Shell Programming and Scripting

Hi,

I am using split in AIX to split a large file into parts, but in AIX, it names the resulting files something like newaaaa, newaaab, newaaac etc (using a-z for each)

I need to rename these new0001, new0002, new0003 etc.

Is there an easy way to do this?

Cheers, Rob

Check the man page for split - GNU split provides a numeric suffix option, not sure about AIX though.

AIX doesn't. The switches in AIX are just:

-a SuffixLength Specifies the number of letters to use in forming the suffix portion of the output name files. The number of letters determines the number of possible output filename combinations. The default is two letters.
-b Number Splits the file into the number of bytes specified by the Number variable. Adding the k (kilobyte) or m (megabyte) multipliers to the end of the Number value causes the file to be split into Number*1024 or Number*1,048,576 byte pieces, respectively.
-l LineCount Specifies the number of lines in each output file. The default is 1000 lines.

How about this, just remove echo if your happy with what it's going to do:

Code:

for file in new[a-z][a-z][a-z][a-z]
do
   let num=num+1
   new=`printf "new%04d" $num`
   echo mv $file $new
done

Thanks. Works fine.