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Top Forums Shell Programming and Scripting Batch rename files that do not match pattern Post 302577361 by atulkakrana on Tuesday 29th of November 2011 12:08:29 AM
Old 11-29-2011
Batch rename files that do not match pattern
Hi all,

I do not have programming experience and mostly use one-liner or sometimes more to get the job done. I am having problem to batch rename the files that do not match a particular pattern.

Sample file-names from directory:

Meeting_Packages.pdf 13_textfile0 19_textfile0 23_textfile0 29_textfile0 33_textfile1 45_textfile0 5_textfile3 Membership.pdf 13_textfile1 19_textfile1 23_textfile1 29_textfile1 34_textfile0 46_textfile0 6_textfile0 xyz2009.pdf 13_textfile2 19_textfile2 23_textfile2 29_textfile2 34_textfile1 47_textfile0 6_textfile1 meeting.ics

I want to rename the files i.e Meeting_Packages.pdf, Membership.pdf, meeting.ics and xyz2009.pdf to the file from where they came (input file). Actually it is output of 'ripmime' with mails as xx_textfilex and others are attachments. I want to name attachments as the original input file

My Code:

Code:
#!/bin/bash

1 FILES=*.mime
2 for f in $FILES
3 do
4	echo "Processing $f"
5      #rip mails into attachments and text files also add a prefix to text files
6      ripmime -i $f -d ~/test/ripmime --prefix 
7	#Remove white spaces from output files	
8	rename 's/ /_/g' ~/test/ripmime/*
9	#rename output attachments as original input files	
10	rename 's/\[^0-9]/'$f/ ~/test/ripmime/*     
11	
12 done

My problem is line-10 where I try to filter files other then xx_textfilex and rename. I tried different REGEX could not do that. I can select and rename the textfiles by:
rename 's/textfiles/'$f/ ~/test/ripmime/*

But I need inverse of that and rename files other then textfiles.

Need community help.

Atul
Last edited by Franklin52; 11-30-2011 at 03:16 AM.. Reason: Please use code tags for code and data samples, thank you
 

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exigrep

EXIGREP(8)						      System Manager's Manual							EXIGREP(8)

NAME

       EXIGREP - Search Exim's main log

SYNOPSIS

       exigrep [-l] pattern [log file] ...

DESCRIPTION

       The  exigrep  utility  is  a  Perl script that searches one or more main log files for entries that match a given pattern.  When it finds a
       match, it extracts all the log entries for the relevant message, not just those that match the pattern.	Thus, exigrep can extract complete
       log entries for a given message, or all mail for a given user, or for a given host, for example.

       The -l flag means 'literal', that is, treat all characters in the pattern as standing for themselves.  Otherwise the pattern must be a Perl
       regular expression.  The pattern match is case-insensitive.  If no file names are given on the command line, the standard input is read.

       If the location of a zcat command is known from the definition of ZCAT_COMMAND in Local/Makefile, exigrep  automatically  passes  any  file
       whose name ends in COMPRESS_SUFFIX through zcat as it searches it.

BUGS

       This manual page needs a major re-work. If somebody knows better groff than us and has more experience in writing manual pages, any patches
       would be greatly appreciated.

SEE ALSO

       exim(8), perlre(1), /usr/share/doc/exim4-base/

AUTHOR

       This manual page was stitched together from spec.txt by Andreas Metzler <ametzler at downhill.at.eu.org>, for the Debian  GNU/Linux  system
       (but may be used by others).

								  March 26, 2003							EXIGREP(8)
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