Hi there,
I hope someone can help me with this problem :
I have a directory (/var/www/file/imgprofil) which contains about 10000 JPG files. They have a naming convention thus :
prefix-date-key-suffix.jpg
they all have the prefix p-20050608-
then AAAA is a 4 letter code
the suffix is... (7 Replies)
I'm looking to determine if I can use a grep command to read file and rename the file based on the first 3 characters of the data in the file.
An example is:
Read FileA
If the first 3 positions of the data in the file are "ITP", then rename the file as FileA_ITP, else if the first 3... (3 Replies)
Hello all.
I am new to this forum (and somewhat new to UNIX / LINUX - I started using ubuntu 1 year ago).:b:
I have the following problem that I have not been able to figure out how to take care of and I was wondering if anyone could help me out.:confused:
I have all of my music stored in... (7 Replies)
I am special requirements to rename file.
I have files with names like below:
1_firstname1_lastname1.html
2_firstname2_lastname2.html
3_fistname3_lastname2.html
I would like these file to be renamed as below
firstname1_lastname1.html
firstname2_lastname2.html... (5 Replies)
Hi All,
I am very new to shell scripting .
In my current task i want to create .sh file that will rename the existing file with appending _bu in it. And then copy new file .
e.g if i have file linuxFirst.java then i want to rename it to linuxFirst_bu.java ..Then want replace with latest... (1 Reply)
Hi,
i have a file with some data ..look for some specific value in the file and if found that value rename the file with the value found in the file..
ex..
File.txt
1236 43715825601ANDERSSON,
1236 437158256031963040120060901200609010000000
1236 43715825604123 MCCL AVE UPPER
1236 ... (11 Replies)
I have one input file ABC.txt and one output DEF.txt. After the ABC is processed and created output, I want to rename ABC.txt to ABC.orig and DEF to ABC.txt. Currently when I am doing this, it does not process the input file as it cannot read and write to the same file. How can I achieve this?
... (12 Replies)
I have a specific set (all ending with .bam) of downloaded files in a directory /home/cmccabe/Desktop/NGS/API/2-15-2016. What I am trying to do is use a match to $2 in name to rename the downloaded files. To make things a more involved the date of the folder is unique and in the header of name... (1 Reply)
In the below bash I am trying to copy the only text file (always only one) in /home/cmccabe/Desktop/list/QC/metrics.txt and rename each of the 3 text files according to /home/cmccabe/Desktop/test/list.txt using lines 3, 4 ,5. This format (that is list.txt) is always 5 lines. Thank you :).
... (12 Replies)
In the below there are two generic .vcf files (genome.S1.vcf and genome.S2.vcf) in a directory. There wont always be two genaric files but I am trying to use bash to rename each of these generic files with specfic text (unique identifier) within in each .vcf. The text will always be different, but... (11 Replies)
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LEARN ABOUT CENTOS
rename
RENAME(1) User Commands RENAME(1)NAME
rename - rename files
SYNOPSIS
rename [options] expression replacement file...
DESCRIPTION
rename will rename the specified files by replacing the first occurrence of expression in their name by replacement.
OPTIONS -v, --verbose
Give visual feedback which files where renamed, if any.
-V, --version
Display version information and exit.
-s, --symlink
Peform rename on symlink target
-h, --help
Display help text and exit.
EXAMPLES
Given the files foo1, ..., foo9, foo10, ..., foo278, the commands
rename foo foo0 foo?
rename foo foo0 foo??
will turn them into foo001, ..., foo009, foo010, ..., foo278. And
rename .htm .html *.htm
will fix the extension of your html files.
WARNING
The renaming has no safeguards. If the user has permission to rewrite file names, the command will perform the action without any ques-
tions. For example, the result can be quite drastic when the command is run as root in the /lib directory. Always make a backup before
running the command, unless you truly know what you are doing.
SEE ALSO mmv(1), mv(1)AVAILABILITY
The rename command is part of the util-linux package and is available from ftp://ftp.kernel.org/pub/linux/utils/util-linux/.
util-linux June 2011 RENAME(1)