still this does not work.
it needs to run recursively BUT have the perviously renamed directory name on hand.
if it does not have the "new" name it will not -find- it in the next renaming step.
EDIT: The code has been modified so only the child directory is modified.
Here is a sh script that will surely work:
It's a bit hackish but the trick is to rename deeper directories first
- The first block of code creates a tmp file containing what find finds
- The second block calculates the depth of the directories and writes to tmp2, for each directory, a line in the form "5|/path/to/the/direc/tory". Then the file is sorted so deeper directory are first in the file tmp
- The third block actually rename each child directory with a pattern of choice
Remove the echo on the last line in the third loop to rename the files
thank you so much ...
it took me a night and your help...but now it s working.
but onestly...i realy need you to explain to me what your lines do?
cd ..
moeves on directory backwards so from /home/user to /home
but don't I want to move forward?! at least that is waht the function "stepin" is supposed to do" so e.g. /home/user/ to /home/user/direcorty_in_home
this is twisted..sorry I dont get it....could you PELASE comment so I get out this with having learned something?!
thank you
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tested it ...still not working all the way
see the underscores in "level_2, level_3 and level_4" of the first directory?
Renaming files using rename on the following files
rename 's/.99999/.99999.sac.pzs/g' *.99999
sac_pzs_iv_esml_hhz__2013.074.10.18.23.0000_2599.365.23.59.59.99999
sac_pzs_iv_favr_hhe__2010.187.00.00.00.0000_2599.365.23.59.59.99999... (1 Reply)
I want to rename files
Files show like this
1977SSD_rsdtst.pdf
1976SDP_rstdtsr.pdf
1943FDT_rstdsrt.pdf
1996DFF_stdstrd.pdf
I want to introduce _ after the year, and move the characters to the end
to get
1977_rsdtst_SSD.pdf
1976_rstdtsr_SDP.pdf
1943_rstdsrt_FDT.pdf... (4 Replies)
hello, all
I have following files:
file_1 file_2 file_3 ... file_9
Now I want to rename them as:
file_001 file_002 file_003 ... file_009
how to use function 'rename' to accomplish this task? (2 Replies)
Hi,
I have files in the format
thread_1_seq_1965.440.755943413
thread_1_seq_1966.577.755943443
thread_2_seq_2034.383.388388888
I want to rename this in the form of
1_1965.arc
1_1966.arc
2_2034.arc
Discard everything except the th char and . The character position... (3 Replies)
how to rename a file if I don't know file location ?
Can we below command :
$ find / | mv file1.txt
I am not sure........can any1 help me out ?
Thanks,
Tushar Joshi:mad: (1 Reply)
hi guys i am writing a script to change the filename which is enterered as input to lower case letter even if one letter is upper case i have to change it to lower case
i get the input and use
sed comand should i use like that
sed/s/a-z/A-Z/d
will it be like that can u please help me (8 Replies)
Hello, I've a list of file like this
img_001
img_22
img_44
and I would rename all with this form
photo_0001
photo_0002
photo_0003
photo_0004
suggestions?Thanks to all. (2 Replies)
hi,
im doin an assignment which requires you to build a shell script to do the MS DOS style equivilant (sp?) of the rename function. What i have to do is a loop which checks the following rules and output messages (same):
Can't have anything after target
Can't have more than one dot
Can't... (1 Reply)
Hi all
how can can remove the underscore from this number in this series
_1234567.abc
_1234567.abcd
I was trying mv _1234567* 1234567
but did not work ?
thanks
s (2 Replies)