Assuming you're using either Kshell or bash, this should work:
When you run this and the output looks good, delete the echo from the line to actually do the rename.
The syntax ${dirname%%.*} removes the longest string starting with a dot (.) to the end of the string contained in dirname. This will chop everything from the first dot to the end of the original name resulting in something like:
ive looked and couldnt find an answer...
can someone tell me how i can replace spaces and characters with an "_" on multiple folders?
thanx muchly. (1 Reply)
Hello,
this is my first post, and yeah, I'm quite new to UNIX, so please bare with me... My question has to do with a few Macs on a Windows network, but since the question is not OS X specific (I think) or Windows specific (I think), but rather UNIXish (I think) I chose to post here rather than... (3 Replies)
I have lot of files whose names are something like the following. I want to change the name of all the files from 'npt02' to 'n02'.
npt02-z30-sr65-rgdt0p50-dc0p01-16x12drw.tpf
npt02-z30-sr65-rgdt0p50-dc0p01-8x6drw.back
npt02-z30-sr65-rgdt0p50-dc0p01-8x6drw-bst-mis.xy... (5 Replies)
I hope some one can help me
I have multiple files in a directory with out extension like as below mentioned. But i want to change all the file names along .DDMMYYYYHHMISS format. And all files should have same DDMMYYYYHHMISS.
Scenario:
direcory name = /vol/best/srcfiles
files in a... (4 Replies)
I have written a csh script that changes the name of file from src to dst.
I am getting the error below:
TESTAmvfiles
DONE TESTAmvfiles
set: Variable name must begin with a letter.
The csh script is:
#!/bin/csh
#... (0 Replies)
Hi,
I would like to write a loop to change the names of files in a directory. The files are called data1.txt through data1000.txt. I'd like to change their names to a1.txt through a1000.txt. How do I go about doing that? Thanks! (2 Replies)
I have file names as shown and want to change the name to have only the first four numbers.
/home/chrisd/Desktop/nips/nips_2013/5212-learning-feature-selection-dependencies-in-multi-task-learning.pdf
/home/chrisd/Desktop/nips/nips_2013/5213-parametric-task-learning.pdf... (3 Replies)
I have a series of files as follows
file-1.pdf
file-2.pdf
file-3.pdf
file-4.pdf
file-5.pdf
file-6.pdf
file-7.pdf
I want to have the file names with odd numbers
starting from an initial number, for example 2000.
The result would be the following:
file-2001.pdf
file-2003.pdf... (9 Replies)
BASENAME(1) BSD General Commands Manual BASENAME(1)NAME
basename, dirname -- return filename or directory portion of pathname
SYNOPSIS
basename string [suffix]
basename [-a] [-s suffix] string [...]
dirname string
DESCRIPTION
The basename utility deletes any prefix ending with the last slash '/' character present in string (after first stripping trailing slashes),
and a suffix, if given. The suffix is not stripped if it is identical to the remaining characters in string. The resulting filename is
written to the standard output. A non-existent suffix is ignored. If -a is specified, then every argument is treated as a string as if
basename were invoked with just one argument. If -s is specified, then the suffix is taken as its argument, and all other arguments are
treated as a string.
The dirname utility deletes the filename portion, beginning with the last slash '/' character to the end of string (after first stripping
trailing slashes), and writes the result to the standard output.
EXAMPLES
The following line sets the shell variable FOO to /usr/bin.
FOO=`dirname /usr/bin/trail`
DIAGNOSTICS
The basename and dirname utilities exit 0 on success, and >0 if an error occurs.
SEE ALSO csh(1), sh(1)STANDARDS
The basename and dirname utilities are expected to be IEEE Std 1003.2 (``POSIX.2'') compatible.
BSD April 18, 1994 BSD