Hi All,
I've recently run a script that inserts the filename into all files of my active directory. Now I want to move the filename string and have it replace text a few lines down.
In other words, here's what I'm trying to do. Here is a file called 'goodtimes':
"
goodtimes
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i have several thousand files and in subdirs that are named
file.46634.txt
budget.75346.pdf
etc
i want to remove the number but retain the extension.
it is always a 5 digit.
thanks. (6 Replies)
Hi Guys,
I'm sure that there is simple solution .. I googled .. it and nothing is coming up ... ( I Tried it as hex 0xE2 no luck )
sed -e 's/•/X/g' data.txt > data1.txt
I'm trying to replace bullet with X
Actually VI editor shows this sign: ¥
But it doesn't work - I'm sure that SED... (7 Replies)
Could anyone very kindly help me a simple way to perform the - perhaps - very trivial task of writing the name of a file as first line of that file which is in txt format?
And would be possible to do this recursively for some thousands files in the XY directory?
And, again, add to the simple... (3 Replies)
Hi All,
I have a set of files named S5_SK1.chr01 S5_SK1.chr02 S5_SK1.chr03 ..... and the first line of these files is >SK1.chr01 >SK1.chr02 >SK1.chr03 ..... Can anyone suggest how I can change the first line of all these files with the filename itself? So my expected output for the first lines of... (14 Replies)
Hi;
In following code
find LOG_DIR -type f | while read filename; do echo $filename; done
I want to precede each white space encountered in filename with \ so that when i use $filename for running some commands in do...done,it wont give me an error.
will appreciate ur help in this.... (1 Reply)
I would like help adding a new column to a large txt file (~10MB) that contains the filename. I have searched other posts but have not found an adequate solution.
I need this extra column so I can concatenate >100 files and perform awk searches on this large file.
My current txt file look... (4 Replies)
Hi guys!
I have quite a lot of files like
all_10001_ct1212307460308.alf*
and I want to get rid of the first number for all at once like:
all_ct1212307460308.alf*
How can I do this in the shell? (12 Replies)
I'm new to this forum and also to UNIX scripting.
I need a command to extract the filename from the path and write to .txt file.
Thanks in advance for your guidance. (23 Replies)