I have a good script to rename multiple files, but what's the best way I can remove some text from multiple filenames? Say I have a directory with 35 files with a .XLS at the end, how can I rename them to remove the .XLS but keep everything the same, without having to mv manually. Thanks. (6 Replies)
Hello
i have the files in this format
pdb1i0t.ent
pdb1lv7.ent
pdb1pp6.ent
pdb1tj2.ent
pdb1xg2.ent
pdb2b4b.ent
pdb2ewe.ent
Now i have to remove the prefix pdb from all the files and also i need to change the extension of .ent to .txt
The new file should look like this
... (3 Replies)
have this shl that will FTP a file from the a directory in windows to UNIX, It get the name of the file stored in this variable $UpLoadFileName then put in the local directory LocalDir="${MPATH}/xxxxx/dat_files" that part seems to be working, but then I need to take that file and rename, I am using... (3 Replies)
Hi All,
We are in the process of Migrating from AIX 4 to Solaris 10 and getting a Few Errors.
I have been programming in shell but could never establish muself as an expert, hence please need you help.
I am Getting Bad Substitution error in my script, I have isolated the issue and its... (6 Replies)
I have to rename a large number of files so that the name of each file corresponds to a code number that is given side by side in a list (textfile).
The list contains in column A the filename of the actual files to be renamed and in column B the name (a client code, 9 digits) that has to be... (7 Replies)
unix program to which a directory name will be passed as
parameter. This directory will contain files with various
extensions. This script will create directories with the names of the
extention of the files and then put the files in the
corresponding folder. All files which do not have any... (2 Replies)
Hi All,
I am trying to rename the extension of a set of file from .txt to .xtx. When I run the following script,
#!/bin/sh
l=`ls /f`
for f in $l
do "mv $f ${f%.txt}.xtx" ;
done
a file such as 1.txt is renamed to 1? where ? is a strange character. Could you please help me fix the code... (3 Replies)
Hi
Am trying to move a file from one name to another
When I do "ls" to check for the moved filename
I can see the file but when I try the same with a script am unable..
I think am doing some pretty silly error.. please help..
toMove=`ls | grep -E "partition.+"`
mv $toMove partition._org... (7 Replies)
I'm afraid this is a silly question but I can't figure it out.
I have a script like so...
echo "Enter DRDL Signature Version Number"
read DRDL_Number
mv signature_output.csv SERVICE_OBJECTS_S-$DRDL_Number.csv
The resultant filename does not contain the .csv as follows.... (3 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)
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LEARN ABOUT PHP
glob
GLOB(3) 1 GLOB(3)glob - Find pathnames matching a patternSYNOPSIS
array glob (string $pattern, [int $flags])
DESCRIPTION
The glob(3) function searches for all the pathnames matching $pattern according to the rules used by the libc glob() function, which is
similar to the rules used by common shells.
PARAMETERS
o $pattern
- The pattern. No tilde expansion or parameter substitution is done.
o $flags
- Valid flags:
o GLOB_MARK - Adds a slash to each directory returned
o GLOB_NOSORT - Return files as they appear in the directory (no sorting). When this flag is not used, the pathnames are
sorted alphabetically
o GLOB_NOCHECK - Return the search pattern if no files matching it were found
o GLOB_NOESCAPE - Backslashes do not quote metacharacters
o GLOB_BRACE - Expands {a,b,c} to match 'a', 'b', or 'c'
o GLOB_ONLYDIR - Return only directory entries which match the pattern
o GLOB_ERR - Stop on read errors (like unreadable directories), by default errors are ignored.
RETURN VALUES
Returns an array containing the matched files/directories, an empty array if no file matched or FALSE on error.
Note
On some systems it is impossible to distinguish between empty match and an error.
CHANGELOG
+--------+--------------------+
|Version | |
| | |
| | Description |
| | |
+--------+--------------------+
| 5.1.0 | |
| | |
| | |
| | GLOB_ERR was added |
| | |
+--------+--------------------+
EXAMPLES
Example #1
Convenient way how glob(3) can replace opendir(3) and friends.
<?php
foreach (glob("*.txt") as $filename) {
echo "$filename size " . filesize($filename) . "
";
}
?>
The above example will output something similar to:
funclist.txt size 44686
funcsummary.txt size 267625
quickref.txt size 137820
NOTES
Note
This function will not work on remote files as the file to be examined must be accessible via the server's filesystem.
Note
This function isn't available on some systems (e.g. old Sun OS).
Note
The GLOB_BRACE flag is not available on some non GNU systems, like Solaris.
SEE ALSO opendir(3), readdir(3), closedir(3), fnmatch(3).
PHP Documentation Group GLOB(3)