Shell Programming and Scripting

i want to delete the time stamp from the file which have a date of yester day
640878 Nov 6 09:08 fbres.01.20031106:09:08:30
here is what my ls -lt command shows in current directory
it want it to be

640878 Nov 6 09:08 fbres.01.20031106
thanks

Im not exactly sure what your intentions are here. Do you want to rename an existing file? Modify the filename in a script? Modify a bunch of files that look like this? Can you elaborate a bit more?

To change the file name, use the mv command

mv $PWD/fbres.01.20031106:09:08:30 $PWD/fbres.01.20031106
where $PWD equals the value of the present working directory (i.e. where your file resides)

google i think i was not clear it is not a single file that arrives

-rw-r--r-- 1 comprod commercial 2417281 Nov 6 09:15 fbdemo.01.20031106:09:15:49
-rw-r--r-- 1 comprod commercial 51873 Nov 6 09:11 fbappr.01.20031106:09:11:30
-rw-r--r-- 1 comprod commercial 0 Nov 6 09:10 fbdoe.01.20031106:09:10:40
-rw-r--r-- 1 comprod commercial 55674 Nov 6 09:10 fbcom.01.20031106:09:10:02
-rw-r--r-- 1 comprod commercial 0 Nov 6 09:09 fbcan.01.20031106:09:09:23
-rw-r--r-- 1 comprod commercial 52767 Nov 6 09:08 fbbur.01.20031106:09:08:46
-rw-r--r-- 1 comprod commercial 640878 Nov 6 09:08 fbres.01.20031106:09:08:30
-rw-r--r-- 1 comprod commercial 20431 Nov 6 09:08 fbab.01.20031106:09:08:14
-rw-r--r-- 1 comprod commercial 160386 Nov 6 09:08 fbcntl.01.20031106:09:08:11
-rw-r----- 1 comprod commercial 3910752 Oct 28 02:59 pgrep.01.20031028:02:59:56

this is my actual entry for today in pwd
i want all the files to be stripped of their time stamp and be moved to some other directory
here is desired out come

-rw-r----- 1 comprod commercial 2417281 Nov 7 05:31 fbdemo.01.20031106
-rw-r----- 1 comprod commercial 51873 Nov 7 05:31 fbappr.01.20031106
-rw-r----- 1 comprod commercial 0 Nov 7 05:30 fbdoe.01.20031106
-rw-r----- 1 comprod commercial 55674 Nov 7 05:29 fbcom.01.20031106
-rw-r----- 1 comprod commercial 0 Nov 7 05:28 fbcan.01.20031106
-rw-r----- 1 comprod commercial 52767 Nov 7 05:28 fbbur.01.20031106
-rw-r----- 1 comprod commercial 640878 Nov 7 05:27 fbres.01.20031106
-rw-r----- 1 comprod commercial 20431 Nov 7 05:27 fbab.01.20031106
-rw-r----- 1 comprod commercial 160386 Nov 7 05:23 fbcntl.01.20031106

:-) thanks in advance

Check the search function. Here is one thread that I think may solve your problem Code To Rename Multiple Dirs This thread is about renaming hundreds of directories but you could modify the script that was posted for use on regular files. FYI - I used the keyword 'rename' in my search.

Try this....

#!/bin/ksh

LIST=$(ls -1 $PWD) #Note: Assumption is all are files; no dirs and that all files in PWD are to be renamed. (Add your own rules here!)

for i in $LIST
do
mv $i ${i%%:*}
done

echo "Complete"

google iam sure this is a very effective solution but what i want is some command and not a shell script something using pipes
which i can run in any directory without bothering to change the
value of $pwd each time i run the script .iam unable to do the same \
thanks for the prompt reply :-)

Ok, you will then need to explore using the find command. Find can recursively search all directories from the starting dir that you provide it. It can also perform some action on the files that it finds - you of course define the action to be taken. Take a look at the link in my previous post as it has examples using the find command. Also, see man find