Why are the filename and message content in different files? One little mistake will create a giant mess.
In any case, this being UNIX, there's ways to hedge your bets... I'd make an 'out' folder and create links in it, instead of renaming the original files. If something goes wrong, you're not left with all your files irreparably misnamed, just a bit of trash you can delete and start over.
Code:
#!/bin/bash
mkdir -p ./out/
exec 5<filenames
exec 6<filetitles
while read LINE FILENAME <&5 && IFS=$'\t' read NUM FILETITLE <&6
do
if [ "$NUM" -ne "$LINE"]
then
echo "Numbers do not match?"
continue
fi
FILETITLE="${FILETITLE//$'\t'/ - }" # Change tab into ' - '
ln "$FILENAME" out/"${NUM} ${FILETITLE}"
done
exec 5<&- # Close files
exec 6<&-
This should create links in the ./out/ folder of the right names.
i have hundreds of directories that have to be renamed. the directory structure is fairly uniform which makes the scripting a little simpler.
suppose i have many directories like this */*/*/*abc* (in other words i have similar directory names 3 dirs deep that all contain the pattern abc in... (8 Replies)
I need to split a file based on certain context inside the file. Is there a unix command that can do this? I have looked into split and csplit but it does not seem like those would work because I need to split this file based on certain text. The file has multiple records and I need to split this... (1 Reply)
Hi,
I have some ps files where I want to ectract/copy a certain number from and use that number to rename the ps file.
eg:
'file.ps' contains following text:
14 (09 01 932688 0)t
the text can be variable, the only fixed element is the '14 ('. The problem is that the fixed element can appear... (7 Replies)
Evening all. I'm having a terrible time with a script I've been working on for a few days now...
Say I have a text file named top10song.tm2, with the following in it:
kernkraft 400
Imagine
i kissed a girl
Thriller
animals
hallelujah
paint it black
psychosocial
Oi to the world... (14 Replies)
Hi,
I'm not very experienced in shell scripting and that's probably why I came across the following problem:
I do have several hundred pairs of text files (PF00x.spl and PF00x.shd) where the first file (PF00x.spl) needs to be renamed according a string that is included in the second file... (12 Replies)
I have a number of files in directories labeled like this:
/Data/tr_gray/tr_DTI/dti_FA.nii.gz
(the brackets here represent a range of number that the files are labeled with)
I need to rename each dti_FA.nii.gz file according to the name of the folder it resides in. For example, the file ... (3 Replies)
Hello,
I have a file ff.txt that looks as follows
*ABNA.txt
356
24
36
112
*AC24.txt
457
458
321
2
ABNA.txt and AC24.txt are the files in the folder named foo1. Based on the numbers in the ff.txt file, I want to extract the lines from the corresponding files in the foo1 folder and... (2 Replies)
I have files in the ABC_YYYYMMDD.zip format under a directory. Each zip file contains A text file in the ABC_YYYYMMDD.txt format.
I am trying to create a script that will Rename the zip files and their underlying text file replacing the datepart in them with .
For eg: in the case of... (1 Reply)
Hi,
I have a directory with a lot of files like this:
a.bam
b.bam
c.bam
I like to rename these files based on a list where the name of the files in the first column will be replasced by the names in the second column. Here is my list which is a tab-delimited text file:
a x
b y
c ... (4 Replies)
Hello, I have a text file "file.list" with the contents below.
file1
filename1
file2
filename2
file3
filename3
file1, file2 and file3 are files existing in the same directory as the text file file.list.
I want to rename file1 to filename1, file2 to filename2, as show in the text... (1 Reply)
Discussion started by: james2009
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rmm
RMM(1) [nmh-1.5] RMM(1)NAME
rmm - remove messages
SYNOPSIS
rmm [+folder] [msgs] [-unlink | -nounlink] [-version] [-help]
DESCRIPTION
By default, rmm will remove the specified messages by renaming each of the message files with a site-dependent prefix (usually a comma).
Such files will then need to be removed in some manner after a certain amount of time. Many sites arrange for cron to remove these files
once a day, so check with your system administrator.
Alternately, if you wish for rmm to really remove the files representing these messages, you can use the -unlink switch. But messages
removed by this method cannot be later recovered.
If you prefer a more sophisticated method of `removing' messages, you can define the rmmproc profile component. For example, you can add a
profile component such as
rmmproc: /home/foouser/bin/rmm_msgs
then instead of simply renaming the message file, rmm will call the named program or script to handle the files that represent the messages
to be deleted.
Some users of csh prefer the following:
alias rmm 'refile +d'
where folder `+d' is a folder for deleted messages, and
alias mexp 'rm `mhpath +d all`'
is used to "expunge" deleted messages.
The current message is not changed by rmm, so a next
will advance to the next message in the folder as expected.
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
rmmproc: Program to delete the message
SEE ALSO refile(1), rmf(1)DEFAULTS
`+folder' defaults to the current folder
`msgs' defaults to cur
`-nounlink'
CONTEXT
If a folder is given, it will become the current folder.
BUGS
Since refile uses your rmmproc to delete the message, the rmmproc must NOT call refile without specifying -normmproc, or you will create an
infinte loop.
MH.6.8 11 June 2012 RMM(1)