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# 1  
Old 09-04-2008
Find and replace portion of file names
Hey all,

So I know you can easily find and replace words and strings in text files, but is there an easy way to find and replace just a sub-portion of text in the file name. For example, in a directory I have tons of file names that start with F00001-0708, and I want to change all the files to start with F0001-0708 (subtract a 0).

Example.
F00001-0708-RG-biasliuyda
F00001-0708-CS-akgdlaul
F00001-0708-VF-hioulgigl

and I want them to be:
F0001-0708-RG-biasliuyda
F0001-0708-CS-akgdlaul
F0001-0708-VF-hioulgigl

Thanks in advance!
-M
# 2  
Old 09-04-2008
Try this:

Code:
ls F00001-0708-*|sed 's/\(.\).\(.*\)/mv & \1\2/'

If you get the right command you can pipe the command to sh:

Code:
ls F00001-0708-*|sed 's/\(.\).\(.*\)/mv & \1\2/' | sh

# 3  
Old 09-04-2008
Hi,

You could try something like this, substring replacement in bash,

Code:
lakris@ubuntu:~/projekt/scripts/rename$ ls
F00001-0708-CS-akgdlaul  F00001-0708-RG-biasliuyda  F00001-0708-VF-hioulgigl
lakris@ubuntu:~/projekt/scripts/rename$ for x in F00001*;do echo $x === WILL BECOME === ${x/0000/000};done
F00001-0708-CS-akgdlaul === WILL BECOME === F0001-0708-CS-akgdlaul
F00001-0708-RG-biasliuyda === WILL BECOME === F0001-0708-RG-biasliuyda
F00001-0708-VF-hioulgigl === WILL BECOME === F0001-0708-VF-hioulgigl
lakris@ubuntu:~/projekt/scripts/rename$

Just remove the " === WILL..." and change echo to mv when You are confident that this is what You want.
Should work in ksh as well.

/Lakris

Edit - so essentially it is

Code:
for x in F00001*;do mv $x  ${x/0000/000};done

Last edited by Lakris; 09-04-2008 at 03:40 PM..
 
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