Shell Programming and Scripting

Hi,
Is it possible to rename with wild charaters as destination name

ex
I wanna rename xxx_1010_zzz_0.txt to aaa_1010_zzz_1.txt,
yyy_1000_ppp_1.txt to bbb_1000_ppp.0.txt

I wanna reatin some of the patterns in the filename, rest I wanna rename.
like
mv ETL_Account_20051217_001_1.tsv aaa_*_1.txt

I know the above is incorrect statement, but I wanna acheve what it refers to. Is that possible ?

You could use character substitution, such as:

Code:

patt=ETL

for a in ${patt}*
do
  mv $a aaa${a#$patt}
done

This strips ETL from the start of the file names of all files starting ETL and then prefixes the names with aaa, so:
moves ETL_Account_20051217_001_1.tsv to aaa_Account_20051217_001_1.tsv
moves ETL_Account_20051218_001_1.tsv to aaa_Account_20051218_001_1.tsv
moves ETL_Account_20051219_001_1.tsv to aaa_Account_20051219_001_1.tsv

etc...

any good to you?

cheers

Hi,
Thanks,yes it does.I've modified little bit to include ls command.

Regs