mv command to rename multiple files that retain some portion of the original file nam


 
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Old 12-20-2008
mv command to rename multiple files that retain some portion of the original file nam

Well the title is not too good, so I will explain.

I need to move (rename) files using a simple AIX script.

???file1.txt
???file2.txt
???file1a.txt
???file2a.txt

to be:

???renamedfile1'date'.txt
???renamedfile2'date'.txt
???renamedfile1a'date'.txt
???renamedfile2a'date'.txt

The ??? are realy numbers 001 through 999, and there are two filenames per number. The 'date' is easy `date +%Y%m%d`. but due to my limited scripting ability, I cannot seem to get this accomplished.

Any help would be greatly appreciated.

Thanks in advance.
# 2  
Old 12-20-2008
Something like this? Try it first without the coloured portion to see if you get the right commands:

Code:
ls ???file??.txt | sed "s/\(...\)\(.*\)\.\(.*\)/mv & \1renamed\2""`date +%Y%m%d`"".\3/" | sh

Regards
# 3  
Old 12-20-2008
It works greatly on UBUNTU
Code:
ls ???file*.txt | sed "s/\(...\)\(.*\)\.\(.*\)/mv & \1renamed\2`date +%Y%m%d`.\3/" | sh


Last edited by lifegeek; 12-20-2008 at 05:09 PM..
# 4  
Old 12-20-2008
For whatever reason (did a copy and paste of the line into a script) this did not work. I only got one file with a `date +%Y%m%d`.txt

for f in *pepfilled.txt ; do
mv $f /usr/$fclaims`date +%y%m%d`.txt
done

Am I missing a quote(s) somewhere? The red claims above is the new file name with a format of ???claims20081220.txt, renamed from ???pepfilled.txt.

This will get half my files ???pepfilled.txt, I will just write the same script for the other half ???pepfilledcr.txt.
# 5  
Old 12-21-2008
You provided weak examples, in your first post, of the input and the desired output. Try this:

Code:
ls ???pepfilled*.txt | sed "s/\(...\).*\.\(.*\)/\1claims`date +%Y%m%d`.\2/" | sh

Regards
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