Depending on the shell that you are running, this will speed up the processing of A LOT of files:
Are you sure that 20 chars will contain the relevant part of the files?
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)
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LEARN ABOUT CENTOS
rename
RENAME(1) User Commands RENAME(1)NAME
rename - rename files
SYNOPSIS
rename [options] expression replacement file...
DESCRIPTION
rename will rename the specified files by replacing the first occurrence of expression in their name by replacement.
OPTIONS -v, --verbose
Give visual feedback which files where renamed, if any.
-V, --version
Display version information and exit.
-s, --symlink
Peform rename on symlink target
-h, --help
Display help text and exit.
EXAMPLES
Given the files foo1, ..., foo9, foo10, ..., foo278, the commands
rename foo foo0 foo?
rename foo foo0 foo??
will turn them into foo001, ..., foo009, foo010, ..., foo278. And
rename .htm .html *.htm
will fix the extension of your html files.
WARNING
The renaming has no safeguards. If the user has permission to rewrite file names, the command will perform the action without any ques-
tions. For example, the result can be quite drastic when the command is run as root in the /lib directory. Always make a backup before
running the command, unless you truly know what you are doing.
SEE ALSO mmv(1), mv(1)AVAILABILITY
The rename command is part of the util-linux package and is available from ftp://ftp.kernel.org/pub/linux/utils/util-linux/.
util-linux June 2011 RENAME(1)