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Old 12-07-2011
Moving and renaming large ammount of files
Hey, I'm kinda new to the shell scripting and I don't wanna mess things up yet Smilie
Looking for a solution to the following:
I need to move all the files like "filename.failed.dateandtime" to another directory also renaming them "filename.ready". I can't figure how to do this with multiple files and add this to a script. Help will be accepted Smilie
# 2  
Old 12-07-2011
You can always try this in some test/temp directory with some example files so you don't mess up anything. What have you tried so far? Btw, you can always scroll down to the bottom of your thread and see which similar/related threads the forum suggests.
# 3  
Old 12-07-2011
thanks, I rushed before searching. Just of the top of my head will something like this work:
mmv -m *.failed.* /to/here/#1.ready
# 4  
Old 12-07-2011
How about this... Test first!
Code:
for i in `find ./ -name *failed*`
do
    newfn=`echo $i |sed 's/failed.dateandtime/ready/'`
    echo "mv $i /somewhere/$newfn"
    # mv $i /somewhere/$newfn
done


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# 5  
Old 12-07-2011
Code:
$ ls -1 *failed* | nawk -F\. '{print "mv "$0" /somewhere/"$1".ready"}' | sh

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