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# 1  
Old 09-29-2014
Replace file name with Space as content
Hi,

I am having a files in my directory like this:
Code:
2014 1049_file1.txt
2014 1050_file2.txt
2014 1110_file3.txt
2014 1145_file4.txt
2014 2049_file5.txt

I need to replace the above file names like this without changing the content of filename:
Code:
file1.txt
file2.txt
file3.txt
file4.txt
file5.txt

I tried something like this but didn't workout:
Code:
for i in *.txt
do
mv $i ${*_i}
done

# 2  
Old 09-29-2014
try:
Code:
mv "$i" "${*_i}"

# 3  
Old 09-29-2014
Hi

its not working its throwing an error
-bash: ${*_i}: bad substitution
# 4  
Old 09-29-2014
Try this:

HTML Code:
#!/bin/bash
for i in "*.txt"
do 
mv $i ${i#*_} 
done
# 5  
Old 09-29-2014
Hi

it didn't replace the file with your code
# 6  
Old 09-29-2014
Try:
Code:
for f in *txt;do
     tui-echo "$f" "${f/*_/}"
done

# | 2014 2014_file1.txt                                                                                  file1.txt | #
# | 2014 2014_file2.txt                                                                                  file2.txt | #
# | 2014 2014_file3.txt                                                                                  file3.txt | #
# | 2014 2014_file4.txt                                                                                  file4.txt | #
# | 2014 2014_file5.txt                                                                                  file5.txt | #
# | 2014 2014_file6.txt                                                                                  file6.txt | #
# | 2014 2014_file7.txt                                                                                  file7.txt | #
+ ~/tmp $

Of course you need to replace tui-echo with mv
Last edited by sea; 09-29-2014 at 12:48 PM..
# 7  
Old 09-29-2014
This will work:
Code:
for i in *.txt
do 
mv "$i" "${i#*_}"
done

---------- Post updated at 05:25 PM ---------- Previous update was at 05:20 PM ----------

Quote:
Originally Posted by shekhar_4_u
Code:
for i in "*.txt"

The problem here is that all txt files will expand, but within the double quotes, thus i becomes one long string containing a list of all text files instead of handling/representing each file separately.

Hope this helps.
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