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Top Forums Shell Programming and Scripting Inserting text in file names while copying them. Post 302824363 by Tony Keller on Thursday 20th of June 2013 06:08:50 PM
Old 06-20-2013
Linux Inserting text in file names while copying them.

I'm trying to find a Bourne shell script that will copy files from one directory using a wild card for the file name (*) and add some more characters in the middle of the file name as it is copied. As an example:

/u01/tmp-file1.xml => /u02/tmp-file1-20130620.xml
/u01/tmp-file2.xml => /u02/tmp-file2-20130620.xml
/u01/tmp-file3.xml => /u02/tmp-file3-20130620.xml
/u01/tmp-file4.xml => /u02/tmp-file4-20130620.xml

I've seen scripts where you can append characters to the end of a file or to the front of a file, but not in the middle of the file name. I was hoping for something as easy as:
Code:
cp /u01/tmp-file*.xml /u02/tmp-file*-20130620.xml

but of course no such thing exists.
 

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