I have a list of files:
Then I have a list of variable names inside variable.txt:
I'd like to rename 1.txt, 2.txt etc using the variables from variable.txt
I've tried using this, but it doesn't work
When doing this, I get a list of files
Something is going wrong with the loop and can't work out why it's doing this. I'm trying to learn scripting/loops and any help would be appreciated. Many thanks
I know this is probably a question for the newbie forum, where it is also posted, but I thought maybe some of you pros might like to help me out anyway. Here is my problem:
I have to rename a batch of files that look like:
2001_0001.asc
2001_0002.asc
.
2001_0548.asc
2002_0184.asc
.
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Hi,
I need to rename all the .txt files present in current directory to .dat files respectively in UNIX.
for example:
$ ls
aaa.txt bbb.txt ccc.txt
I need to change them to
$ ls
aaa.dat bbb.dat ccc.dat
Is there any UNIX command to do this in one go?
... (3 Replies)
I am trying to rename multiple files from lower case to upper case, but then I need to change the word SHIP to Ship and CSV to csv. This is a sample of the input file name input_file_ship_1234_20110106.csv I need this to look like this INPUT_FILE_Ship_1234_20110106.csv this is the result when I... (3 Replies)
Hi All
I have a folder that contains hundreds of file with a names
3.msa
4.msa
21.msa
6.msa
345.msa
456.msa
98.msa
...
...
...
I need rename each of this file by adding "core_" in the begiining of each file such as
core_3.msa
core_4.msa
core_21.msa (4 Replies)
Hello mates,
I am quite new to script programming and I am facing an uphill task to rename files in one folder. I have gone through similar posts but most of them deal with renaming files by changing the file extensions.
Problem : I have a folder which contains files like... (5 Replies)
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Hello there,
basically in my program where im stuck at is when it comes to rename the files in a loop.
- the program counts the number of files w a given name (works!)
- and then if the number of files is greater or equal to the MAX_VERSIONS (numbers of files allowed w the... (1 Reply)
I have about 1000 files containing the character * in the name. I need to find these files and replace the * with a -. I am working with HP UX v11. I am using the following command
find . -type f -name '*\**' -exec bash -c 'f="$1"; mv "$f" "${f//\*/-}"' - '{}' \
People tell me it works for... (4 Replies)
Hi,
In sftp script to get files, I have to rename all the files which I am picking. Rename command does not work here. Is there any way to do this?
I am using #!/bin/ksh
For eg: sftp user@host <<EOF
cd /path
get *.txt
rename *.txt *.txt.done
... (7 Replies)
Good day all.
I'm trying to rename some files in my home directory with some bizarre results. Basically I need to change the IP address in the filename to the hostname which I ggrep from within the file:
-rw-r--r-- 1 bh694n nrc 5095 May 2 20:03 alarms_999.189.161.146.log... (2 Replies)
Discussion started by: BRH
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xclip-copyfile
XCLIP-COPYFILE(1) General Commands Manual XCLIP-COPYFILE(1)NAME
xclip-copyfile, xclip-cutfile, xclip-pastefile - copy and move files via the X clipboard
SYNOPSIS
xclip-copyfile [-p] FILES...
xclip-cutfile [-p] FILES...
xclip-pastefile
DESCRIPTION
xclip-copyfile copies files into the X clipboard, recursing into directories.
xclip-cutfile copies the files, but also deletes them afterwards.
-p preserve path formation
xclip-pastefile pastes the files out of the clipboard
EXAMPLES
Copying a file to a remote host
[maggie.lkpg.cendio.se ~]$ echo "A file created on ${HOSTNAME}" > file1
[maggie.lkpg.cendio.se ~]$ xclip-copyfile file1
[sofie.homeip.net ~/doc]$ xclip-pastefile
file1
[sofie.homeip.net ~/doc]$ cat file1
A file created on maggie.lkpg.cendio.se
Copying an entire tree structure
[sofie.homeip.net ~]$ xclip-copyfile doc
[maggie.lkpg.cendio.se ~/tmp]$ xclip-pastefile
doc/
doc/letter-mom-april.txt
doc/file1
doc/letter-dad-march.txt
Copying files with preserved path information
[maggie.lkpg.cendio.se ~]$ xclip-copyfile -p /etc/sysconfig/grub
tar: Removing leading `/' from member names
[sofie.homeip.net ~/tmp]$ xclip-pastefile
etc/sysconfig/grub
[sofie.homeip.net ~/tmp]$ ls etc/sysconfig/grub
etc/sysconfig/grub
Moving files
[sofie.homeip.net ~]$ ls letter-brother-may.txt
letter-brother-may.txt
[sofie.homeip.net ~]$ xclip-cutfile letter-brother-may.txt
[sofie.homeip.net ~]$ ls letter-brother-may.txt
ls: cannot access letter-brother-may.txt: No such file or directory
[sofie.homeip.net ~]$ cd doc
[sofie.homeip.net ~/doc]$ xclip-pastefile
letter-brother-may.txt
AUTHORS
This manual page was written by Maximilian Gass <mxey@cloudconnected.org> for the Debian project. It may be used for everything else, of
course.
XCLIP-COPYFILE(1)