i have a folder that contains 100's of files: abc, bca, def, ghi....
i want to rename abc with 1, bca with 2, def with 3, ghi with 4 and so on.
my way, i create a file.txt with contents:
1
2
3
4
i use while loop to rename my files. without using file.txt, i just want to rename abc with... (4 Replies)
Hi Guys,
I have 5000 files in a folder. all are .DAT files.
I want to rename them as .TXT files.
I tried the following command.
mv *.DAT *. TXT
But it is throwing an error. Can you please tell me what am i doing wrong.
Thanks & Regards,
Magesh. (11 Replies)
hello, I need to build a shell script that receives the folder to copy by parameter and copy all files except thumb.db to another folder and rename them like, file.jpg renamed to file_bb1.jpg.
can someone help me
Thanks (4 Replies)
Hello, I'm trying to create a script that sorts documents by author (found in file name) and then create a directory for that author. For example,
Input:
John - Paper_1.txt
John - Paper_2.txt
Mark - Paper_1.txt
Jill - Paper_1.txt
Output:
dir/John/Paper_1.txt
dir/John/Paper_2.txt... (1 Reply)
Hi,
I want to rename all the files (more than 100 files) in a fodler to another folder with date&time stamp.
foe eg,
file1.dat
file2.dat
file3.dat
..
to be renamed as
file1100629_16_30_15.txt (yy-mon-dd_hh_mi_ss)
file1100629_16_30_16.txt
..
so on (2 Replies)
Is there a way to use Vim or Ex to rename all files in a folder? For example if i have a folder with Apples1.txt, Apples2.txt, Apples3.txt, could I rename all files so they are Oranges1.txt, Oranges2.txt, Oranges3.txt ?
I know with :bufdo %s/apples/oranges/g|update you can do this for inside... (5 Replies)
Hi.
I don't have any experience with making scripts in bash. I need a simple script to rename all files in a folder to the format file1.avi, file2.avi, file3.avi, and so on.....
Please note that the original files have different filenames and different extensions. But they all need to be... (2 Replies)
Hi,
I'm really new at this but have several hundred files that i need to do something with and save with a new name. The files are 26 columns wide. I want to select some for renaming. I've figured out what to do to each file ("file-1.CSV"| grep -v "=" | cut -f 1-4,9,14,15,18,19,20,21,22,24,26... (2 Replies)
Hi All,
My requirement is as follows:
A file (say abc) will be having list of the .txt file names. I need to read this abc file line by line and rename the .txt file names inside it and move them to other folder/path.
Eg:
abc
-------
file1.txt
file2.txt
file3.txt
Output (should... (1 Reply)
I want to rename all files and folder containing underscore in name and replace underscore with hyphen.
Currently I am using following code,
rename '_' '-' */*/*
It was working but now it is showing me "Argument list too long"
Please help! (2 Replies)
Discussion started by: opticalpigion
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echo(1B) SunOS/BSD Compatibility Package Commands echo(1B)NAME
echo - echo arguments to standard output
SYNOPSIS
/usr/ucb/echo [-n] [argument]
DESCRIPTION
echo writes its arguments, separated by BLANKs and terminated by a NEWLINE, to the standard output.
echo is useful for producing diagnostics in command files and for sending known data into a pipe, and for displaying the contents of envi-
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For example, you can use echo to determine how many subdirectories below the root directory (/) is your current directory, as follows:
o echo your current-working-directory's full pathname
o pipe the output through tr to translate the path's embedded slash-characters into space-characters
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example% /usr/bin/echo "echo $PWD | tr '/' ' ' | wc -w"
See tr(1) and wc(1) for their functionality.
The shells csh(1), ksh(1), and sh(1), each have an echo built-in command, which, by default, will have precedence, and will be invoked if
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