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Old 06-13-2011
File renaming problem
Can someone tell me how can i remove the RPCFTP word from RPCFTPfilelist.csv file ?
# 2  
Old 06-13-2011
Please google before posting...

Try this.

https://www.unix.com/unix-dummies-que...thin-file.html
# 3  
Old 06-13-2011
you can use sed
Code:
# cat file1
RPCFTP test1 test2
test3 RPCFTP test4
test5 RPCFTP
# sed 's/RPCFTP//g' file1
 test1 test2
test3  test4
test5

# 4  
Old 06-13-2011
Thanks for the reply.
My question is how can i remove RPCFTP word from RPCFTPfilelist.csv filename and print only filelist.csv ?
other than mv command any other way?
# 5  
Old 06-13-2011
Code:
# x=RPCFTPfilelist.csv
# echo ${x#RPCFTP}
filelist.csv

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