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Top Forums Shell Programming and Scripting Replacing punctuation marks with the help of sed Post 302914616 by ambijat on Wednesday 27th of August 2014 02:27:23 AM
Old 08-27-2014
Code:
#!/bin/bash


a=(*.pdf)


for (( i =0; i < ${#a[i]}; i++ ))
do
echo ${a[i]} | sed 's/[[:punct:]]/_/g' | sed -e 's/_.pdf/.pdf/g'

done

Kindly, see I have tried to update it.

---------- Post updated at 11:50 AM ---------- Previous update was at 11:47 AM ----------

Quote:
Originally Posted by ambijat
Code:
#!/bin/bash


a=(*.pdf)


for (( i =0; i < ${#a[i]}; i++ ))
do
echo ${a[i]} | sed 's/[[:punct:]]/_/g' | sed -e 's/_.pdf/.pdf/g'

done

Kindly, see I have tried to update it.
Oh Thanks folks it does the trick my only mistake was to use _.pdf instead of _pdf thanks!

But the task is now how to direct the output to change the filename, can you suggest.

---------- Post updated at 11:57 AM ---------- Previous update was at 11:50 AM ----------

Code:
#!/bin/bash


a=(*.pdf)


for (( i =0; i < ${#a[i]}; i++ ))
do

b=`echo ${a[i]} | sed 's/[[:punct:]]/_/g' | sed -e 's/_pdf/.pdf/g'`

mv ${a[i]} $b
done

This is my final version and it works can you comment on it to make it better. once again thanks
rgs!
 

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