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# 8  
Old 11-02-2014
What about

Code:
 mmv

Regards
xabbu
# 9  
Old 11-04-2014
Quote:
Originally Posted by RudiC
That works, but this will be smaller/faster/less consumptive:
Code:
ls -1 XV4_* | awk '{X=$1; sub(/_2014/,"_14",X); print "mv", $1,X}'
or
ls -1 XV4_*| sed  's/\(.*\)/mv \1 \1/;s/_2014/_14/2'

Did you consider to just use (recent) shell builtins
Code:
for FN in ABC_*; do echo mv "$FN" "${FN/_2014/_14}"; done

?
Rudi or anyone can you please explain what XV_4 means? I try to run this as a test and naming the file just like the question. Thanks
# 10  
Old 11-04-2014
Quote:
Originally Posted by BigT
Rudi or anyone can you please explain what XV_4 means? I try to run this as a test and naming the file just like the question. Thanks
Do you mean XV4_*

Any file or directory name that starts with the characters X,V,4, and _, that may or may not have any other characters following after that.
# 11  
Old 11-04-2014
Quote:
Originally Posted by Aia
Do you mean XV4_*

Any file or directory name that starts with the characters X,V,4, and _, that may or may not have any other characters following after that.
Thanks, so since the filename starts with ABC....should I replace XV4_ with ABC_
# 12  
Old 11-04-2014
Quote:
Originally Posted by BigT
Thanks, so since the filename starts with ABC....should I replace XV4_ with ABC_
That should do it
# 13  
Old 11-04-2014
Quote:
Originally Posted by Aia
That should do it
mv -rwxrw-r--. -rwxrw-r--
I keep getting that response...also I subsituted all the instances of X for A...X=$1 I used A=$1
# 14  
Old 11-04-2014
Quote:
Originally Posted by BigT
mv -rwxrw-r--. -rwxrw-r--
I keep getting that response...also I subsituted all the instances of X for A...X=$1 I used A=$1
It is hard to see but that's a dash number one, and not a dash `el'
ls -1 XV4_*
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