Shell Programming and Scripting

Hi,

I want to check all files in a folder for some specific start string and append all matching filenames with _1, _2 .... for each file found in the directory.
But, $file below gives me all details of the files like access permissions, owner and filename etc. I just want all the filenames and I hope the blow code shoudl work ??

Code:

i=1
for file in `ls -l |grep "$filename"`
do 
echo "$file"
mv $file $file_i
i=`expr $i + 1`
done

Kindly help.

Chetan Vyas

Code:

i=1
for f in "$filename"*; do
  printf '%s\n' "$f"
  mv -- "$f" "$f"_$i
  i=$(( i + 1 ))
done

This was what i was trying to do. Now i have done picking up the filenames and renaming all of them in a loop.



Code:

Code:

i=0
for file in `ls |grep "$filename"`
do
echo "$file"
echo $i
i=`expr $i + 1`
mv /var/tmp/akk2/${file} /var/tmp/akk2/${file}_${i}
done

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