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Top Forums UNIX for Dummies Questions & Answers Rename scripts using xargs/sed Post 302769395 by Grueben on Tuesday 12th of February 2013 05:58:48 AM
Old 02-12-2013
Rename scripts using xargs/sed
Morning all

I've got loads of scripts but the names are too long! I've stuck the list in a flat file (names) and I'm trying to read that in line by line and create the new names (in to directory new) from the list. It looks like this:

Code:
 xargs -n1 -I{} <names cat {} | sed 's/scr99000001/scr991/g' >new

I can't get it to write the new files out seperately. It just plows them all into one file.

Any help much appreciated

PS - I also suspect if it does work it will just replace 99000001 with 99100001 !
Last edited by joeyg; 02-12-2013 at 07:39 AM.. Reason: Please wrap commands and data within CodeTags
 

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