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1. 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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2. Shell Programming and Scripting
Hello -
I was looking to write a simple script trying to rename sub-directories chopping off the last n characters.
For example:
In /home/myname/dir there are three sub-directories: directory1_1, directory2_2, and directory3_3.
Is there a simple script to chop off the last... (4 Replies)
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3. Shell Programming and Scripting
Hi,
I have multiple files that read:
Asa.txt
Bad.txt
Gnu.txt
And I want to rename them using awk to
Asa_ddmmyytt.txt and so on
...
If there is a single command or more efficient executable please share!
Thanks! (4 Replies)
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4. Shell Programming and Scripting
i have some bar files in a directory
appp1.APP.RTP.DEV1
appp2.APP.RTP.DEV1
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i need to rename all files at a time. (6 Replies)
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5. Shell Programming and Scripting
Hi, I need a bit of help.
I've used awk to get the first 7 characters of a file -
awk '{print substr($0,0,7)}' test.csv
How do I now take this variable to rename test.csv to variable.csv ?
Any help or advice would be greatly appreciated! (2 Replies)
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6. UNIX for Dummies Questions & Answers
I'm currently only able to perform some very basic functions, so hope this makes sense...
I have a set of about 27 files that need to be renamed from something like this:
000012ABCDEFGHIJ.XXX.YYY.ZZZ
000078KLMNO.XXX.YYY.ZZZ
000099PQ.XXX.YYY.ZZZ
to something like this:
newa012.abc... (11 Replies)
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7. Shell Programming and Scripting
I am having 6 files named file1,file2....file6 and i need to append number of lines in each file to begining of the file. For example,
If file 1 contains
a
b
c
d
then after adding new line file1 should contain
4
a
b
c
d
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8. UNIX for Advanced & Expert Users
Hi Experts,
here is a background to my problem :
I am exporting data from teradata using fastexport utility, as varchar data.
This pads additional two bytes (2 places as seen in notepad) in the resultset.
I have found out other means of avoiding it but can't use varchar option in that... (5 Replies)
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9. Shell Programming and Scripting
Hello guys,
I was looking for a shell script that removes all the special characters from the files and the subdirectories recursively. I could not locate it any more. Dose any body have a similar script that dose that?
Thanks for the help.
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10. Linux
Hi,
I want to rename all the files (more than 100 files) in a fodler to another folder with date&time stamp.
foe eg,
file1.dat
file2.dat
file3.dat
..
to be renamed as
file1100629_16_30_15.txt (yy-mon-dd_hh_mi_ss)
file1100629_16_30_16.txt
..
so on (2 Replies)
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