Tool SHTOOL-SUBST.TMP(1)NAME
shtool-subst - GNU shtool sed(1) substitution operations
SYNOPSIS
shtool subst [-v|--verbose] [-t|--trace] [-n|--nop] [-w|--warning] [-q|--quiet] [-s|--stealth] [-i|--interactive] [-b|--backup ext]
[-e|--exec cmd] [-f|--file cmd-file] [file] [file ...]
DESCRIPTION
This command applies one or more sed(1) substitution operations to stdin or any number of files.
OPTIONS
The following command line options are available.
-v, --verbose
Display some processing information.
-t, --trace
Enable the output of the essential shell commands which are executed.
-n, --nop
No operation mode. Actual execution of the essential shell commands which would be executed is suppressed.
-w, --warning
Show warning on substitution operation resulting in no content change on every file. The default is to show a warning on substitution
operations resulted in no content change on all files.
-q, --quiet
Suppress warning on substitution operation resulting in no content change.
-s, --stealth
Stealth operation. Preserve timestamp on file.
-i, --interactive
Enter interactive mode where the user has to approve each operation.
-b, --backup ext
Preserve backup of original file using file name extension ext. Default is to overwrite the original file.
-e, --exec cmd
Specify sed(1) command directly.
-f, --file cmd-file
Read sed(1) command from file.
EXAMPLE
# shell script
shtool subst -i -e 's;(c) ([0-9]*)-2000;(c) 1-2001;' *.[ch]
# RPM spec-file
%install
shtool subst -v -n
-e 's;^(prefix=).*;1 $RPM_BUILD_ROOT%{_prefix};g'
-e 's;^(sysconfdir=).*;1 $RPM_BUILD_ROOT%{_prefix}/etc;g'
`find . -name Makefile -print`
make install
HISTORY
The GNU shtool subst command was originally written by Ralf S. Engelschall <rse@engelschall.com> in 2001 for GNU shtool. It was prompted
by the need to have a uniform and convenient patching frontend to sed(1) operations in the OpenPKG package specifications.
SEE ALSO shtool(1), sed(1).
18-Jul-2008 shtool 2.0.8 SHTOOL-SUBST.TMP(1)