Thanks!
Do you mean the problem is with the part: for i in $( ls *$pattern* ) ?
I changed the command line to:
which worked well, but it looks strange, doesn't it?!
And it has a bug as all the file names containing "txt" will be changed. That does not match what I intended.
I am still not quite sure about the expansion for *.txt Could you please elaborate more?
also worked, how is it working by a simple escape of the dot?
Hi all -
I'm trying to rename a large number of files all at once and need some help figuring out the command line syntax to do it. I've already done quite a bit of research with the rename and mv commands, but so far haven't found a solution that seems to work for me. So:
The files exist... (10 Replies)
hi all,
given a path, for example :
/<pwd>/artist/album/
what i would like to do is to rename the album directory like that :
/<pwd>/artist/artist | album/
and i would like to do the latter for all the "artist" directories
and for all the "album" directories that belong to an artist
... (4 Replies)
Hello all, thanks for your time (and this forum, what an awesome resource for newbs like myself!)
Anyways, I've been given the task of importing content from a directory of about...7000 HTML files. They are all named appropriately and broken down by name depending on what book they belong too.... (8 Replies)
hi i have a folder full of files. some of the names are quite off because the dimensions were the same and i had to put a 'b' after the initial number so that it didnt overwrite. what i want is a script in unix to overwrite the filwe name leaving some of the title intact, e.g. below are some... (3 Replies)
Hello everyone. I am new to shell scripting and i am required to create a shell script, the purpose of which i will explain below.
I am on a solaris server btw.
Before delving into the requirements, i will give youse an overview of what is currently in place and its purpose.
... (2 Replies)
Hi all,
Wondering how this could be accomplished........
a directory contains sequentially numbered files from fw01 to fw999.
How would I insert an additional zero so that the directory lists these files in a proper manner?
(i.e. all double digit files from fw01 to fw99 would become... (3 Replies)
I have some 50+ files in the following format :
abcd_vish_running_ZEBRA_20140818.dat_08-14-2014_23:08:23
abcd_vish_running_ZEB-RA_20140818.dat_08-14-2014_23:08:35
abcd_vish_running_ZEB_RA_20140818.dat_08-14-2014_23:08:37
abcd_vish_running_RI-NG_20140818.dat_08-14-2014_23:08:42... (5 Replies)
Hi guys,
I need a script to change the file names e.g.:-
below are the mentioned files, i want t0 change the last character of the name 00000.cdr with e.g bep01.smsc.191214210500-00000.cdr to bep01.smsc.191214210500-92311.cdr next file be like bep01.smsc.191214210500-92312.cdr
# ls -ltr... (9 Replies)
I have a .ksh script that creates an sftp batch file and runs it through sftp. It works except for one thing. If I try to "put" to a different name, it doesn't use the specified remote name...it still "puts" the original local name.
I've tried both of these, and neither work...it will always... (4 Replies)
I wish to rename all files ending in .txt by removing .tex.
Currently I have
me@me-Inspiron-518:~$ ls
a.tex.txt bin b.tex.txt c.tex.txt Desktop Documents Downloads d.tex.txt Music Pictures Public Templates VideosDesired outcome
me@me-Inspiron-518:~$ ls
a.txt ... (2 Replies)
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LEARN ABOUT PHP
glob
GLOB(3) 1 GLOB(3)glob - Find pathnames matching a patternSYNOPSIS
array glob (string $pattern, [int $flags])
DESCRIPTION
The glob(3) function searches for all the pathnames matching $pattern according to the rules used by the libc glob() function, which is
similar to the rules used by common shells.
PARAMETERS
o $pattern
- The pattern. No tilde expansion or parameter substitution is done.
o $flags
- Valid flags:
o GLOB_MARK - Adds a slash to each directory returned
o GLOB_NOSORT - Return files as they appear in the directory (no sorting). When this flag is not used, the pathnames are
sorted alphabetically
o GLOB_NOCHECK - Return the search pattern if no files matching it were found
o GLOB_NOESCAPE - Backslashes do not quote metacharacters
o GLOB_BRACE - Expands {a,b,c} to match 'a', 'b', or 'c'
o GLOB_ONLYDIR - Return only directory entries which match the pattern
o GLOB_ERR - Stop on read errors (like unreadable directories), by default errors are ignored.
RETURN VALUES
Returns an array containing the matched files/directories, an empty array if no file matched or FALSE on error.
Note
On some systems it is impossible to distinguish between empty match and an error.
CHANGELOG
+--------+--------------------+
|Version | |
| | |
| | Description |
| | |
+--------+--------------------+
| 5.1.0 | |
| | |
| | |
| | GLOB_ERR was added |
| | |
+--------+--------------------+
EXAMPLES
Example #1
Convenient way how glob(3) can replace opendir(3) and friends.
<?php
foreach (glob("*.txt") as $filename) {
echo "$filename size " . filesize($filename) . "
";
}
?>
The above example will output something similar to:
funclist.txt size 44686
funcsummary.txt size 267625
quickref.txt size 137820
NOTES
Note
This function will not work on remote files as the file to be examined must be accessible via the server's filesystem.
Note
This function isn't available on some systems (e.g. old Sun OS).
Note
The GLOB_BRACE flag is not available on some non GNU systems, like Solaris.
SEE ALSO opendir(3), readdir(3), closedir(3), fnmatch(3).
PHP Documentation Group GLOB(3)