Re: In need of a SHELL Script - Please!!!
From: Alexander Dünisch (phaedrus_at_gmx.net)
Date: 10/28/03
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Date: Tue, 28 Oct 2003 20:54:15 +0100
On Tue, 21 Oct 2003 15:55:45 -0400, rbristol
<member45122@dbforums.com> wrote:
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>I'm not terribly familiar with shell scripting and would like to know if
>someone has a script that loops through the files in a directory and
>replaces the first 3 letters of the file name while leaving the last 20
>characters the same.
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>For example change 'OLD_01012003_101000.xls' to
>'NEW_01012003_101000.xls' (note that the 'new' and 'old' are consistent
>values that do not vary...but the time stamp does).
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>Please let me know.
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>(frustrated)...
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>RBB
# sh,bash,ksh
cd directory_where_your_files_are
typeset -a old=(`ls OLD*`)
typeset -a new=()
for index in `seq -s " " 0 \`expr ${#old[@]} - 1\`` do
new[index]=`echo ${old[index]} | sed 's/OLD/NEW/'`
mv ${old[index]} ${new[index]}
done
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