Shell Programming and Scripting

Hi,

I have a problem.

I have some text files in a folder. The names can be like:

emp.txt
emp1.txt
emp3.txt
32emp4.txt

What i need is i have to copy all the files which have "emp" string in their filename
to a different folder and those file names should be appended by "date and timestamp" before the .txt


Can any one tell a shell script for this?


Example

All the above txt files should be renamed as

emp"Date and TimeStamp".txt
emp1"Date and TimeStamp".txt
emp3"Date and TimeStamp".txt
32emp4"Date and TimeStamp".txt


Thanks in advance....

Its always good if you have a starting script to work on. You learn better.

Code:

#! /bin/sh

for i in `ls *emp*.txt`
do
mv $i path/to/new/folder/$i$(date +%F-%T).txt
done

Not tested.

Vino

Thanks Vino.

It worked.

It did ? Didnt you get the .txt twice ?

Vino

Hi Vino,

I got the .txt twice but for my problem i think it should be fine.

If you have any way to remove the .txt before the date let me know.

I can adjust with the code sent by you....

Thanks.....

This should do it.

Code:

#! /bin/sh

for i in `ls *.cpp`
do
tmp=`echo $i | awk -F"." '{ print $1 }'`
mv $tmp.cpp $tmp$(date +%F-%T).cpp
done

Vino

Thanks Vino.........

This one worked perfectly fine......