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Top Forums Shell Programming and Scripting Taking part of one file name and putting it into a another file name Post 302808325 by jclanc8 on Thursday 16th of May 2013 12:35:01 PM
Old 05-16-2013
This solution is great, but I think I might not have explained it correctly. i don't need the entire file name copied over, but just a portion. In my original example, there is a node in the file name that is a date, I just need the take that date and plug it into the new file name.

I will use part of your example, but modify it slightly.
Code:
ls sample*.*
sample.20100101.txt  sample1.20110101.txt 
sample10 20120101.txt  sample2.20130101.txt

My output needs to be:
Code:
example.20100101.txt
example.20110101.txt
example.20120101.txt
example.20130101.txt

I am not sure how to get to/extract/cut out that date and how to put it in the new file name.

Thanks.
Last edited by Franklin52; 05-17-2013 at 03:21 AM.. Reason: Code tags
 

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suspend

suspend(1)                                                         User Commands                                                        suspend(1)

NAME

       suspend - shell built-in function to halt the current shell

SYNOPSIS

   sh
       suspend

   csh
       suspend

   ksh
       suspend

DESCRIPTION

   sh
       Stops the execution of the current shell (but not if it is the login shell).

   csh
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