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# 1  
Old 10-17-2016
Add part of directory name to filename
Hello,

I need to add a part of folder name to the files inside it. For instance the file is

Code:
HMCBackup_20150430.155027.tgz

and it is under directory
Code:
/nim/dr/HMCBackup/cops22

I need to add cops22 to the file name so as it would be
Code:
cops22_HMCBackup_20150430.155027.tgz

Any help in doing this would be appreciated


Thanks
# 2  
Old 10-17-2016
Hi,

can you try this ?

Code:
A=/nim/dir/HMC/cops22
$ echo ${A##*/}
cops22

# 3  
Old 10-17-2016
Quote:
Originally Posted by hasn318
Hello,
I need to add a part of folder name to the files inside it. For instance the file is
Code:
HMCBackup_20150430.155027.tgz

and it is under directory
Code:
/nim/dr/HMCBackup/cops22

I need to add cops22 to the file name so as it would be
Code:
cops22_HMCBackup_20150430.155027.tgz

Any help in doing this would be appreciated
Thanks
Hello hasn318,

So let's say you are in path /nim/dr/HMCBackup/cops22only, then following may help you in same.
Code:
cat script.ksh
PWD=`pwd`
VAL=$1
mv $VAL "${PWD##*/}_$VAL"

You could run script.ksh HMCBackup_20150430.155027.tgz and it will change file HMCBackup_20150430.155027.tgzto cops22_HMCBackup_20150430.155027.tgz, you could pass file name which is present in path and it will rename it as above.

Thanks,
R. Singh
# 4  
Old 10-17-2016
Code:
./test: line 3: $: command not found
./test: line 4: cops22: command not found

I get this error

---------- Post updated at 02:37 PM ---------- Previous update was at 02:28 PM ----------

Actually I have five different folders and files in it that needs to be changed.
Code:
/nim/dr/HMC/cops21
/nim/dr/HMC/cops22
/nim/dr/HMC/cops23
/nim/dr/HMC/cops24
/nim/dr/HMC/cops25

and the files should be named

Code:
cops21_HMCBackup_20161011.123704.tgz
cops22_HMCBackup_201610110.134524.tgz

and so on.
# 5  
Old 10-17-2016
Linux/bash
Code:
cp filename `echo "${PWD##*/}_filename"`

# 6  
Old 10-17-2016
Code:
cp file `echo "{PWD##*/}_filename"`
cp: file: No such file or directory


Code:
cp HMCBackup_20161011.123704.tgz `echo "{PWD##*/}_filename"`
cp: {PWD##*/}_filename: No such file or directory

# 7  
Old 10-17-2016
Quote:
Originally Posted by hasn318
Code:
cp file `echo "{PWD##*/}_filename"`
cp: file: No such file or directory

Code:
cp HMCBackup_20161011.123704.tgz `echo "{PWD##*/}_filename"`
cp: {PWD##*/}_filename: No such file or directory

Hello hasn318,

Let's say you have saved all paths into a file named path_names.
Code:
cat path_names
/nim/dr/HMC/cops21
/nim/dr/HMC/cops22
/nim/dr/HMC/cops23
/nim/dr/HMC/cops24
/nim/dr/HMC/cops25

Could you please try following code and let me know how it goes then.
Code:
while read line
do
	cd "$line"
	for file in *.tgz
	do 
		mv "$file" "${line##*/}_$file"
	done
done < "path_name"

Thanks,
R. Singh
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