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Top Forums UNIX for Beginners Questions & Answers Renaming the file names in a directory Post 302996156 by naveed on Thursday 20th of April 2017 11:21:06 AM
Old 04-20-2017
Renaming the file names in a directory
Hi, I have about 60 files in a directory and need to rename those files. For example the file names are

Code:
i_can_phone_yymmdd.txt  (where yymmdd is the date. i.e 170420 etc)
i_usa_phone_1_yymmdd.txt
i_eng_phone_4_yymmdd.txt

The new file names should be
Code:
phone.txt
phone_1.txt
phone_4.txt

I am using the following command but it works only for i_can_phone-170420.txt. The command is

Code:
for file in `ls *.txt`
do
  echo 'The file name is ......' $file

  new_file=`echo ${file}|cut -f3 -d_`.txt

  echo 'The new file name is ......' $new_file
  mv ${file} $new_file
done;

Last edited by naveed; 04-20-2017 at 12:38 PM..
 

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ecaccess-file-move

ECACCESS-FILE-MOVE(1p)					User Contributed Perl Documentation				    ECACCESS-FILE-MOVE(1p)

NAME

       ecaccess-file-move - Move or Rename ECaccess Files

SYNOPSIS

       ecaccess-file-move -version|-help|-manual

       ecaccess-file-move [-debug] source-ecaccess-file target-ecaccess-file

DESCRIPTION

       Allow moving an ECaccess File. When the move occurs within the same ECaccess File System then it is a rename. When the move occurs across
       two different ECaccess File Systems then first a copy is done and then a delete of the original file is done (e.g. similar to ecaccess-
       file-copy ... -erase).

       The source-ecaccess-file and target-ecaccess-file are in the form [domain:][/user-id/]path. Please read the "Shell commands -> File
       Management" section of the "ecaccess" guide for more information on the ECaccess File System.

ARGUMENTS

       source-ecaccess-file
	       The source ECaccess File name.

       target-ecaccess-file
	       The target ECaccess File name.

OPTIONS

       -version
	       Display version number and exits.

       -help   Print a brief help message and exits.

       -manual Prints the manual page and exits.

       -debug  Display the SOAP messages exchanged.

EXAMPLES

       ecaccess-file-move ec:test1.txt ec:test2.txt

       Rename the test1.txt file in the ECFS directory of the authenticated user in test2.txt.

       ecaccess-file-move ec:test1.txt home:test2.txt

       Copy the test1.txt file from the ECFS directory of the authenticated user to the test2.txt file in the $HOME directory of the authenticated
       user, then delete the test1.txt file from ECFS.

SEE ALSO

       ecaccess-file-delete, ecaccess-file-get, ecaccess-file-mget, ecaccess-file-modtime, ecaccess-file-mput, ecaccess-file-rmdir, ecaccess-file-
       copy, ecaccess-file-dir, ecaccess-file-mdelete, ecaccess-file-mkdir, ecaccess-file-chmod, ecaccess-file-put, ecaccess-file-size and
       ecaccess.

perl v5.14.2							    2012-04-16						    ECACCESS-FILE-MOVE(1p)
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