Shell Programming and Scripting

Dear all,

Now I have a bunch of files need to be renamed. For instance, I have ten files in a folder with a name 'olefin', and I would like to change all the ten files name into 'olefin01,olefin02,...,olefin10'. I suppose it can be done with the command 'pwd'. However, the command 'pwd' will give the full path of the present folder, /home/study/olefin as an example. The question is how to pick up the folder name 'olefin' from the full path?

I'm not an English native speaker. I hope I have already made me clear here.

Thank you in advance.

Zhen

Try myfolder=`pwd`

Hello figaro,

`pwd` will set the full path to the variable, not the name. How can I cut down the path and only leave the folder name? thanks

Something like this :

Code:

A=/home/study/olefin
B=${A##*/} # to delete the longest correspondance of */ at the beginning of $A
echo $B

to keep the name of file, use command basename

Code:

basename $(echo $PWD)

Yes, I overlooked the requirement you had. You can still do A=`pwd` to fetch the current directory in frans's example.

Thanks you guys, the functional word 'basename' is what I really need. Thanks!