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Top Forums Shell Programming and Scripting How to rename multiple file names? Post 302943219 by Corona688 on Wednesday 6th of May 2015 11:10:49 AM
Old 05-06-2015
Quote:
Originally Posted by ibrar Ahmad
Store all file name in one temporary file
ls *filename*.doc > Temp.tmp

Now use the loop to remove value line by line

For Line in $(cat Temp.tmp);
do mv Line "yourSting".line;
done

This will give a good idea on how to do it
This is bad advice. That is a useless use of cat and a useless use of ls * and a useless use of backticks, not to mention a dangerous use of backticks! Also, a pointless use of temporary file. I often see two or three of these habits, but to see all five of them simultaneously is interesting. Remember that ls doesn't expand *, the shell does, so you can feed it straight into for.

A simpler and safer version is
Code:
for FILE in *filename*.doc
do
        echo mv "$FILE" some-destination-string
done

Remove the echo once you've gotten some-destination-string as exactly what you want it to be.

Rudic, yours is better, but there's no point using a pipe there -- too many arguments for for would also be too many arguments for ls, it doesn't help you.
 

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NAME
URI::URL - Uniform Resource Locators SYNOPSIS
$u1 = URI::URL->new($str, $base); $u2 = $u1->abs; DESCRIPTION
This module is provided for backwards compatibility with modules that depend on the interface provided by the "URI::URL" class that used to be distributed with the libwww-perl library. The following differences exist compared to the "URI" class interface: o The URI::URL module exports the url() function as an alternate constructor interface. o The constructor takes an optional $base argument. The "URI::URL" class is a subclass of "URI::WithBase". o The URI::URL->newlocal class method is the same as URI::file->new_abs. o URI::URL::strict(1) o $url->print_on method o $url->crack method o $url->full_path: same as ($uri->abs_path || "/") o $url->netloc: same as $uri->authority o $url->epath, $url->equery: same as $uri->path, $uri->query o $url->path and $url->query pass unescaped strings. o $url->path_components: same as $uri->path_segments (if you don't consider path segment parameters) o $url->params and $url->eparams methods o $url->base method. See URI::WithBase. o $url->abs and $url->rel have an optional $base argument. See URI::WithBase. o $url->frag: same as $uri->fragment o $url->keywords: same as $uri->query_keywords o $url->localpath and friends map to $uri->file. o $url->address and $url->encoded822addr: same as $uri->to for mailto URI o $url->groupart method for news URI o $url->article: same as $uri->message SEE ALSO
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