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Top Forums Shell Programming and Scripting changing the file-name in a directory for all files matching a particular criteria Post 302713151 by mukulverma2408 on Wednesday 10th of October 2012 10:27:08 AM
Old 10-10-2012
changing the file-name in a directory for all files matching a particular criteria
i have a directory which consist of multiple files out of which there are some files that has -e in their name.

I want to write a script that will change all those file-name to -l

example there are some files with name :
Code:
file1-e.wav
file2-e.wav
file3-english-e.wav
file-4-e.wav

expected output
Code:
file1-l.wav
file2-l.wav
file3-english-l.wav
file-4-l.wav

 

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qwavjoin

qwavjoin(1)							 quelcom man pages						       qwavjoin(1)

NAME

       qwavjoin - join wav files

SYNOPSIS

       qwavjoin [option]... file1 file2...

DESCRIPTION

       qwavjoin  reads	a  list  of wav files and joins them in one wav file in the specified order. the files must have the same parameters (i.e.
       sampling rate, bytes per sample, ...) in order that the joining can be done.

OPTIONS

       -h, --help
	      show a brief help and exit.

       -o <outfile>, --output=<outfile>
	      outfile is the name of the file where all the samples will be copied. if this option is not used, the samples from the second to the
	      last file of the list will be appended to file1.

       -v, --verbose
	      show which operations are done.

       -V, --version
	      show version and exit.

BUGS

       tests has been done only with 44100 Hz 16 bit stereo files, though it may work with mono/stereo 8/16 bits files.

AUTHOR

       dmanye@etse.urv.es
       http://www.etse.urv.es/~dmanye/quelcom/quelcom.html

SEE ALSO

       qwavinfo(1), qwavcut(1), qwavsilence(1), qwavfade(1), qwavheaderdump(1)
       qmp3info(1), qmp3join(1), qmp3cut(1), qmp3check(1), qmp3report(1)

quelcom 0.4.0							   february 2001						       qwavjoin(1)
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