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Hi methyl,

sorry for the ambiguity. What I meant by "it" was the first path. I was trying to replace a path within a text file with a different path. I could not get it to work because it involved...

Hi RudiC,

the ls is actually a list of subject names that are being replaced within a parameter file that another application is dependent on. As the app processes a particular subject, the...

Thank you so much for responding. One problem, though. It is reading $i as characters and not a variable.....

Hi,

I am attempting to find the path /subject/grin* and replace it with /subject/$i
My attempt:
for i in $(ls)
do
sed -e 's:"/subjects/grin.*":"/subjects/$i.*":g'

and several variants with...

Great - That got it - Thanks!
for i in $(ls mr*); do
STR=$(strings $i | grep MoCoSeries)
mv $i $i$STR
done

strings MR* | grep MoCoseries (actually that works o.k.)

getting that into the filename for files that contain the string is giving me problems. I tried:

STR=strings MR* | grep...

I am attempting to grep an exact string from a series of files within a directory and append that output to the filename when it is present in the file. I've been after this all day with no luck....

Thank you so much! I'm embarrassed to say I've been struggling with that for 2 days. (I have a hard time asking for help :confused:). On the whole the script is beyond my vocabulary, but could you...

The file names are random. The extension is the same (that is probably windows talk - sorry). I want the script to look in each directory and delete the smaller of the two files.
e.g.,

directory...

I am pretty new to scripting, so I appreciate your advice in advance.
The problem:

100 directories each containing 2 files that have the same extension with random names. The only attribute that...