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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
Hello, I have multiple files that I want to change the names to. Let's say for example that I want to rename all the files in the left column to the names in the right column:
What would be the easiest way to go about doing this? Thanks. (1 Reply)
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3. Shell Programming and Scripting
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4. 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
.
.
.
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5. Shell Programming and Scripting
I have to rename 100+ files at a time on the server
& was trying to use a script for doing that.
I have used ultra edit to create a file having
current filename & new file name as below
file234.txt | file956.txt
file687.txt | file385.txt
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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
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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
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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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9. 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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10. UNIX for Dummies Questions & Answers
Hi to everyone!!. Here's my stupid question of the day.
When I have to rename a file I use "mv filename newfilename".
But what about renaming multiple files, for example if I want to add the prefix "old" to several image files (in fact it's what I wanted to do..).
Thanks in advance.... :D (6 Replies)
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RENAME(1) Perl Programmers Reference Guide RENAME(1)
NAME
rename - renames multiple files
SYNOPSIS
rename [ -v ] [ -n ] [ -f ] perlexpr [ files ]
DESCRIPTION
"rename" renames the filenames supplied according to the rule specified as the first argument. The perlexpr argument is a Perl expression
which is expected to modify the $_ string in Perl for at least some of the filenames specified. If a given filename is not modified by the
expression, it will not be renamed. If no filenames are given on the command line, filenames will be read via standard input.
For example, to rename all files matching "*.bak" to strip the extension, you might say
rename 's/.bak$//' *.bak
To translate uppercase names to lower, you'd use
rename 'y/A-Z/a-z/' *
OPTIONS
-v, --verbose
Verbose: print names of files successfully renamed.
-n, --no-act
No Action: show what files would have been renamed.
-f, --force
Force: overwrite existing files.
ENVIRONMENT
No environment variables are used.
AUTHOR
Larry Wall
SEE ALSO
mv(1), perl(1)
DIAGNOSTICS
If you give an invalid Perl expression you'll get a syntax error.
BUGS
The original "rename" did not check for the existence of target filenames, so had to be used with care. I hope I've fixed that (Robin
Barker).
perl v5.12.4 2011-08-10 RENAME(1)