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1. Shell Programming and Scripting
What is wrong with this script to rename batch of similar files? For example renaming all *.txt files to *.tab .
$ for i in seq {01..10}; do touch ${i}.txt; done
$ ./rename.sh *.txt txt tab
Error:
mv: ‘01.txt’ and ‘01.txt’ are the same file.
Code is:
#!/usr/bin/bash
# renames.sh
#... (6 Replies)
Discussion started by: yifangt
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2. Shell Programming and Scripting
Hi all,
Wondering how this could be accomplished........
a directory contains sequentially numbered files from fw01 to fw999.
How would I insert an additional zero so that the directory lists these files in a proper manner?
(i.e. all double digit files from fw01 to fw99 would become... (3 Replies)
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3. Shell Programming and Scripting
Hello everyone. I am new to shell scripting and i am required to create a shell script, the purpose of which i will explain below.
I am on a solaris server btw.
Before delving into the requirements, i will give youse an overview of what is currently in place and its purpose.
... (2 Replies)
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4. Shell Programming and Scripting
hi i have a folder full of files. some of the names are quite off because the dimensions were the same and i had to put a 'b' after the initial number so that it didnt overwrite. what i want is a script in unix to overwrite the filwe name leaving some of the title intact, e.g. below are some... (3 Replies)
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5. UNIX for Dummies Questions & Answers
Hello all, thanks for your time (and this forum, what an awesome resource for newbs like myself!)
Anyways, I've been given the task of importing content from a directory of about...7000 HTML files. They are all named appropriately and broken down by name depending on what book they belong too.... (8 Replies)
Discussion started by: gratefulhokie
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6. UNIX for Dummies Questions & Answers
Hi Gurus,
I have some files(all ending with .out as extension).
Ex:
aa1.out
aa2.out
aa3.out
I would like to append each file with the current date to the end of the file so that they should become aa1_20090504.out.
So I am using rename as follows:
for i in path/aa* ; do mv $i... (5 Replies)
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7. UNIX for Dummies Questions & Answers
Hi all -
I'm trying to rename a large number of files all at once and need some help figuring out the command line syntax to do it. I've already done quite a bit of research with the rename and mv commands, but so far haven't found a solution that seems to work for me. So:
The files exist... (10 Replies)
Discussion started by: dave920
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8. Shell Programming and Scripting
so i have hundreds of files named history.20071112.tar
(history.YYYYMMDD.tar)
and im looking to extract one file out of each archive called status_YYYYMMDDHH:MM.lis
here is what i have so far:
for FILE in `cat dirlist`
do
tar xvf $FILE ./status_*
done
dirlist is a text... (4 Replies)
Discussion started by: kuliksco
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9. Shell Programming and Scripting
Hi friends!
I am having some simple shell script files to build postgresql database and all. Now i want to convert those scripts to dos batch scripts(to run on windows XP/2000/NT) because there is no need of unix emulation for latest release of postgresql. Please somebody help me. (1 Reply)
Discussion started by: darwinkna
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10. Shell Programming and Scripting
I'm doing a short batch script to compile po files producing output binary mo files.
The compilation command is:
msgfmt -o file.mo file.po
so in order to compile I am appending .mo to the varible in a loop.
It goes something like this:
for i in `find . -name "*.po"`
do
echo... (2 Replies)
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