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Top Forums Shell Programming and Scripting Moving and renaming multiple files in a directory Post 302759677 by jimbojames on Tuesday 22nd of January 2013 05:58:38 PM
Old 01-22-2013
Moving and renaming multiple files in a directory
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
Code:
FILES=$(ls /transfer/move/sys/mail/20130123/)
	if [ ! -z "${FILES}" ] ; then
		for i in ${FILES} ; do
			mv /transfer/move/sys/mail/20130123/${FILES} /transfer/archive/sys/mail/20130123/MYFILENAME_`date +%Y%m%d%M%S00`.dat ; done
	fi

which works perfectly when there is only one file in the directory, but when there are multiple files I get the following error
Quote:
Usage: mv [-I] [-i | -f] [-E{force|ignore|warn}] [--] src target
or: mv [-I] [-i | -f] [-E{force|ignore|warn}] [--] src1 ... srcN directory
Usage: mv [-I] [-i | -f] [-E{force|ignore|warn}] [--] src target
or: mv [-I] [-i | -f] [-E{force|ignore|warn}] [--] src1 ... srcN directory
.

I have attempted to add a sleep to the command, but the same error appears.

Can anyone advise what I am doing wrong, or even suggest a better way of achieving this?

Thanks in advance.
 

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LEARN ABOUT MINIX

warn.conf

warn.conf(4)							   File Formats 						      warn.conf(4)

NAME

       warn.conf - Kerberos warning configuration file

SYNOPSIS

       /etc/krb5/warn.conf

DESCRIPTION

       The  warn.conf file contains configuration information specifying how users will be warned by the ktkt_warnd daemon about ticket expiration
       on a Kerberos client. Credential expiration warnings are sent, by means of syslog, to auth.notice. All other warning messages are  sent	to
       daemon.notice.

       Each  Kerberos  client host must have a warn.conf file in order for users on that host to get Kerberos warnings from the client. Entries in
       the warn.conf file must have the following format:

       principal syslog | terminal | mail time [email_address]

       principal       Specifies the principal name to be warned. The asterisk (*) wildcard can be used to specify groups of principals.

       syslog	       Sends the warnings to the system's syslog. Depending on the /etc/syslog.conf  file,  syslog  entries  are  written  to  the
		       /var/adm/messages file and/or displayed on the terminal.

       terminal        Sends the warnings to display on the terminal.

       mail	       Sends the warnings as email to the address specified by email_address.

       time	       Specifies  how  much  time before the TGT expires when a warning should be sent. The default time value is seconds, but you
		       can specify h (hours) and m (minutes) after the number to specify other time values.

       email_address   Specifies the email address at which to send the warnings. This field must be specified only with the mail field.

EXAMPLES

       Example 1: Specifying warnings

       The following warn.conf entry

       * syslog 5m

       specifies that warnings will be sent to the syslog five minutes before the expiration of the TGT for all principals. The form of  the  mes-
       sage is:

       jdb@ACME.COM: your kerberos credentials expire in 5 minutes

FILES

       /usr/lib/krb5/ktkt_warnd        Kerberos warning daemon

SEE ALSO

       ktkt_warnd(1M), syslog.conf(4), SEAM(5)

SunOS 5.10							    22 Apr 2003 						      warn.conf(4)
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