1 )Write a one liner sh script* to rename all files that start with a number less than 10, to have a zero in front. ie. 1 - abcd1.txt will be renamed to 01 - abcd1.txt.
* You may not make use of the “rename” utility and any loop constructs do not count towards the line count.
2) Write a one liner sh script to reverse the filenames back to what they were (ie. remove any leading zero).
I'm doing a short batch script to compile po files producing output binary mo files.
The compilation command is:
msgfmt -o file.mo file.po
so in order to compile I am appending .mo to the varible in a loop.
It goes something like this:
for i in `find . -name "*.po"`
do
echo... (2 Replies)
hi i have a folder full of files. some of the names are quite off because the dimensions were the same and i had to put a 'b' after the initial number so that it didnt overwrite. what i want is a script in unix to overwrite the filwe name leaving some of the title intact, e.g. below are some... (3 Replies)
I wanna back up the original version of files in a directory by appending .ORIG to them. I'm guessing I'd need CP and AWK in some form or fashion. Can someone give me a template? Thanks (3 Replies)
Dears,
I need your help!
I got a problem and found some workaround solution but I donno how to realize it.
I have a number of files (about 300 each day) and I need them to be renamed. All these files has fixed number of letters and name looks like this one:... (7 Replies)
Hey all!
Sorry for the noobish question..
I am wondering how to I copy multiple files, and rename them based on their directory at once.
So, I have files like this
/logs/server/2011-10/server-1/log/file/folder/some.log.gz
/logs/server/2011-10/server-2/log/file/folder/some.log.gz... (3 Replies)
Hi There
I am looking at writing a script that I can run from a cron job (say every month) that will copy my existing scripts to another folder, then in THAT new folder, append them all with the extension of .txt
I have the cp command down pat (cp /existing_folder /new_folder)
however I am... (6 Replies)
Hello,
I have below script, which connects to ftp server, pull a file and then it renames it after deleting previous day file. This was working before but now it is not able to rename 'Red_bill.txt' to `Red_bill.V01.txt`. If I run manually 'rename Red_bill.txt Red_bill.V01.txt', I am able to... (5 Replies)
What is wrong with this script to rename batch of similar files? For example renaming all *.txt files to *.tab .
$ for i in seq {01..10}; do touch ${i}.txt; done
$ ./rename.sh *.txt txt tab
Error:
mv: ‘01.txt’ and ‘01.txt’ are the same file.
Code is:
#!/usr/bin/bash
# renames.sh
#... (6 Replies)
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LEARN ABOUT PHP
fprintf
FPRINTF(3) 1 FPRINTF(3)fprintf - Write a formatted string to a streamSYNOPSIS
int fprintf (resource $handle, string $format, [mixed $args], [mixed $...])
DESCRIPTION
Write a string produced according to $format to the stream resource specified by $handle.
PARAMETERS
o $handle
-A file system pointer resource that is typically created using fopen(3).
o $format
- See sprintf(3) for a description of $format.
o $args
-
o $...
-
RETURN VALUES
Returns the length of the string written.
EXAMPLES
Example #1
fprintf(3): zero-padded integers
<?php
if (!($fp = fopen('date.txt', 'w'))) {
return;
}
fprintf($fp, "%04d-%02d-%02d", $year, $month, $day);
// will write the formatted ISO date to date.txt
?>
Example #2
fprintf(3): formatting currency
<?php
if (!($fp = fopen('currency.txt', 'w'))) {
return;
}
$money1 = 68.75;
$money2 = 54.35;
$money = $money1 + $money2;
// echo $money will output "123.1";
$len = fprintf($fp, '%01.2f', $money);
// will write "123.10" to currency.txt
echo "wrote $len bytes to currency.txt";
// use the return value of fprintf to determine how many bytes we wrote
?>
SEE ALSO printf(3), sprintf(3), sscanf(3), fscanf(3), vsprintf(3), number_format(3).
PHP Documentation Group FPRINTF(3)