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Top Forums Shell Programming and Scripting Renaming file in batch Post 302929655 by RavinderSingh13 on Wednesday 24th of December 2014 01:41:51 AM
Old 12-24-2014
Quote:
Originally Posted by mfaizan40
thanks for your reply. i edit the post with the exact scenario. can you please check and help me.

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i edit the post with the exact scenario.can you plz check.
Hello mfaizan40,

Kindly use code tags for commands and codes which you are using your posts as per forum rules. Following may help you in same.
I have created same name test files as follows.
Code:
-rw-r--r-- 1 Singh01 Singh01    0 Dec 24 01:13 bep01.smsc.191214210500-00000.cdr
-rw-r--r-- 1 Singh01 Singh01    0 Dec 24 01:13 bep01.smsc.191214211000-00000.cdr
-rw-r--r-- 1 Singh01 Singh01    0 Dec 24 01:13 bep01.smsc.191214212000-00000.cdr
-rw-r--r-- 1 Singh01 Singh01    0 Dec 24 01:13 bep01.smsc.191214211500-00000.cdr
-rw-r--r-- 1 Singh01 Singh01    0 Dec 24 01:13 bep01.smsc.191214212500-00000.cdr
-rw-r--r-- 1 Singh01 Singh01    0 Dec 24 01:13 bep01.smsc.191214213000-00000.cdr
-rw-r--r-- 1 Singh01 Singh01    0 Dec 24 01:13 bep01.smsc.191214214000-00000.cdr
-rw-r--r-- 1 Singh01 Singh01    0 Dec 24 01:13 bep01.smsc.191214213500-00000.cdr
-rw-r--r-- 1 Singh01 Singh01    0 Dec 24 01:13 bep01.smsc.191214214500-00000.cdr
-rw-r--r-- 1 Singh01 Singh01    0 Dec 24 01:13 bep01.smsc.191214215500-00000.cdr
-rw-r--r-- 1 Singh01 Singh01    0 Dec 24 01:13 bep01.smsc.191214215000-00000.cdr
-rw-r--r-- 1 Singh01 Singh01    0 Dec 24 01:13 bep01.smsc.191214220000-00000.cdr
-rw-r--r-- 1 Singh01 Singh01    0 Dec 24 01:13 bep01.smsc.191214220500-00000.cdr

Then following script may help in same.

Code:
cat move_files.ksh
default=92311
for j in "bep01.smsc.*"
do
        A=$j
done
for i in $A
do
        value=`echo $i | awk '{gsub(/\-.*/,X,$0);print}'`
        new_value=$value"-"$default"".cdr"
        mv $i $new_value
        echo file $i " has been renamed to " $value"-"$default".cdr"
        let "default = default + 1"
done

Output will be as follows after running the script.
Code:
./move_files.ksh
file bep01.smsc.191214210500-00000.cdr  has been renamed to  bep01.smsc.191214210500-92311.cdr
file bep01.smsc.191214211000-00000.cdr  has been renamed to  bep01.smsc.191214211000-92312.cdr
file bep01.smsc.191214211500-00000.cdr  has been renamed to  bep01.smsc.191214211500-92313.cdr
file bep01.smsc.191214212000-00000.cdr  has been renamed to  bep01.smsc.191214212000-92314.cdr
file bep01.smsc.191214212500-00000.cdr  has been renamed to  bep01.smsc.191214212500-92315.cdr
file bep01.smsc.191214213000-00000.cdr  has been renamed to  bep01.smsc.191214213000-92316.cdr
file bep01.smsc.191214213500-00000.cdr  has been renamed to  bep01.smsc.191214213500-92317.cdr
file bep01.smsc.191214214000-00000.cdr  has been renamed to  bep01.smsc.191214214000-92318.cdr
file bep01.smsc.191214214500-00000.cdr  has been renamed to  bep01.smsc.191214214500-92319.cdr
file bep01.smsc.191214215000-00000.cdr  has been renamed to  bep01.smsc.191214215000-92320.cdr
file bep01.smsc.191214215500-00000.cdr  has been renamed to  bep01.smsc.191214215500-92321.cdr
file bep01.smsc.191214220000-00000.cdr  has been renamed to  bep01.smsc.191214220000-92322.cdr
file bep01.smsc.191214220500-00000.cdr  has been renamed to  bep01.smsc.191214220500-92323.cdr

Kindly let me know if this helps.

Thanks,
R. Singh
Last edited by RavinderSingh13; 12-24-2014 at 02:56 AM.. Reason: Added a comment
 

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