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Old 11-10-2011
Moving files and changing name

So I am trying to get my juices flowing on another korn shell scripting project I need to do. I hope my examples here will allow someone to get me pointed in the right direction. I hope I am clear with what I am trying to do.

Example:
Code:
/incomplete/file1v1c1
/incomplete/temp1v1c1
/incomplete/file2v1c2
/incomplete/temp2v1c2

So the above files I want to move into a a specific directory and change the name to clean it up and make it easy for user to read.

So it would look like this after move and name change. If this makes since.

Code:
/file_dir/one/file1_version1_change1
/temp_dir/one/temp1_version1_change1
/file_dir/two/file1_version2_change2

Any ideas are welcome. I want this to be ran as a cron job on the folder and be checking to move and rename when files are in that incomplete folder. Thanks
# 2  
Old 11-11-2011
You can use perl to rename the files:

Code:
ls incomplete/ |perl -n -e 'print "/incomplete/$_"; /(\D+)(\d+)(\D+)(\d+)(\D+)(\d+)/;print "/$1_dir/$2/$1$2_version$4_change$6\n"'|xargs -n2 mv

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Old 11-11-2011
I appreciate the thought. But I am not familiar with perl and would really rather see some ideas for shell scripting. Thanks. Anyone else have thoughts?
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