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1. Shell Programming and Scripting
I have a specific set (all ending with .bam) of downloaded files in a directory /home/cmccabe/Desktop/NGS/API/2-15-2016. What I am trying to do is use a match to $2 in name to rename the downloaded files. To make things a more involved the date of the folder is unique and in the header of name... (1 Reply)
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2. Shell Programming and Scripting
After reading the manual of the command rename I would like to apply it to a folder with a couple of files containing old style dots before the file-type, e.g. up.to.the.roof.avi. So I'd like to rename them without the dots in between. Therefore I tried it the following way
rename -f -n ... (4 Replies)
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3. Shell Programming and Scripting
Hello,
I have multiple files named rscclog_2013-03-25.txt;3 in a directory, where 2013-03-25 is the previous day's date and the number after extension .txt preceded by a ';' is any number which i do not know beforehand.
Now, i have to rename all such files as rscclog_2013-03-25.txt
thus,... (2 Replies)
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4. Shell Programming and Scripting
I have a list file that contains names of many files. I am reading one file name at a time using for loop
Then I like to create one more list file but with the file extension changed to "ctl".
Note: The file name can have any number of dots ".". But the extension after the last dot should be... (4 Replies)
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5. Shell Programming and Scripting
Hi,
I am trying to make all file in the directory uppercase but not their extension (ex: image.jpg becoming IMAGE.jpg)
here is code i am trying.
$ ls | while read file
do
name=${file%%.*}
newfilename=$(echo $name | tr 'a-z' 'A-Z')
mv $file $newfilename
done
any suggestions of... (4 Replies)
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6. Shell Programming and Scripting
Hi guys,
i had many files like filename.20110520_20110519_050030
i have to rename the file by removint the last numerics ..
i.e filename.dat
i tried with cut command and removed the numerics but i'm not able to add .dat to the files.
is there any command insted of cut command to... (1 Reply)
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7. UNIX for Dummies Questions & Answers
I searched the forum, but there was different type of rename.
Hello.
I have files in folder.
Like:
xxxxxxxx1.html
or
xxxxxxxx2.txt
or
xxxxxxxx3.tar.gz
and how to rename or change file extension case to
xxxxxxxx1.htm
or
xxxxxxx2.TXT
or (5 Replies)
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8. Shell Programming and Scripting
hi all,
i'm new to shell scripting, i need help from u guys to do my task now..
i just need to check a file extension existence in a directory, and if it exists then i have to continue my processing.
pls give me the command to check the extension of the files (6 Replies)
Discussion started by: divak
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9. Shell Programming and Scripting
I am trying for loop to rename file extension from .txt to .html :
as below :
for i in *.txt; do mv "$i" `basename $i`.html; done
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But this renames a file file1.txt as file1.txt.html
anyone know how get avoid .html added after .txt ?
it... (4 Replies)
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Hi need to know if we can write a shell script to find files for a particular format;s ie both .csv and .txt in a particular folder and then copy them to a new folder on a dialy basis. Does anyone know how this can be accomplished?
Thanks,
Sandeep (20 Replies)
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