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1. Shell Programming and Scripting
Hello,
I have some video files containing numbers and characters . To tell the problem shortly, due to a limitation, I am unable create a playlist regularly changing on a daily basis with the command shuffle....So I decided to rename filenames, just a replacement of first five numbers randomly.... (10 Replies)
Discussion started by: baris35
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2. UNIX for Beginners Questions & Answers
I am trying to rename files with spaces and other characters and not able to be successful.
FileNames:
UPLOAD REFERENCE.xls
UPLOAD MASS REFERENCE.XLS
find /UPLOAD REFERENCE/ -depth -type f -name "* *" -exec rename " " "_" "{}" ";"
The above one is successful to replace spaces... (1 Reply)
Discussion started by: eskay
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3. Shell Programming and Scripting
how can i remove numbers of characters from the last name of file with respect to not remove the files extension
example
VFX_Official_Trailer_(HD)__Shhh__-_by_Freddy_Chavez_Olmos_&_Shervin_Shoghian-.mp4
i want to rename this to
VFX-Official-Trailer-(HD)-Shhh... (13 Replies)
Discussion started by: ateya
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4. Shell Programming and Scripting
In the Directory all the Files are following format.
Filename_yyyymmdd_numbers.txt
eg.
file_name_20120106_015802.txt .
I want to write the Shell script to rename all the file to
file_name.txt.in the directory.
Thanks
Mani (5 Replies)
Discussion started by: gavemani
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5. Shell Programming and Scripting
Dear All,
Please help !
i ham having 300 file with E.G. PMC1_4567.arc in seq. like PMC1_4568.arc,PMC1_4569.arc ...n and so on.. i want all those file to be rename like PMC_4567.arc ,PMC_4568.arc .. mean i want to remove 1 from first file name ..
pls help.. (6 Replies)
Discussion started by: moon_22
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6. UNIX for Dummies Questions & Answers
Hi, I am pretty new to this.
I have a condition where in I want to replace all files within a folder. All filenames with character "abc" would need to replaced with "xyz".
eg:
helloabcworld-->helloxyzworld
helloworld-->helloworld
...
...
Thanks in advance. (6 Replies)
Discussion started by: sakets_2000
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7. Shell Programming and Scripting
Hi,
I've got a large to task to do, which I've broken into three section. I'm just stuck on one of the sections.
I have to change the end of a filename from .txt to .doc in a directory. So if I have a directory called "folder1" and two files contained in it called "file1.txt" and "file2.txt",... (7 Replies)
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8. Shell Programming and Scripting
Hi All,
Can you please help me.
The situation is like this. There are many different file name in this directory.
I have to grep all the file that the name start with "PTWO" and rename it to COM with the current date.
This is the script that I have done and it hit an... (16 Replies)
Discussion started by: badbunny9316
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9. Shell Programming and Scripting
i have several thousand files and in subdirs that are named
file.46634.txt
budget.75346.pdf
etc
i want to remove the number but retain the extension.
it is always a 5 digit.
thanks. (6 Replies)
Discussion started by: jason7
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10. UNIX for Dummies Questions & Answers
I'm looking to determine if I can use a grep command to read file and rename the file based on the first 3 characters of the data in the file.
An example is:
Read FileA
If the first 3 positions of the data in the file are "ITP", then rename the file as FileA_ITP, else if the first 3... (3 Replies)
Discussion started by: jchappel
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