With for the shell must store the 1000 pathnames in a list.
And a space-separated list has a problem with pathnames that have spaces.
Better use while!
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
.
.... (0 Replies)
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?
... (3 Replies)
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
... (7 Replies)
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
prename
RENAME(1) Perl Programmers Reference Guide RENAME(1)NAME
rename - renames multiple files
SYNOPSIS
rename [ -v ] [ -n ] [ -f ] perlexpr [ files ]
DESCRIPTION
"rename" renames the filenames supplied according to the rule specified as the first argument. The perlexpr argument is a Perl expression
which is expected to modify the $_ string in Perl for at least some of the filenames specified. If a given filename is not modified by the
expression, it will not be renamed. If no filenames are given on the command line, filenames will be read via standard input.
For example, to rename all files matching "*.bak" to strip the extension, you might say
rename 's/.bak$//' *.bak
To translate uppercase names to lower, you'd use
rename 'y/A-Z/a-z/' *
OPTIONS -v, --verbose
Verbose: print names of files successfully renamed.
-n, --no-act
No Action: show what files would have been renamed.
-f, --force
Force: overwrite existing files.
ENVIRONMENT
No environment variables are used.
AUTHOR
Larry Wall
SEE ALSO mv(1), perl(1)DIAGNOSTICS
If you give an invalid Perl expression you'll get a syntax error.
BUGS
The original "rename" did not check for the existence of target filenames, so had to be used with care. I hope I've fixed that (Robin
Barker).
perl v5.14.2 2014-09-26 RENAME(1)