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Top Forums Shell Programming and Scripting Problem renaming files on Solaris 10 server Post 302972269 by BRH on Tuesday 3rd of May 2016 03:30:03 PM
Old 05-03-2016
Thanks Don, your solution is perfect!

The log files are pure unix. I'm familiar with the Linux grep '-A and -B' to find the lines leading and trailing the context of the matching lines. As far as I know the Solaris grep does not have that function, so I used ggrep.

Regards,
Bjoern

---------- Post updated at 01:44 PM ---------- Previous update was at 01:03 PM ----------

Ugh! Do you know VBscript? I'm attempting to run this renaming command from a VBscript in SecureCRT and get a compilation error:

Code:
Microsoft VBScript error
Error: Invalid character

---------- Post updated at 02:30 PM ---------- Previous update was at 01:44 PM ----------

Quote:
Originally Posted by BRH
Thanks Don, your solution is perfect!

The log files are pure unix. I'm familiar with the Linux grep '-A and -B' to find the lines leading and trailing the context of the matching lines. As far as I know the Solaris grep does not have that function, so I used ggrep.

Regards,
Bjoern

---------- Post updated at 01:44 PM ---------- Previous update was at 01:03 PM ----------

Ugh! Do you know VBscript? I'm attempting to run this renaming command from a VBscript in SecureCRT and get a compilation error:

Code:
Microsoft VBScript error
Error: Invalid character

No worries, had to remove all the double quotes, it works just fine now.

Thanks again Don.

Bjoern
 

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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)
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