It's a good idea to have a backup of the files you want to rename *before* you attempt to perform the mass rename process. Just in case something goes wrong.
Try this to see if the mv commands are being built as expected:
Run this to perform the actual mass rename process (be patient):
With 30k files even if x, y, and z are all single digit numbers, the arg list for the ls command suggested by junior-helper will be over a megabyte. On many systems that will be too big to exec. I don't see any need for awk or perl for this; it can easily be done entirely in the shell:
To actually move the files instead of just showing what commands it produces, take out the echo shown in red after you verify that the mv commands produced by this script will do what you want.
This will work with any POSIX conforming shell (such as ksh and bash) no matter how many files are present matching the pattern.
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Oops. POSIX allows the elements of a pipeline to be executed in separate subshell environments. The above will work with any POSIX shell; the original script provided before this edit works in ksh, but not bash.
Last edited by Don Cragun; 11-15-2014 at 05:17 PM..
Reason: Fix for bash...
Hello friends!
I have a problem with my script. I'm a italian boy. Sorry for my english ehehehehehhe.
I've many files .jpg and I would like rename they in this mode:
I have not files with progressive number e I would like rename with progressive number. Example:
DSC_0012.JPG
DSC_0582.JPG... (7 Replies)
Hi all,
I have a many folders with zipped files in them. The zipped files are txt files from different folders. The txt files have the same names. If i try to
find . -type f -name "*.zip" -exec cp -R {} /myhome/ZIP \; it fails since the ZIP files from different folders have the same names and... (2 Replies)
Hi All,
I want to write a script to rename the file in to the incremental order
for example
Original file
filename=/nfs/n1/file1.img
filename=/nfs/n1/file1.img
filename=/nfs/n1/file1.img
filename=/nfs/n1/file1.img
filename=/nfs/n1/file1.img
I want output shpuld be... (4 Replies)
I have the following directories in my home directory,
my scripts
dbmig es
ms_done
my-home
I want my output to look like the following
MyScripts
DbmigEs
MsDone
MyHome
Basically, I want to get rid of spaces,special characters and convert the first letter of each word to uppercase and... (1 Reply)
Hello,
I have this problem.
In a directory I have 4 csv files with this format:
PHOENIX_KM_INTERAZIONI_YYYYMMDD.csv
PHOENIX_KM_TRIPLETTE_YYYYMMDD.csv
NEWCAB_KM_INTERAZIONI_YYYYMMDD.csv
NEWCAB_KM_INTERAZIONI_YYYY_MM_DD.csv
YYYYMMDD: format CURRENT date
I wont rename all files in... (4 Replies)
I wrote a simple script that converts my windows text files to unix, so that I can compare them to different unix files purposes of my project.
win2unix file1.txt file1Win.txt
win2unix file2.txt file2Win.txt
etc
Is there a way to simplify this to:
<while .txt in... (5 Replies)
Hi, i need a bit of help writting a tcsh script which renames all ascii text files in the current directory by adding a number to their names before the extension
so for example, a directory containing the files
Hello.txt
Hello.t
Hello
should have the following changes,
Hello.txt... (2 Replies)
Let me preface this by stating I have absolutely no idea what I'm doing in this arena, but I'm in need of a little help here.
I need to take filenames like this: amwed_0402c-slug~1-cp.jpg
And reduce them to slug~1.jpg
That is, I need to remove the first 12 and last 3 characters. The... (3 Replies)
Have files of the sort 3p1522015.dgn and need to have them renamed to 152201.dgn. Essentially dropping the 1st 2 characters and the last. I'm relatively new to UNIX and uncertain of where to start. I hope this provides enough detail.
Thanks (5 Replies)
Hi All !!!
Is there any solution to get rid of / " * in old files names WITH A SCRIPT
(About 100 Gb of old files)
I know it can be done i just dont know how !
Hope that some one can help
Best R.
Yovel (1 Reply)