Shell Programming and Scripting

HI I have a list of files that are incorrectely names and I need to move them to new name .. I tried few things that has not worked so far can you help ?

I need to rename all thes eifle ( tere are over 100 )

xldn0357bap.orig.new
xldn0389bap.orig.new
xldn0439bap.orig.new
xldn0475bap.orig.new

to

xldn0357bap.orig
xldn0389bap.orig
xldn0439bap.orig
xldn0475bap.orig

How can I use a move command to do this?

In any Bourne compatible shell (e.g., bash, ksh, sh):

Code:

for i in *.new
do
    mv "$i" "$(basename "$i" .new)"
done

Code:

IFS="."
for FILE in *.new
do
        set -- "$FILE"
        echo mv "$FILE" "$1.$2"
done

Remove the echo once you've tested and are sure it does what you want.

Code:

for fname in `find . -name "xldn*bap.orig.new"`
do
fname1=`basename $fname | cut -d"." -f1`
fname2=$fname1".orig"
mv $fname $fname2
done

That is a dangerous use of backticks, better rewritten as

Code:

find ... | while read FILENAME
do
        ...
done

Code:

 ls *.new | sed 's/\(.*\).new/mv & \1/' | sh

I believe you have only those files that needs to be moved in the directory where you are going to execute above

Do you have a pattern matching both old and new filename set. If yes, you can use the find command with mv in -exec option