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Top Forums UNIX for Dummies Questions & Answers Lots of file copyingand renaming? Post 79730 by AeroEngy on Saturday 30th of July 2005 11:11:28 AM
Old 07-30-2005
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ugh. what's the relation between LongDesciption_of_File and Totally_different_Char_string (is there a rule to produce latter one from the first one, or are they just constants)? Are MM, DD and YY fields guaranteed to be 2 characters each?
There is very little relationship between the new and old naming format. They are files reduced from hundreds of tests and it seems like every time they performed the same test they called it something different (no naming convention). There is no rule to produce the new name from the old. You just have try to interpret the old name and figure out what they are talking about and rename it accordingly to a standard convention. That way we can catalog all these data files and be able to actually find something when we need to do some research. Luckily someone has come up with a table(text file) of old file name to new ones for every single file that we have. That is why I would like to be able to read from the text file into a script to do all of the copying and renaming.

Quote:
Try something like:

Code:
#! /usr/bin/ksh

exec < /file/with names
while read oldname newname ; do
       echo cp /old/dir/$oldname /new/dir/$newname
done
exit 0

I will give it a shot on monady when I get back to work. I don't have a Unix machine at home to try anything.

Thanks,
 

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GENLIB_COPY_UP_SEG.3(October 1, 1997)									     GENLIB_COPY_UP_SEG.3(October 1, 1997)

NAME
GENLIB_COPY_UP_SEG - copy a physical segment from an instance in the current figure SYNOPSYS
#include <genlib.h> void GENLIB_COPY_UP_SEG(oldname, insname, newname) char *oldname, *insname, *newname; ORIGIN
This software belongs to the ALLIANCE CAD SYSTEM developed by the ASIM team at LIP6 laboratory of Universite Pierre et Marie CURIE, in Paris, France. Web : http://asim.lip6.fr/recherche/alliance/ E-mail : alliance-users@asim.lip6.fr PARAMETERS
oldname Name of the segment in the instance insname Name of the instance in the which the segment is to be searched for newname Name to be given to the segment in the current figure DESCRIPTION
COPY_UP_SEG adds a segment in the current layout cell. All the segment's attributes are copied from the first found segment called oldname in the instance insname. The new segment is given the name newname. The main purpose of this function is to rename a segment, so it can be used later, when extracting a layout. ERRORS
"GENLIB_COPY_UP_SEG impossible : missing GENLIB_DEF_PHFIG" No figure has been yet specified by a call to DEF_PHFIG. So it isn't possible to place a segment inside it. you must call DEF_PHFIG before any other layout action. "illegal getphins : instance insname does not exist" The instance called insname does not currently belong to the figure. "GENLIB_COPY_UP_SEG impossible : segment segname does not exist" The segment segname does not exist in the model of the instance insname. EXAMPLE
#include <genlib.h> main() { /* Create a figure to work on */ GENLIB_DEF_PHFIG("cell"); GENLIB_PLACE("z2l_y", "r1", NOSYM, 23L, 54L); /* Put a segment */ GENLIB_COPY_UP_SEG("mux0_s", "r1", "out_s"); /* Save that on disk */ GENLIB_SAVE_PHFIG(); } SEE ALSO
genlib(1), GENLIB_DEF_PHFIG(3), GENLIB_SAVE_PHFIG(3), GENLIB_PHSEG(3), GENLIB_THRU_H(3), GENLIB_THRU_CON_H(3), GENLIB_THRU_V(3), GEN- LIB_THRU_CON_V(3), GENLIB_WIRE1(3), GENLIB_WIRE2(3), GENLIB_WIRE3(3). BUG REPORT
This tool is under development at the ASIM department of the LIP6 laboratory. We need your feedback to improve documentation and tools. PROCEDURAL GENERATION LANGUAGE
ASIM/LIP6 GENLIB_COPY_UP_SEG.3(October 1, 1997)
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