1. Shell Programming and Scripting

Greetings, I know i can use the mv command to move and rename one file. How can I do this with multiple files? example pic01.bmp to pic0001.bmp how can i perform this function on an entire directory of sequential files and keep them in sequence? Hints, suggestions are most welcome:) ... (1 Reply)

2. Shell Programming and Scripting

Hi All, Being new to scripting I am facing a new situation. We have an application that generates a file lets say dumpfile for each user under the users home directory when they execute the application. This is quite a huge file and imagine having that for over 40 users on a daily basis. The... (1 Reply)

3. Shell Programming and Scripting

I have a task to move more than 35000 files every two hours, from the same directory to another directory based on a file that has the list of filenames I tried the following logics (1) find . -name \*.dat > list for i in `cat list` do mv $i test/ done (2) cat list|xargs -i mv "{}"... (7 Replies)

4. UNIX for Dummies Questions & Answers

When I have a file for example with the wrong name I normally use the cp {filename} {new filename} comand so I will have the original as well as the correct named file. Just for backup purposes. Problem: I have a file that is 24gb with a case sensitive filename. The file was named with upper... (3 Replies)

5. Shell Programming and Scripting

Hi. I need help with a little script that will be used to move some files to their parent directory, delete the directory, rename one file in the parent directory and delete another, then continue to the next. Here's an example: /var/media/Music/Genesis/1970 album - Trespass (2008 Box -... (4 Replies)

6. Shell Programming and Scripting

Dears, I need your help! I got a problem and found some workaround solution but I donno how to realize it. I have a number of files (about 300 each day) and I need them to be renamed. All these files has fixed number of letters and name looks like this one:... (7 Replies)

7. Shell Programming and Scripting

I am a biologist and using an program on a computer cluster that generates a lot of data. The program creates a directory named ExperimentX (where X is a number) that contains files "out.pdb" and "log.txt". I would like to create a script that renames the out.pdb file to out_ExperimentX.pdb (or... (1 Reply)

8. Shell Programming and Scripting

Hi. I am trying to automate the movement and renaming of a number of files in a directory. I am using the 'mv' command as I do not have access to 'rename'. I have the following scripted FILES=$(ls /transfer/move/sys/mail/20130123/) if ; then for i in ${FILES} ; do mv... (4 Replies)

9. UNIX for Dummies Questions & Answers

I have a directory full of directories, say called A B C D E .... In each of these directories there are files called 1.dsp 2.dsp 3.dsp ..... along with others (with different extensions) I need to go through each of these directories and move the dsp file to another folder, but with the name now... (6 Replies)

10. Shell Programming and Scripting

Hey guys, ive been working on this for about 2hrs now - without any solution. At first I need to say I dont have skills in linux bash scripting, but I tried to use some codesnippets and manuals from google. What I want to do: I have different folders including 2 different filestypes with... (15 Replies)