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Old 07-17-2006
Wanted to eliminate numeric part from a filename
Hi,

I have a filename called XYZ12345.txt.I just want to eliminate numeric and have only XYZ.txt.

How can i do it ?

Regards,
Sona.
# 2  
Old 07-17-2006
Multiple ways of doing it.

Here is one.
Code:
echo XYZ12345.txt | tr -d '[[:digit:]]'

With out the character class the tr statement would be
Code:
tr -d '0-9'

# 3  
Old 07-17-2006
Question Special characters
I have similar problem, but instead of numeric, i would like to remove a special character from a file name: i have a lot of log files that have '@' in the name of the file. Is the way to remove that character the same? Thank you in advance.
# 4  
Old 07-17-2006
Quote:
Originally Posted by ghost01
I have similar problem, but instead of numeric, i would like to remove a special character from a file name: i have a lot of log files that have '@' in the name of the file. Is the way to remove that character the same? Thank you in advance.
Change the pattern in tr

Code:
echo "@a@b" | tr -d '@'

# 5  
Old 07-20-2006
Question
Quote:
Originally Posted by vino
Change the pattern in tr

Code:
echo "@a@b" | tr -d '@'

Thank you for the response. But if i want to rename it, i can't use echo.
I want
history_acc@MTB-20060716.log
rename in
history_accMTB-20060716.log

I tried with mv, but it didn't work. The command i tried was:
mv history_acc@MTB-20060716.log history_acc@MTB-20060716.log | tr -d '@'.
Do you have any suggestions about that?
# 6  
Old 07-20-2006
Code:
mv history_acc@MTB-20060716.log `echo history_acc@MTB-20060716.log | tr -d '@'.`

Last edited by reborg; 07-20-2006 at 09:47 AM.. Reason: remove rogue VB tags.
# 7  
Old 07-20-2006
I tried that too. But instead of file named:
history_accMTB-20060716.log
i got file named
echo history_acc@MTB-20060716.log[/email] | tr -d '@'
 
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