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Top Forums Shell Programming and Scripting Rename files to match file list pattern Post 302975153 by Aia on Wednesday 8th of June 2016 08:42:33 PM
Old 06-08-2016
Quote:
Originally Posted by RudiC
Mayhap sth. along this line (untested):

Code:
while read old_id new_id
  do    (cd $old_id
         for FN in ${old_id}_hello*
           do   echo mv "$FN" "${FN/${old_id]/${new_id}}"
           done 
        )
  done < pattern.txt

Test it and remove the echo if happy with the result.
Quote:
Originally Posted by lxdorney
All posted is not working.
@Yoda can you make your script not specific to 2 folder, because we have thousand of folders.

@Rudic

when I run your script I got error message:
./test1.sh: line 4: unexpected EOF while looking for matching `"'
./test1.sh: line 8: syntax error: unexpected end of file


Thanks very much.
Substitute the highlighted `]' for a `}'

Please, remember that the ultimate goal is for you to learn how to make that change that you are asking Yoda to do for you. Instead, you could ask: Is this the way I should change your code to not be specific to 2 folders? Then, you post what you have tried!
Last edited by Aia; 06-08-2016 at 09:49 PM..
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LEARN ABOUT DEBIAN

new

NEW(1)								     [nmh-1.5]								    NEW(1)

NAME

       new - report on folders with new messages

       fnext - set current folder to next folder with new messages

       fprev - set current folder to previous folder with new messages

       unseen - scan new messages in all folders with new messages

SYNOPSIS

       new [sequences] [-mode mode] [-folders foldersfile] [-version] [-help]

       fnext is equivalent to new -mode fnext

       fprev is equivalent to new -mode fprev

       unseen is equivalent to new -mode unseen

DESCRIPTION

       New  in	its  default  mode  produces  a  one-line-per-folder  listing of all folders containing messages in the listed sequences or in the
       sequences listed in the profile entry "Unseen-Sequence".  Each line contains the folder, the number of messages in the  desired	sequences,
       and the message lists from the .mh_sequences file.  For example:

	    foo     11.* 40-50
	    bar    380.  760-772 824-828
	     total    391.

       The `*' on foo indicates that it is the current folder.	The last line shows the total number of messages in the desired sequences.

       New crawls the folder hierarchy recursively to find all folders, and prints them in lexicographic order.  Override this behavior by provid-
       ing foldersfile containing the pre-sorted list of folders new should check, one per line.

       In fnext and fprev modes, new instead changes to the next or previous matching folder, respectively.

       In unseen mode, new executes scan sequences for each matching folder.

FILES

       $HOME/.mh_profile	  The user profile

PROFILE COMPONENTS

       Path:		    To determine the user's nmh directory
       Current-Folder:	    To find the default current folder
       Unseen-Sequence:     The name of the unseen message sequence

SEE ALSO

       scan(1), mh-format(5)

HISTORY

       Based on Luke Mewburn's new (http://www.mewburn.net/luke/src/new).

MH.6.8								   11 June 2012 							    NEW(1)
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