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Top Forums Shell Programming and Scripting Unix file pattern check and replacement Post 302711967 by black_fender on Monday 8th of October 2012 09:27:54 AM
Old 10-08-2012
If the script encounters for month 201202 (lets say) 2 files like :
Access_file_Record_201202.txt and Access_file_Record_.201202

What should the script do ?

According to what you say it should rename them with Access_file_Record_201202 but in this case after renaming Access_file_Record_201202.txt in Access_file_Record_201202 when the script encounters Access_file_Record_.201202 it will overwrite the file Access_file_Record_201202 (which has the content of Access_file_Record_201202.txt) with the content of Access_file_Record_.201202 .

this thing will happen in ANY OS. you need to clarify this first, what exactly you want. You cannot have more than 1 file with the same name on the same path.
 

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