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Top Forums Shell Programming and Scripting Rename multiple files in one go Post 303016759 by kraljic on Thursday 3rd of May 2018 07:44:30 AM
Old 05-03-2018
My for loop (shown below) deleted all the files instead of renaming it Smilie

Any idea how I can do this correctly using a for loop (or any loop) ?
And how did my files get removed with the below mv command ?

Code:
$ ls -l
total 235680
-rw-rw-r-- 1 reportusr reportusr 31259250 May  3 11:25 query1-extract_aa
-rw-rw-r-- 1 reportusr reportusr 31198180 May  3 11:25 query1-extract_ab
-rw-rw-r-- 1 reportusr reportusr 31264556 May  3 11:25 query1-extract_ac
-rw-rw-r-- 1 reportusr reportusr 31246721 May  3 11:25 query1-extract_ad
-rw-rw-r-- 1 reportusr reportusr 31215875 May  3 11:25 query1-extract_ae
-rw-rw-r-- 1 reportusr reportusr 31172285 May  3 11:25 query1-extract_af
-rw-rw-r-- 1 reportusr reportusr 31189621 May  3 11:25 query1-extract_ag
-rw-rw-r-- 1 reportusr reportusr 22774687 May  3 11:25 query1-extract_ah
$
$
$ for i in query1-extract* ; do mv $i ${1}.txt; done
$ ls -lh
total 0
$

 

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IO::Async::PID(3pm)					User Contributed Perl Documentation				       IO::Async::PID(3pm)

NAME
"IO::Async::PID" - event callback on exit of a child process SYNOPSIS
use IO::Async::PID; use POSIX qw( WEXITSTATUS ); use IO::Async::Loop; my $loop = IO::Async::Loop->new; my $kid = $loop->fork( code => sub { print "Child sleeping.. "; sleep 10; print "Child exiting "; return 20; }, ); print "Child process $kid started "; my $pid = IO::Async::PID->new( pid => $kid, on_exit => sub { my ( $self, $exitcode ) = @_; printf "Child process %d exited with status %d ", $self->pid, WEXITSTATUS($exitcode); }, ); $loop->add( $pid ); $loop->run; DESCRIPTION
This subclass of IO::Async::Notifier invokes its callback when a process exits. For most use cases, a IO::Async::Process object provides more control of setting up the process, connecting filehandles to it, sending data to and receiving data from it. EVENTS
The following events are invoked, either using subclass methods or CODE references in parameters: on_exit $exitcode Invoked when the watched process exits. PARAMETERS
The following named parameters may be passed to "new" or "configure": pid => INT The process ID to watch. Must be given before the object has been added to the containing "IO::Async::Loop" object. on_exit => CODE CODE reference for the "on_exit" event. Once the "on_exit" continuation has been invoked, the "IO::Async::PID" object is removed from the containing "IO::Async::Loop" object. METHODS
$process_id = $pid->pid Returns the underlying process ID $pid->kill( $signal ) Sends a signal to the process AUTHOR
Paul Evans <leonerd@leonerd.org.uk> perl v5.14.2 2012-10-24 IO::Async::PID(3pm)
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