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Top Forums UNIX for Beginners Questions & Answers How to change name of the file with first line of the file which has some unwanted text in it? Post 303030075 by Don Cragun on Tuesday 5th of February 2019 07:02:29 PM
Old 02-05-2019
The following is totally untested, but should come close to what you want. If the lines printed out by this look like the mv commands you hope to run, remove the echo from the awk script and run it again to actually remove the files:
Code:
awk 'FNR == 1 {print "echo mv",  FILENAME, $4 ".log"}' test-?????? | sh

On some systems, this could be made to run considerably faster by changing it to:
Code:
awk 'FNR == 1 {print "echo mv",  FILENAME, $4 ".log"; nextfile}' test-?????? | sh

but the awk nextfile command is not present in all versions of awk and you didn't bother to tell us what operating system or shell you're using (so we can't rely on it being available in your environment).
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RBASH(1)						      General Commands Manual							  RBASH(1)

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rbash - restricted bash, see bash(1) RESTRICTED SHELL
If bash is started with the name rbash, or the -r option is supplied at invocation, the shell becomes restricted. A restricted shell is used to set up an environment more controlled than the standard shell. It behaves identically to bash with the exception that the follow- ing are disallowed or not performed: o changing directories with cd o setting or unsetting the values of SHELL, PATH, ENV, or BASH_ENV o specifying command names containing / o specifying a file name containing a / as an argument to the . builtin command o specifying a filename containing a slash as an argument to the -p option to the hash builtin command o importing function definitions from the shell environment at startup o parsing the value of SHELLOPTS from the shell environment at startup o redirecting output using the >, >|, <>, >&, &>, and >> redirection operators o using the exec builtin command to replace the shell with another command o adding or deleting builtin commands with the -f and -d options to the enable builtin command o using the enable builtin command to enable disabled shell builtins o specifying the -p option to the command builtin command o turning off restricted mode with set +r or set +o restricted. These restrictions are enforced after any startup files are read. When a command that is found to be a shell script is executed, rbash turns off any restrictions in the shell spawned to execute the script. SEE ALSO
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