You're right. I lose the files. How can I fix?
Thank you
Unless you had backups of your files before you destroyed some of them, they are gone. To avoid the problem in the future, change the script suggested by rdrtx1 to something more like:
This User Gave Thanks to Don Cragun For This Post:
Hi All !!!
Is there any solution to get rid of / " * in old files names WITH A SCRIPT
(About 100 Gb of old files)
I know it can be done i just dont know how !
Hope that some one can help
Best R.
Yovel (1 Reply)
Have files of the sort 3p1522015.dgn and need to have them renamed to 152201.dgn. Essentially dropping the 1st 2 characters and the last. I'm relatively new to UNIX and uncertain of where to start. I hope this provides enough detail.
Thanks (5 Replies)
Let me preface this by stating I have absolutely no idea what I'm doing in this arena, but I'm in need of a little help here.
I need to take filenames like this: amwed_0402c-slug~1-cp.jpg
And reduce them to slug~1.jpg
That is, I need to remove the first 12 and last 3 characters. The... (3 Replies)
Hi, i need a bit of help writting a tcsh script which renames all ascii text files in the current directory by adding a number to their names before the extension
so for example, a directory containing the files
Hello.txt
Hello.t
Hello
should have the following changes,
Hello.txt... (2 Replies)
I wrote a simple script that converts my windows text files to unix, so that I can compare them to different unix files purposes of my project.
win2unix file1.txt file1Win.txt
win2unix file2.txt file2Win.txt
etc
Is there a way to simplify this to:
<while .txt in... (5 Replies)
Hello,
I have this problem.
In a directory I have 4 csv files with this format:
PHOENIX_KM_INTERAZIONI_YYYYMMDD.csv
PHOENIX_KM_TRIPLETTE_YYYYMMDD.csv
NEWCAB_KM_INTERAZIONI_YYYYMMDD.csv
NEWCAB_KM_INTERAZIONI_YYYY_MM_DD.csv
YYYYMMDD: format CURRENT date
I wont rename all files in... (4 Replies)
I have the following directories in my home directory,
my scripts
dbmig es
ms_done
my-home
I want my output to look like the following
MyScripts
DbmigEs
MsDone
MyHome
Basically, I want to get rid of spaces,special characters and convert the first letter of each word to uppercase and... (1 Reply)
Hi All,
I want to write a script to rename the file in to the incremental order
for example
Original file
filename=/nfs/n1/file1.img
filename=/nfs/n1/file1.img
filename=/nfs/n1/file1.img
filename=/nfs/n1/file1.img
filename=/nfs/n1/file1.img
I want output shpuld be... (4 Replies)
hi there,
i'm using OS X.
i have a bunch of mp3 files strewn across a directory tree that i'd like to rename.
specifically i'd like to remove any track numbers and leading non-alphabetic characters from the filenames like this:
01 - song1.mp3
2 song2.mp3
become:
song1.mp3... (6 Replies)
Hi all,
I have a many folders with zipped files in them. The zipped files are txt files from different folders. The txt files have the same names. If i try to
find . -type f -name "*.zip" -exec cp -R {} /myhome/ZIP \; it fails since the ZIP files from different folders have the same names and... (2 Replies)
Discussion started by: pmkenya
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LEARN ABOUT PLAN9
receive
RECEIVE(1) General Commands Manual RECEIVE(1)NAME
receive - receive files from the sendfile spool
SYNOPSIS
receive [ -d ] [ -r ] [ -k ] [ -P ] [ -S ] [ -Z spool ] [ -q ] [ -ffrom ] file [...]
receive -n [ -d ] [ -r ] [ -k ] [ -P ] [ -S ] [ -Z spool ] [ -q ] file-number [...]
receive [ -s ] [ -l ] [ -L ] [ -R ] [ -ffrom ]
receive -b user[@host] [ -k ] [ -f"from" ] file [...]
receive -b user[@host] [ -k ] [ -f"from" ] -n file-number [...]
receive -b user[@host] [ -k ] -a
DESCRIPTION
receive files from the sendfile spool which has been sent to you.
If there is already a file with the same name you will be prompted for overwriting or renaming.
Allowed wildcards in file names are: * ? [abc] [^abc]
CAUTION: you have to put wildcards and other special characters in '' quotes to hide them for interpretation by your shell.
OPTIONS -n receive file number(s)
-d delete instead of receive
-a receive (or delete or bounce) all files
-r rename before receiving
-k keep files in spool after receiving
-P pipe files to stdout
-S receive only pgp-signed files
-s list files in short format
-l list files
-L list files and look inside archives, too
-R renumber files in spool
-b bounce (forward) files to another recipient
-q quiet mode: no questions asked
-fuser all actions refer only to files from this user
-Z spool
specify an alternate spool directory
EXAMPLES
receive -L
list all files in long format.
receive 'blubb*'
receive all files starting with string "blubb".
receive -daf microsoft.com
delete all files from microsoft.com sites.
receive -b framstag@bofh '*.jpg'
bounce all *.jpg-files to framstag@bofh.
FILES
/var/spool/sendfile The sendfile spool directory.
/var/spool/sendfile/$USER/log
A log of the last transfers.
/etc/sendfile.deny Users which are not allowed to receive files or messages (set by root).
SEE ALSO sendfile(1).
AUTHOR
Ulli Horlacher - framstag@rus.uni-stuttgart.de
3rd Berkeley DistributionRECEIVE(1)