Shell Programming and Scripting

Hello

I am currently working on a shell script which actually needs to pull some file

from a server ,


The filenames will have the extension with date/time stamp , i need to trim that and name it to proper format

Example :


xyz_20091108_22142365.gzip


i need to remove the numbers from that and name it to xyz.gzip

i know i can use mv for these but i have huge number of files with different names and with different time stamps .


Please suggest a method to trim the numeric values(date/timestamp) without using a mv command.

Thanks for your help!!

Thanks for your reply,,

it displays the file name , but i need to have the new file name in the directory instead of the one which has the timestamp

xyz_20091108_22142365.gzip should be replaced by xyz.zip in the same directory

but it displays the file name but the actual file is not there.

Thanks for your help again !!

Thanks for your reply :


if the file name is xyz_xyzxyz_xyz_2009565213_20085778992_.lst.gzip

can you please let me know can you you trim the numeric values

output should be :


xyz_xyzxyz_xyz.lst.gzip

Thanks again!

something like this:

Code:

 
echo "xyz_xyzxyz_xyz_2009565213.lst.gzip" |  sed 's/_[0-9][_0-9]*//g'