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# 1  
Old 08-27-2014
To replace a filename
Hi

i want to replace date stamp filename to original file name. i want to remove the datestamp after .txt For eg:

Code:
file_name.txt_01-1002014

output:
file_name.txt

tried with below one but not able to achieve
Code:
mv file_name.txt_01-1002014`basename "file_name.txt_01-1002014 "`.txt

# 2  
Old 08-27-2014
mv file_name.txt_01-1002014 file_name.txt
# 3  
Old 08-27-2014
Hi,

I am having set of files in a directories which needs to replaced. with normal mv command i can achieve it for one file. For e.g. in my $DIR i am having below files:
cd $DIR
f1_name1.txt-01-01-1988
f2_name2.txt-01-02-1987
. .
..
..
output:
Code:
f1_name1.txt
f2_name2.txt

# 4  
Old 08-27-2014
Code:
for FILE in "$DIR"/*.txt[_-]*
do
        if [ -e "${FILE/.txt*/.txt}" ] 
        then
                echo "${FILE/.txt*/.txt} already exists, not renaming $FILE"
                continue
        fi

        echo mv "$FILE" "${FILE/.txt*/.txt}"
done

Remove the 'echo' before the 'mv' once you've tested and seen it does what you want.
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# 5  
Old 08-27-2014
Or something like:
Code:
for FILE in ....... 
do
  mv $FILE ${FILE%_*}
done

 
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