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Top Forums UNIX for Dummies Questions & Answers Renaming Multiple Files by removing characters Post 302914414 by pchegoor on Monday 25th of August 2014 06:54:28 PM
Old 08-25-2014
Renaming Multiple Files by removing characters
Hi

I would like to rename Multiple files in a Unix Directory using Ksh Command.

Eg ATT8-2011-10-01 00:00:00-MSA-IMM-SINGLE_AND_FAMILY_COVERAGE-DED-$2000-X114817.PDF

needs to be renamed as

ATT8-2011-10-01-MSA-IMM-SINGLE_AND_FAMILY_COVERAGE-DED-$2000-X114817.PDF

Basically the time portion which is always 00:00:00 needs to be stripped off and the space between the date and the next hyphen symbol (-) needs to be compressed.

Any ideas as to how to this ? Assuming they are about 3000 files in the directory.
Last edited by Don Cragun; 08-25-2014 at 10:59 PM.. Reason: Add ICODE tags.
 

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NAME

       Image::ExifTool::PDF - Read PDF meta information

SYNOPSIS

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DESCRIPTION

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REFERENCES

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