Did you run each step of the pipeline? You also might want to check the manpages for sed and sftp
Generates
, which is read by sftp. After the files have been retrieved, you need to create a series of renames.
does that, but this could have been done equally as well as:
or
The two steps also prevents you from renaming a file that was not retrieved, had rename *.txt *.txt.done worked as you intended.
Last edited by derekludwig; 11-24-2014 at 07:36 AM..
Reason: typo
Greetings!
Does anyone know of a utility or a script for renaming files on a UNIX web server? I've seen several of these types of renaming utilities for Windows, but none for UNIX. I have 10,000 files that I need to rename in a several tier (deep) web site directory. I have the original... (1 Reply)
Greetings!
Does anyone know of a utility or a script for renaming files on a UNIX web server? I've seen several of these types of renaming utilities for Windows, but none for UNIX. I have 10,000 files that I need to rename in a several tier (deep) web site directory. I have the original... (2 Replies)
I need to get multiple files from a windows server to a solaris server using sftp,
I tried it but only can get one file at a time ( I'm unable to use a wild card character using sftp) hoe do i do this.
any light on this is appreciated.
Ram. (3 Replies)
Hey guys,
I'm really new to UNIX and shell scripting in general. For my internship I need to rename a bunch of files. Specifically, I need to change the first letter of each of the files to lowercase and I have to change the endings so they all basically look like "file_cone.jpg". I know I... (4 Replies)
Hi,
Am using sftp (dsa method) to transfer 20 files from one server(sftp) to another (local). After the transfer is complete the files in the sftp server has to be renamed from .txt extension to .done extension ( aa.txt to aa.done, bb.txt to bb.done and likewise...).
I tried rename command... (4 Replies)
Hi Friends,
I have a requirement to get multiple files from ftp(remote) server and once the files is copied to local machine , I need to move the files on to a different directory in ftp machine.
FTP Machine : 9.9.999.999
Source File Directory : /ftpuser
File Pattern: TMS*
Now I have... (1 Reply)
Hi,
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Hi,
I am looking for a shell script to sftp to a file server and copy all the files from a directory after the script is run.
The server name should be a user input parameter and of-course the username/password as well. Rest all should be handled by the script.
I tried with below snippet:-... (2 Replies)
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I want to rename (move) multiple files on remote server. I tried the following command to move all TXT files from my_dir directory to /new_dir. But it does not work. Any help?
#!/bin/ksh
sftp -dev3 << ABC
cd my_dir
$(for i in TXT; do echo "ls *.$i" ; rename $x /new_dir/$x;... (1 Reply)