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1. Shell Programming and Scripting
Daily stupid question. I want to increment the file name everytime the script is run. So for example if the filename is manager.log and I run the script, I want the next sequence to be manager.log1. So to be clear I only want it to increment when the script is executed. So
./script... (10 Replies)
Discussion started by: metallica1973
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2. Shell Programming and Scripting
Hi all,
I want to generate output files in a loop, run the same command on the same input file 1000 times and output in files with a new name each time, maybe a number appended to it. The output will be different each time as I`m sampling randomly from the input file.
I want to do the... (3 Replies)
Discussion started by: newbie83
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3. Shell Programming and Scripting
Hi there,
I've got a set of files that are named as follows:
image_N1_8letters.jpg
image_N2_8letters.jpg
...
image_N10_8letters.jpg
image_N11_8letters.jpg
....
image_N100_8letters.jpg
image_N101_8letters.jpg
with the "8letters" bit always consisting of 8 but always different... (3 Replies)
Discussion started by: kjartan
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4. Shell Programming and Scripting
Hi,
I have some hundreds/thousands of files named logX.dat, where X can be any integer, and they are sequential, X ranges between 1 and any number:
log1.dat log2.dat log3.dat log6.dat log10.dat ... log6000.dat
I would like to rename them to
scatter_params_0001.dat... (6 Replies)
Discussion started by: pau
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5. Shell Programming and Scripting
Hi again,
What i'm trying to accomplish here is search a large directory for certain filesames, read from a txt file and looping through it.
For instance, one of my target names from the loop file is:
1ad55f47-c342-496b-a46d-ba7de0f1b434
My loop is constructed thusly, run in a directory... (2 Replies)
Discussion started by: Karunamon
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6. Shell Programming and Scripting
Hi All,
Could you please help in this case?
Case: there's a directory 'CKMDB'
in this directory, there are 30 files named in this manner
1.txt 2.txt 3.txt .... 30.txt
Could you please guide me how to list only even numbered
files like 2.txt... (5 Replies)
Discussion started by: xsam
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7. Shell Programming and Scripting
I'm trying to search all .odt files in a directory for a string in the text of the file.
I've found a bash script that works, except that it can't handle whitespace in the filenames.
#!/bin/bash
if ; then
echo "Usage: searchodt searchterm"
exit 1
fi
for file in $(ls *.odt); do
... (4 Replies)
Discussion started by: triplemaya
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8. UNIX for Dummies Questions & Answers
HIya,
Having a dumb day whilst writing an archive process in Shell want to extract from the filename the date and archive into tar files based on this, I don't want to use mtime as it may not be the actual file date.
The files are
-rw-rw---- 1 user admin 100 Aug 29 11:10... (2 Replies)
Discussion started by: badg3r
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9. Shell Programming and Scripting
hey guys. i'm new to shell scripting but not new to programming. i want to write a script that will take all the files in the current directory that end with a particular filetype and change all their names to a number in order. so, it would take all the jpg files and sort them in alphabetical... (30 Replies)
Discussion started by: visitorQ
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