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Top Forums Shell Programming and Scripting Renaming by manipulating strings Post 302718905 by Scrutinizer on Sunday 21st of October 2012 11:53:37 AM
Old 10-21-2012
Try shell only:
Code:
for file in *.ext
do
  first=${file%% -- *}
  secondext=${file##* -- }
  second=${secondext%.*}
  ext=${file##*.}
  middle=${file#$first}
  middle=${middle%$secondext}
  mv "$file" "$second$middle$first.$ext"
done


Last edited by Scrutinizer; 10-21-2012 at 02:50 PM.. Reason: more mnemonicity...
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ldns(3) 						     Library Functions Manual							   ldns(3)

NAME
ldns_dname_compare, ldns_dname_interval SYNOPSIS
#include <stdint.h> #include <stdbool.h> #include <ldns/ldns.h> int ldns_dname_compare(const ldns_rdf *dname1, const ldns_rdf *dname2); int ldns_dname_interval(const ldns_rdf *prev, const ldns_rdf *middle, const ldns_rdf *next); DESCRIPTION
ldns_dname_compare() Compares the two dname rdf's according to the algorithm for ordering in RFC4034 Section 6. dname1: First dname rdf to compare dname2: Second dname rdf to compare Returns -1 if dname1 comes before dname2, 1 if dname1 comes after dname2, and 0 if they are equal. ldns_dname_interval() check if middle lays in the interval defined by prev and next prev <= middle < next. This is usefull for nsec check- ing prev: the previous dname middle: the dname to check next: the next dname return 0 on error or unknown, -1 when middle is in the interval, +1 when not AUTHOR
The ldns team at NLnet Labs. Which consists out of Jelte Jansen and Miek Gieben. REPORTING BUGS
Please report bugs to ldns-team@nlnetlabs.nl or in our bugzilla at http://www.nlnetlabs.nl/bugs/index.html COPYRIGHT
Copyright (c) 2004 - 2006 NLnet Labs. Licensed under the BSD License. There is NO warranty; not even for MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. SEE ALSO
ldns_dname_is_subdomain. And perldoc Net::DNS, RFC1034, RFC1035, RFC4033, RFC4034 and RFC4035. REMARKS
This manpage was automaticly generated from the ldns source code by use of Doxygen and some perl. 30 May 2006 ldns(3)
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