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Old 05-20-2014
Command / script to partially rename file
Hi
I have numerous files names
Code:
product_host_result_B1000842.txt
product_host_result_B1000847.txt
product_host_result_C1000842.txt
product_host_result_C1000848.txt

etc. I need them renamed so that the 'product_host_result' becomes 'output_product_host' but the rest of the filename is retained (I've given some examples but it could be almost anything!)
Any help much appreciated
Last edited by bartus11; 05-20-2014 at 11:40 AM.. Reason: Please use [code][/code] tags.
# 2  
Old 05-20-2014
If you have rename utility


Code:
rename product_host_result output_product_host product_host_result*.txt

Please test first.
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# 3  
Old 05-20-2014
Would that work?

Code:
ls product_host_result_*.txt | xargs -n1 -I {} mv -v {,output_}{}

# 4  
Old 05-20-2014
Try:
Code:
for i in *; do mv $i output_product_host_${i##*_}; done

# 5  
Old 05-20-2014
If you don't get any joy with that, can you show us what you want to convert from and what you want to convert to?
# 6  
Old 05-21-2014
Quote:
Originally Posted by clx
If you have rename utility


Code:
rename product_host_result output_product_host product_host_result*.txt

Please test first.
I just tried rename as you posted to check it and it didn't do anything. So I changed to this,

Code:
rename 's/product_host_result/output_product_host/' product_host_result*.txt

and this worked to me.

I am using Bash in Linux and you may be using something different.
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Old 05-22-2014
I tried this one and it renamed every file in the directory ! Luckily I tested it in my $home first !

Apologies should have clarified this is a shared filesystem - not just the ones I want to rename..

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Hi clx

This doesn't work for me. The rename doesn't return any errors so I don't know why..
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