I'm running the following command to find files with a specific name and rename them, but the command prompt returns a short 10 seconds after executing and doesn't find or rename anything.
What am I doing wrong here?
I should mention there are A LOT of files in the directories.
Is there a command I can use to rename all directories with a certain name to a new name. For instance from my root directory I want to change all folders named '123' to '321' that are in the root directory or any subdirectory.
Thanks in advance! (6 Replies)
Using a bash script, I need to find all files in a folder "except" the newest file. Then I need to insert the contents of one text file into all the files found. This text needs to be placed at the beginning of each file and needs a blank line between it and the current contents of the file. Then I... (5 Replies)
Hi,
I was wondering if there is a way to find a particular file and then give it as an input to a program and then dump it into another file.
Something like this:
find ./ -name '*.txt' -exec ~/processText {} > mod.<current_file> \;
I've been trying all sorts of weird things but not... (2 Replies)
HI
I have a requirement to find the last updated files from a directory whcih has subdirectories and inside them we have files with .txt,.doc,.xls .. extensions. i have to find those files which were updated in the last 1hr and rename the files with respective <sub-directory>_<filename> and copy... (3 Replies)
In response to a closed thread for degraff63 at
https://www.unix.com/shell-programming-scripting/108882-using-mv-find-exec.html
the following command might do it as some shells spit it without the "exec bash -c " part:
Find . -name "*.model" -exec bash -c "mv {} \`echo {} | sed -e 's//_/g'\`"... (0 Replies)
I need help finding a file through terminal and then renaming it automatically.
Here is what I have so far to find the file:
cd /User/Applications
find . */SourceM.app/banner.png | while read line; do mv "$line" banner-.png; done
I want the script to rename the file "banner.png" to... (6 Replies)
Hello
Im trying to make a script in bash shell programming to find subdirectories with the same name into the same directory and rename one of them!!
Could you please help me?
Thanks in advance (1 Reply)
Hi all,
what i'm trying to configure its to the following,
find all files older then 1 min,gzip them ,rename/move with date and extension .gz (example tes.log_2012-07-26.gz) and trying to move them to another folder (gzipped),the command i'm typing its this,
find /home/charli/Desktop/test/ -type... (4 Replies)
hi,
Need your help.
I need to write a script for below..
i have two files in directory /home/abc as below:
Watch_20140203_abc.dat
Watchnow_20140203_abc.dat
I have to copy this file from
/home/abc to /home01/home02
after that i have to rename the date part in above two files... (1 Reply)
Can someone help me with this script.
I have a bunch of files like this:
"2209OS_02_Code" "2209OS_03_Code" "2209OS_04_Code" "2209OS_05_Code" "2209OS_06_Code" "2209OS_07_Code" "2209OS_08_Code" "2209OS_09_Code" "2209OS_10_Code" "2209OS_10_video"
and I want to rename them to be like this:
... (2 Replies)
Discussion started by: siegfried
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LEARN ABOUT OPENSOLARIS
gvfs-rename
gvfs-rename(1) User Commands gvfs-rename(1)NAME
gvfs-rename - change the name of a file or directory using the VFS system
SYNOPSIS
gvfs-rename source-URI new-name
DESCRIPTION
gvfs-rename changes the name of a file or directory, using the virtual file system.
OPERANDS
The following operands are supported:
source-URI Specifies the source file location in standard URI format.
new-name Specifies the new name for file or directory.
EXAMPLES
Example 1: Rename a Local HTML File
example%
gvfs-rename file:///home/user/index.html file:///home/user/index.html.old
ENVIRONMENT VARIABLES
See environ(5) for descriptions of the following environment variables: NLSPATH.
EXIT STATUS
The exit value 0 is returned regardless of success or failure.
FILES
The following files are used by this application:
/usr/bin/gvfs-rename Executable to rename a file using the GVFS library
ATTRIBUTES
See attributes(5) for descriptions of the following attributes:
+-----------------------------+-----------------------------+
| ATTRIBUTE TYPE | ATTRIBUTE VALUE |
+-----------------------------+-----------------------------+
|Availability |SUNWgnome-gvfs |
+-----------------------------+-----------------------------+
|Interface stability |Volatile |
+-----------------------------+-----------------------------+
SEE ALSO gvfs-cat(1), gvfs-copy(1), gvfs-move(1), gvfs-info(1), gvfs-less(1), gvfs-ls(1), gvfs-mkdir(1)gvfs-monitor-dir(1), gvfs-monitor-file(1),
gvfs-mount(1), gvfs-copy(1), gvfs-open(1), gvfs-rm(1), gvfs-save(1), gvfs-trash(1), gvfs-tree(1), attributes(5), environ(5)NOTES
Written by Alvaro Lopez Ortega, Sun Microsystems Inc., 2008.
SunOS 5.11 30 May 2008 gvfs-rename(1)