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1. Shell Programming and Scripting
After reading the manual of the command rename I would like to apply it to a folder with a couple of files containing old style dots before the file-type, e.g. up.to.the.roof.avi. So I'd like to rename them without the dots in between. Therefore I tried it the following way
rename -f -n ... (4 Replies)
Discussion started by: 1in10
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2. Shell Programming and Scripting
Hello,
I have multiple files named rscclog_2013-03-25.txt;3 in a directory, where 2013-03-25 is the previous day's date and the number after extension .txt preceded by a ';' is any number which i do not know beforehand.
Now, i have to rename all such files as rscclog_2013-03-25.txt
thus,... (2 Replies)
Discussion started by: rahulkt1987
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3. Shell Programming and Scripting
I have a list file that contains names of many files. I am reading one file name at a time using for loop
Then I like to create one more list file but with the file extension changed to "ctl".
Note: The file name can have any number of dots ".". But the extension after the last dot should be... (4 Replies)
Discussion started by: pinnacle
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4. Red Hat
currently in my directories
$ ls -lrth
total 32K
-rw-r--r-- 1 oracle oinstall 864 Feb 25 16:01 cor_bin_gateway_cnt.sql
-rw-r--r-- 1 oracle oinstall 782 Feb 25 16:01 mer_bin_gateway_cnt.sql
I want to rename files with *.sql to *.mv extension, but when I execute the following
$ mv... (1 Reply)
Discussion started by: jediwannabe
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5. Shell Programming and Scripting
Hi,
I have files with filenames as below.
SGM Daily Sales Email-en-us-05312012.xlwa
I want to rename it in .xls. I am writing a script to change this, as there can be multiple files in subfolders.
I have the following script.
#!/bin/ksh
for oldfile in $(find... (1 Reply)
Discussion started by: mac4rfree
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6. UNIX for Dummies Questions & Answers
I'm currently only able to perform some very basic functions, so hope this makes sense...
I have a set of about 27 files that need to be renamed from something like this:
000012ABCDEFGHIJ.XXX.YYY.ZZZ
000078KLMNO.XXX.YYY.ZZZ
000099PQ.XXX.YYY.ZZZ
to something like this:
newa012.abc... (11 Replies)
Discussion started by: bbmcg
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7. Shell Programming and Scripting
Hi,
I am trying to make all file in the directory uppercase but not their extension (ex: image.jpg becoming IMAGE.jpg)
here is code i am trying.
$ ls | while read file
do
name=${file%%.*}
newfilename=$(echo $name | tr 'a-z' 'A-Z')
mv $file $newfilename
done
any suggestions of... (4 Replies)
Discussion started by: johninweb
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8. UNIX for Dummies Questions & Answers
The below 'ls' command will list down files with extensions and suppress the ones with no extension
ls |grep "\\." But this dosen't work when I apply the same logic using 'find' command
find . -type f |grep "\\." I need help on how this logic can be implemented using 'find' command (3 Replies)
Discussion started by: meenavin
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9. Shell Programming and Scripting
Hi guys,
i had many files like filename.20110520_20110519_050030
i have to rename the file by removint the last numerics ..
i.e filename.dat
i tried with cut command and removed the numerics but i'm not able to add .dat to the files.
is there any command insted of cut command to... (1 Reply)
Discussion started by: apple2685
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10. Shell Programming and Scripting
I am trying for loop to rename file extension from .txt to .html :
as below :
for i in *.txt; do mv "$i" `basename $i`.html; done
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But this renames a file file1.txt as file1.txt.html
anyone know how get avoid .html added after .txt ?
it... (4 Replies)
Discussion started by: sriram003
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