Not sure I fully understand.
You want to rename several ".wav" files in a directory - not more than 30, so definitely NOT 3 digits - to new names without the ".wav" extension based on the contents of a text file indexed by the leading number in the ".wav" file name?
Any attempts / ideas / thoughts from your side? Any preferred tools?
Sorry for late answer, been busy.
Yes, I think you got it just right.
The file with index 1 get's it name from line 1 in the document.
The file with index 23 get's it name from line 23 in the document.
Each line begins with a digit already and these should in almost all cases coincide with the line number. No file exceeds 99 lines.
I read the manual for grep and also had a look at commands like sed and I know I can pipe the output of one command to the input of another command but I can't figure out how to do that in this case. In pseudocode it would be something like:
Code:
Start
n = 1
While not EOF in document.txt
A = contens of line n in document.txt
rename file n*.wav to A
end while
If it's possible I would rather do this with a simple commad in Unix rather than build a script. It's not meant to be advanced in any way, handling exceptions and things like that. If it works 8 times out of 10 I'm fine.
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vzlist(8) Containers vzlist(8)NAME
vzlist - show various information about containers
SYNOPSIS
vzlist [-a | -S] [-n] [-H] [-o name[,name...] | -1] [-s [-]name] [-h pattern] [-N pattern] [-d pattern] [CTID [CTID ...]]
vzlist -L | --list
vzlist --help
DESCRIPTION
This utility is used for listing containers and their parameters. By default only running containers are listed. If one or more CTIDs are
specified, only specified containers are displayed.
For the fields that can have many values (e.g. ip), all the values are displayed only for the last (i.e. leftmost) column; otherwise, only
the first value is shown.
OPTIONS -a, --all
List all containers.
-S, --stopped
List only not running containers (including the ones with status shown as mounted or suspended).
-n, --name
Display container names instead of hostnames.
-H, --no-header
Suppress displaying the header row.
-o, --output field[,field...]
Display only the specified fields (see Standard fields subsection below).
-1 Synonym for -H -octid, i.e. only show container IDs, one per line.
-s, --sort [-]field
Sort by the value of field (possible arguments are the same as for -o). The - before the field name means sorting in the reverse
order.
Output filters
List of CTs can be further filtered using the following options. For patterns one can use the same wildcards as in shell (i.e. *, ?, and
[]). Note: to avoid expansion of wildcards by the shell, one have to escape the pattern by either putting it into single quotes (like
'a*a') or by adding a backslash before the wildcard character (like a*a).
-h, --hostname pattern
List only containers whose hostnames matches the pattern.
-N, --name_filter pattern
List only containers whose names matches the pattern.
-d, --description pattern
List only containers with descriptions matching the pattern.
Possible fields
-L, --list
list all available format specifiers that can be used for both output (-o, --output) and the sorting order (-s, --sort).
For the user beancounter fields, if suffix is not specified, current usage (a.k.a. "held") value is show. One can also use the fol-
lowing suffixes:
.m maxheld
.b barrier
.l limit
.f fail counter
For the disk quota fields, if suffix is not specified, current usage is shown. One can also use the following suffixes:
.s soft limit
.h hard limit
EXAMPLES
vzlist -o ctid,kmemsize,kmemsize.l -s kmemsize
Show CTIDs, kmemsize usage, and kmemsize limit for all running containers, sorted by the kmemsize usage.
EXIT STATUS
Returns 0 upon success.
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