1. If I have a file-yyyymmdd.dat in a directory DATA1, then how do I move this file to directory DATA2 and the file name change to file-yyyymmdd.dat.currenttime
I can manual do this
$mv fileA-yyyymmdd.dat ./DATA2/fileA-yyyymmdd.dat.`date +%Y%m%d%H%M%S`
but how do I move all of the files in... (1 Reply)
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)
I am connecting to a remote server (Unix) and doing a ftp dowmload of files. The script (VB script) works fine except for not being able to move the downloaded files on the remote server to another folder.
I need to move all files with an .asc extesnion from folder "tovecellio_edi" to folder... (1 Reply)
Variations of multiple renames seems to come up a lot but i can't find the answer to this situation.
Tidying up a directory where people rename files to .working, .bob, .attempt1 & so on.
what i am trying to do is: list the file type, & rename from ".whatever" to .fixed.
As the ".whatever" is... (5 Replies)
Hello,
I'm new in the forum and in UNIX scripting, what I need is to write a simple batch script that renames or move the files back & forth from one directory to another, and then schedule the script to run on the server when the scheduled down time is, which is on Thursdays at 8pm and during... (5 Replies)
Hi,
I need to do something easy but I can't seem to figure out how to do this.
Let's say I have 6 files in the directory below:
/ebsbeta_f/flash/EBSUATQB/onlinelog
o1_mf_6_55klt7nr_.log
o1_mf_3_55klskj4_.log
o1_mf_4_55klsrl1_.log
o1_mf_5_55klt09p_.log
o1_mf_2_55klv1ts_.log... (10 Replies)
I have a directory e2e_ms_xfer/cent01
this contains the multiple files some of which will be named below with unique date time stamps
e2e_ms_edd_nom_CCYYMMDD_HHMM.csv
What I want to do is in a loop
1) Get the oldest file
2) Rename
3) Move it up one level from e2e_ms_xfer/cent01 to... (1 Reply)
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)
I'm using cygwin32 on Windows.
DN is an environment variable pointed at my download directory.
This command works to move the single most recent file in my download directory to my current directory:
mv "`perl -e '$p = $ARGV; opendir $h, $p or die "cannot opendir $p: $!"; @f = sort { -M $a... (2 Replies)
I want to rename (move) multiple files on remote server. I tried the following command to move all TXT files from my_dir directory to /new_dir. But it does not work. Any help?
#!/bin/ksh
sftp -dev3 << ABC
cd my_dir
$(for i in TXT; do echo "ls *.$i" ; rename $x /new_dir/$x;... (1 Reply)
Discussion started by: Soham
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LEARN ABOUT BSD
mv
MV(1) General Commands Manual MV(1)NAME
mv - move or rename files
SYNOPSIS
mv [ -i ] [ -f ] [ - ] file1 file2
mv [ -i ] [ -f ] [ - ] file ... directory
DESCRIPTION
Mv moves (changes the name of) file1 to file2.
If file2 already exists, it is removed before file1 is moved. If file2 has a mode which forbids writing, mv prints the mode (see chmod(2))
and reads the standard input to obtain a line; if the line begins with y, the move takes place; if not, mv exits.
In the second form, one or more files (plain files or directories) are moved to the directory with their original file-names.
Mv refuses to move a file onto itself.
Options:
-i stands for interactive mode. Whenever a move is to supercede an existing file, the user is prompted by the name of the file followed
by a question mark. If he answers with a line starting with 'y', the move continues. Any other reply prevents the move from occur-
ring.
-f stands for force. This option overrides any mode restrictions or the -i switch.
- means interpret all the following arguments to mv as file names. This allows file names starting with minus.
SEE ALSO cp(1), ln(1)BUGS
If file1 and file2 lie on different file systems, mv must copy the file and delete the original. In this case the owner name becomes that
of the copying process and any linking relationship with other files is lost.
4th Berkeley Distribution April 29, 1985 MV(1)