As long as you're using bash (or a 1993 or later version of ksh) and not just restricting yourself to POSIX required features and assuming that the file /home/cmccabe/Desktop/list/QC/metrics.txt contains the names of the files you want to move on the 1st three lines of that file (rather than being the name of a file that you want to copy to three other files), I'd be tempted to replace:
with:
Last edited by Don Cragun; 02-22-2017 at 04:24 PM..
Reason: Remove the echo.
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I'm looking to determine if I can use a grep command to read file and rename the file based on the first 3 characters of the data in the file.
An example is:
Read FileA
If the first 3 positions of the data in the file are "ITP", then rename the file as FileA_ITP, else if the first 3... (3 Replies)
File.jpg
I want to copy and rename this as 2008-12-02.jpg
I tried this copy File.jpg date '%y-%m-%d-%H:%M:%S'.jpg
This doesnt work.... what do i do? (1 Reply)
Hi,
Found lots of stuff that is close but no cigar...
I have a file ie. a.txt, and I want to copy it to another directory 5000 times and call it:
a1.txt
a2.txt
...
a5000.txt
Struggling to put a loop together in this new world of AIX. please include full script for me to understand... (3 Replies)
hi all,
I have one config folder and updates folder.updates folder contains file tmp_2.0_20201208_45.xml and config folder contains file tmp.xml.When the tmp_2.0_20201208_45.xml file is copied in the config folder the name of this file is changed in config folder again as tmp.xml(old... (8 Replies)
Hi All,
I am very new to shell scripting .
In my current task i want to create .sh file that will rename the existing file with appending _bu in it. And then copy new file .
e.g if i have file linuxFirst.java then i want to rename it to linuxFirst_bu.java ..Then want replace with latest... (1 Reply)
Hello,
I've been searching and reading, but I can't figure out how to solve this problem with my newbie skills.
In my directory, I have a list of files (see dirlist.txt attachment) that I need to merge and rename. I have part of the code of the code figured out (see below). However, I... (3 Replies)
Hi Guys,
I have the following problem. I have original file (org.txt) that looks like this
module v_1(.....)
//arbitrary number of text lines
endmodule
module v_2(....)
//arbitrary number of text lines
endmodule
module v_3(...)
//arbitrary number of text lines
endmodule
module... (6 Replies)
Hi All,
My requirement is as follows:
A file (say abc) will be having list of the .txt file names. I need to read this abc file line by line and rename the .txt file names inside it and move them to other folder/path.
Eg:
abc
-------
file1.txt
file2.txt
file3.txt
Output (should... (1 Reply)
I have bunch of files in my source folder like below and every day based on date I am receiving file ex: Nov 28,Nov 29,Nov 30 ...
-rw-rw-r--+ 1 root root 20 Nov 27 06:00 aaaa27.txt
-rw-rw-r--+ 1 root root 20 Nov 28 06:00 aaaa28.txt
-rw-rw-r--+ 1 root root 20 Nov 29 06:00 aaaa29.txt
I... (4 Replies)
I have a specific set (all ending with .bam) of downloaded files in a directory /home/cmccabe/Desktop/NGS/API/2-15-2016. What I am trying to do is use a match to $2 in name to rename the downloaded files. To make things a more involved the date of the folder is unique and in the header of name... (1 Reply)