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Top Forums UNIX for Advanced & Expert Users Script to rename file that was generated today and which starts with date Post 302814391 by bobby320 on Wednesday 29th of May 2013 11:25:12 AM
Old 05-29-2013
Thanks for your reply.

I just tried this format, but not working, please suggest here

Code:
$ ls -lrt
total 168
-rw-r----- 1 z504783 ctlab_admin 166593 May 29 10:17 20130529_4995733057260357019.xml
$
$ file =$(`find . -name `date +%Y%m%d`_*.xml`) ; mv $file renamedfeed_`date +%Y%m%d`.xml
find: missing argument to `-name'
-bash: _*.xml: command not found
=20130529: ERROR: cannot open `=20130529' (No such file or directory)
mv: missing destination file operand after `renamedfeed_20130529.xml'
Try `mv --help' for more information.
$

Last edited by radoulov; 06-03-2013 at 10:24 AM..
 

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TV_SORT(1p)						User Contributed Perl Documentation					       TV_SORT(1p)

NAME

       tv_sort - Sort XMLTV listings files by date, and add stop times.

SYNOPSIS

       tv_sort [--help] [--by-channel] [--output FILE] [FILE...]

DESCRIPTION

       Read XMLTV data and write out the same data sorted in date order.  Where stop times of programmes are missing, guess them from the start
       time of the next programme on the same channel. For the last programme of a channel, no stop time can be added.

       Tv_sort also performs some sanity checks such as making sure no two programmes on the same channel overlap.

       --output FILE write to FILE rather than standard output

       --by-channel sort first by channel id, then by date within each
		       channel.

       --duplicate-error If the input contains the same programme more than once,
			    consider this as an error. Default is to silently
			    ignore duplicate entries.

       The time sorting is by start time, then by stop time.  Without --by-channel, if start times and stop times are equal then two programmes
       are sorted by internal channel id.  With --by-channel, channel id is compared first and then times.

       You can think of tv_sort as converting XMLTV data into a canonical form, useful for diffing two files.

EXAMPLES

       At a typical Unix shell or Windows command prompt:

       tv_sort <in.xml >out.xml
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       These are different ways of saying the same thing.

AUTHOR

       Ed Avis, ed@membled.com

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