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Top Forums Shell Programming and Scripting Moving and renaming multiple files in a directory Post 302759681 by Chubler_XL on Tuesday 22nd of January 2013 06:23:15 PM
Old 01-22-2013
You should use $i instead of $FILES on the mv commandline.

If time with seconds is just for unique filenames try mktemp instead:

Code:
DIR=/transfer/move/sys/mail/20130123
FILES=$(ls $DIR)
if [ ! -z "${FILES}" ] ; then
    for i in ${FILES} ; do
        mv -f $DIR/$i $(mktemp --suffix=.dat $DIR/MYFILENAME_XXXXXX)
    done
fi

 

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