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Top Forums Shell Programming and Scripting Linux rename with regular expression Post 303006750 by bobbygsk on Tuesday 7th of November 2017 09:57:09 AM
Old 11-07-2017
Linux rename with regular expression

Hello,

I have the following filenames
Code:
Instruments_20171004.csv_11-03-2017_20:01:06.gz
Instruments_20171030.csv.gz
Orders_0024_20171103.csv_11-03-2017_20:01:05.gz

I like to change the filenames as:
Code:
Instruments_20171004.csv_11-03-2017_20-01-06.gz
Instruments_20171030.csv.gz
Orders_0024_20171103.csv_11-03-2017_20-01-05.gz

I'm trying to replace the ":" with "-"
I tried the following
Code:
rename -v 's/\:/-/g' *2017*.csv_*.gz

It did not throw any error but did not rename the filenames.
Linux <servername> 2.6.18-422.el5 #1 SMP x86_64 x86_64 x86_64 GNU/Linux

Appreciate your help in correcting my code.

Last edited by bobbygsk; 11-07-2017 at 11:08 AM..
 

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rename(1T)						       Tcl Built-In Commands							rename(1T)

__________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________

NAME
rename - Rename or delete a command SYNOPSIS
rename oldName newName _________________________________________________________________ DESCRIPTION
Rename the command that used to be called oldName so that it is now called newName. If newName is an empty string then oldName is deleted. oldName and newName may include namespace qualifiers (names of containing namespaces). If a command is renamed into a different namespace, future invocations of it will execute in the new namespace. The rename command returns an empty string as result. EXAMPLE
The rename command can be used to wrap the standard Tcl commands with your own monitoring machinery. For example, you might wish to count how often the source command is called: rename ::source ::theRealSource set sourceCount 0 proc ::source args { global sourceCount puts "called source for the [incr sourceCount]'th time" uplevel 1 ::theRealSource $args } SEE ALSO
namespace(1T), proc(1T) KEYWORDS
command, delete, namespace, rename ATTRIBUTES
See attributes(5) for descriptions of the following attributes: +--------------------+-----------------+ | ATTRIBUTE TYPE | ATTRIBUTE VALUE | +--------------------+-----------------+ |Availability | SUNWTcl | +--------------------+-----------------+ |Interface Stability | Uncommitted | +--------------------+-----------------+ NOTES
Source for Tcl is available on http://opensolaris.org. Tcl rename(1T)
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