I have a freebsd box with a smb connection to a Windows server - I use rsync to copy specific directories, and files, between the two.
The problem is the Windows box has files with space characters in their filenames and rsync fails to copy these. Reading the documentation of rsync it appears it... (3 Replies)
I want to make a script for change filename's character not in English for a given directory. But I am not sure where am I starting from due to I am a little bit new user for scripts.
At least is there anybody can help me to make first step ,how can I find illegal or unwanted characters in file... (5 Replies)
I'm trying to rename a file name but the original file has a special character caused by typo. I've tried numerous combination of characters but the file name (original) is still not being recognized which in turn, would not allow me to rename the file.
Can someone help? The filename is a... (1 Reply)
Hi,
I need to move filenames with the following format below into filenames without the ~ like sample below. I hope you can help me create a simple unix script that will do this. Thanks in advance!
move filename from:
AIRS20081225-235641.BSP~
AIRS20081225-235648.BSP~
AIRS20081225-235640.BSP~... (3 Replies)
Hi All,
I have named a file with current date,time and year as follows:
month=`date | awk '{print $2}'`
date=`date | awk '{print $3}'`
year=`date | awk '{print $6}'`
time=`date +%Hh_%Mm_%Ss'`
filename="test_"$month"_"$date"_"$year"_"$time".txt"
> $filename
The file is created with a... (2 Replies)
I would like to display the last 8 characters of the filenames for filenames of different lengths.
I can delete the last 8 characters with sed but dont know how to only show the last 8 characters.
The filenames are something like;
afxH340800340000
afxH30800340021
afxR3080034002122
I... (3 Replies)
Hi everyone,
I have a file called pdf.txt which has the following list inside:
7110412_1_31122012.pdf
7286510_4_46667100.pdf
4002176_1_00018824.pdf
...
I need a looping script to REMOVE the 8th and 9th character of the filenames listed, no matter what character that is.
So... (4 Replies)
Hello,
I do have folders containing having funny strings in their names and one space.
First, I do remove the funny strings and replace the space by an underscore.
find . -name '* *' | while read file;
do
target=`echo "$file" | sed 's/... (2 Replies)
Hi All,
Special character ? is added in between filename. Am not able to figure our why this is happening. In my Development environment special characters are not present. This issue is happening in the higher environment.
It would be helpful if somebody can tell what are the possible... (3 Replies)
I have a file which comes every day and the file data look's as below.
Vi abc.txt
a|b|c|d\n
a|g|h|j\n
Some times we receive the file with only a new line character in the file like
vi abc.txt
\n (8 Replies)