UNIX for Beginners Questions & Answers

for a in *split*; do cat $a | cut -d "~" -f 9 | head -n 1; done | wc -l

for i in *split*; do tail="$(head -1 $i |cut -d "~" -f 9 )"; mv $i ${i}_$tail; done

for file in filename*                                  # For every file in the current directory that starts with "filename"
do
  if [ -r "$file" ]; then                              # Check if the file is readable
    IFS='~' read x x x x x x x x string x < "$file"    # Read the 9th field of the first line of the file into variable string and close
    if [ "$string" ]; then                             # Check if the string is not empty
      mv -- "$file" "${file}_${string}"                # Rename the file 
    fi 
  fi
done

IFS='~' read -a string <"$file"

for i in *split*; do tail="$(head -1 $i |cut -d "~" -f 9 )"; echo $i ${i}_$tail; done

for f in filename*; do mv "$f" `echo $f | tr ' ' '_'`; done

for a in filename*; do mv $a $a.edi; done

read string2 <<< "$string"

read string2 << EOF
$string
EOF

for file in *' '
do	mv "$file" $file
done