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Top Forums UNIX for Dummies Questions & Answers Renaming multiple files in a folder Post 302499320 by Franklin52 on Thursday 24th of February 2011 04:47:41 AM
Old 02-24-2011
With the provided xml file I get this output:
Code:
$ ls *.xml
TestMsg2010-10-19_20_20_54.xml
$ cat script
for i in *.xml
do 
  awk -F"[ <]" 'BEGIN{f=FILENAME; sub(".*Msg","",f)}
  /TimeStamp=/ {f=$2 f; print "mv " FILENAME " " f; exit}' "$i"
done
$ ./script
mv TestMsg2010-10-19_20_20_54.xml R1Msg2010-10-19_20_20_54.xml
$

 

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