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1. Shell Programming and Scripting
Hi,
In sftp script to get files, I have to rename all the files which I am picking. Rename command does not work here. Is there any way to do this?
I am using #!/bin/ksh
For eg: sftp user@host <<EOF
cd /path
get *.txt
rename *.txt *.txt.done
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2. UNIX for Dummies Questions & Answers
Does anybody know how to make symbolic links for multiple files simultaneously?
Often times I need make symbolic links for multiple files with some common pattern (just like "*.jpg"). Is there a way to avoid making symbolic link for each of them one by one...
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3. Shell Programming and Scripting
I have 34 file in a directory that all have different names, however, they do have 1 pattern in commmon. They all have "-10-11-2010" date format in the name. I want to replace the date in the file name with a supplied date or maybe even the system date. I am sure I will be using awk or sed to... (9 Replies)
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4. UNIX for Dummies Questions & Answers
Hi,
Can we rename multiples files using find or awk utility?
Now I am doing it using for loop and getting the file name and in side the loop using the mv command.
Like ine need t rename all txt files to doc file. For example
a1.txt => a1.doc
a2.txt => a2.doc
a3.txt => a3.doc
myfile.txt... (2 Replies)
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5. UNIX for Dummies Questions & Answers
I have multiple gif files in a directory with different names.
How can i rename them to have this result:
file01.gif
file02.gif
file03.gif
.
.
.
file0500.gif
Thanks for your help. (3 Replies)
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6. Shell Programming and Scripting
Hi,
I have several hundred files I need to rename, and I'm would rather not hit F2 for each file individually to rename them.
Example of file:
large1961.jpg
What I need the file to be renamed as:
1961.jpg
I don't know what type of command I can execute within a shell script that would... (7 Replies)
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7. Shell Programming and Scripting
I have a bunch of files txt1.csv--2008 thru to txt3.csv--2008.
If i wanted to rename these files all at the same time to txt*.csv-2008 what would be the best way to do it...
Just need to get rid of the extra - in each file name.. not all files are going to be called txt*.csv--2008. Just... (6 Replies)
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8. Shell Programming and Scripting
hi,
I've a machine running RHEL3,kernel version 2.4.
i need to rename multiple files under one directory as follows:
ls
demo.c demo.S demo-1243.sw demo.xyz
and now i need to replace the occurrence of demo with demo_1 for each of the above file. the tedious way is to go ahead and do mv on... (2 Replies)
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9. UNIX for Dummies Questions & Answers
Help!
I was trying to rename multiple files. Like in DOS, i decided to use wildcards and now i am missing some files. Any ideas on how to recover them? Or find out where the files went?
I had these 3 files
resume1.log
elecresume.log
compresume.log
The command I ran was
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10. Shell Programming and Scripting
Can someone please tell me how I can rename a bunch of files at a time. I hava a directory that has 700+ files that are named
*.xyz and I would like to rename them to *.abc . How can I do that with a simple command ?
mv *.xyz *.abc did not work.
Thanks in advance (4 Replies)
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