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Top Forums Shell Programming and Scripting Copying and renaming files Post 302894815 by Vivekit82 on Thursday 27th of March 2014 12:01:14 PM
Old 03-27-2014
Copying and renaming files
hi,

Code:
 
source directory as /home/home01
target directort as /home/home02

I have below files in source directory:
Code:
 
FrontOf_history.dat
FrontOf_history1.dat

In target directory have many files as:
Code:
 
Kront_2014.dat
Kront_2015.dat
Kront_2016.dat

Now i want to copy the two files present in source_dir to target_dir
after copying the two files i want to rename these two files as:
Code:
 
FrontOf_history_$date.dat
FrontOf_history1_$date.dat

where $date is a input parameter string

I have written below script for that:

Code:
 
date=`awk 'NR>5; END{print}' /home/home03/date.dat`
source_dir="/home/home01"
target_dir="/home/home02"
cd $source_dir
ls FrontOf_*.dat >>/tmp/abc.dat
file1=`grep "FrontOf*" /tmp/abc.dat
cp ${source_dir}/${file1} ${target_dir}
ls ${target_dir} | while read file1
do
        pre=`echo ${file1} | cut -d"_" -f1`
        post=`echo ${file1} | cut -d"_" -f3-4`
        new_name1="${pre}_${date}_${post}"
        mv $target_dir/$file1 $target_dir/$new_name1
done

Problem with this code is that it is renaming other files also that in present in target_dir.I just want to rename the two files that I copied from source to target directory.
Last edited by Vivekit82; 03-27-2014 at 01:17 PM..
 

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qmail-pw2u(8)						      System Manager's Manual						     qmail-pw2u(8)

NAME

       qmail-pw2u - build address assignments from a passwd file

SYNOPSIS

       qmail-pw2u [ -/ohHuUC ] [ -cchar ]

DESCRIPTION

       qmail-pw2u reads a V7-format passwd file from standard input and prints a qmail-users-format assignment file.

       A V7-format passwd file is a series of lines.  Each line has the format

	  user:password:uid:gid:gecos:home:shell

       where  user  is an account name, uid and gid are the user id and group id of that account, and home is the account's home directory.  pass-
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RULES

       By default, qmail-pw2u follows the same rules as qmail-getpw.  It skips user if (1) uid is zero, (2) home does not exist, (3) user does not
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       include
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       exclude
	      Ignored users, one per line.  If exclude exists, and user is listed in exclude, user is ignored.

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OPTIONS

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