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
People tell me it works for them but for me it renames the complete file to - instead of replacing the *. Any help would be much appreciated.
Last edited by Neo; 01-08-2014 at 03:42 PM..
Reason: code tags please
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?
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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)
:wall:
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)
Hi, I have the following problem:
I have a list of files:
1.txt
2.txt
3.txt
4.txt
Then I have a list of variable names inside variable.txt:
A
B
C
D
I'd like to rename 1.txt, 2.txt etc using the variables from variable.txt (2 Replies)
OK So I Recently Bought A whatbox Seed-box Act!!:cool:
I am connected to whatbox via SSH!!!
Now i have downloaded a movie and renamed it to 2yify.mp4 (800MB):o
When I TYPE the command to split it which is:)
split -b 400m 2yify.mp4
It gets renamed into two parts with different names... (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
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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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LEARN ABOUT DEBIAN
mcpmv
MRENAME(1) General Commands Manual MRENAME(1)NAME
mrename - program to rename files
SYNOPSIS
mrename 'pattern' prefix [option]
DESCRIPTION
This manual page documents briefly the mrename command. This manual page was written for the Debian GNU/Linux distribution because the
original program does not have a manual page.
mrename is a tool for easy and automatic renaming of many files. The 'pattern' is the pattern to search files to rename (quoted to avoid
that bash resolve it), and prefix is the prefix that will be added to the name of each file. The two alternative options for copying or
moving files in the new name are explained below. All parameters are needed, and you have to stay and launch the script in the same direc-
tory of the files to be renamed. The program should be able to write in this directory.
OPTIONS
There are only the following three options.
-c The option -c will copy each file with the new filename.
-m The option -m will move each file in the new filename.
-h Display help.
EXAMPLE
If you have a directory with two jpeg images prof.jpg and forp.jpg and you want to add them a prefix like item0, item1 etc.. (that is
item0prof.jpg, item1forp.jpg etc..) do this:
cd /path/to/the/images
mrename '*.jpg' item -c
to copy each matching file into another with the new name
mrename '*.jpg' item -m
to rename each file without keeping a copy with the previous name
Word-Wide-Web:
http://alfalinux.sourceforge.net/mrename.php3
AUTHOR :
Giancarlo -rofus- Erra
e-mail: rofus@mindless.com
This manual page was written by Dr. Guenter Bechly <gbechly@debian.org>, for the Debian GNU/Linux system (but may be used by others). It is
distributed under the GPL just like mrename itself.
October 22, 2000 MRENAME(1)