On Monday 09 April 2001 10:46 am, Rusty Carruth wrote:
> Dave Horsfall <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > On Sat, 7 Apr 2001, Kelley Terry wrote:
> > > Is there a way to rename multiple files all of the format
> > > q####_tif.bz2 to q####.tif.bz2 where the # represent digits. In
> > > other words I need to change the underscore "_" character to a dot "."
> > > for all the file names in a directory. If there is a way to do this
> > > w/o a shell script it would be great but I can't find one.
> >
> > Use the following script; it emulates the "=" wildcard of CP/M systems.
> >
> > Usage would be (in your case) "mved q=_tif.bz2 q=.tif.bz2".
> >
> > Use the "-n" switch for test only - no action. Hack for your shell
> > where necessary.
>
> cool, I'll have to digest that one and see if it ends up making it into
> my list of scripts...
>
> Anyway, what I usually do is the dumb:
>
> me@mine> for i in q????_tif.bz2 ; do
>
> > ni=`echo $i | sed 's/_tif.bz2//'` # set ni to the base part I
> > want mv $i $ni.tif.bz2 # do the move
> > done
>
> That way I can season the action to taste, depending upon what exactly
> I wanted to do. (Since you can get REALLY creative there when you
> set $ni. Of course: (1) if you are not using bash then you'll have
> to change things a bit; and (2) if you are not lucky enough to be
> changing the destination name to something that has a '$'-eval
> delimiter as its first char then you'll have to say something like:
>
> mv $i "$ni"foo.boo.yoohoo
>
> but, you knew that, right? ;-)
>
> And, yes, I know the problem has now been solved at least 3 different
> ways - isn't that (one of the) point(s) of unix? ;-)
>
> rc
>
>
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I didn't know I would generate so much response to this. Again thanks to
those who responded. I did learn something new especially with some of the
scripts and am saving the responses. What I simply did was: rename _ . *
which changes all underscores to dots for all files in the pwd. This could
be filtered for specific files or specific occurrences in the files making it
very useful. But as you mentioned there are many ways to do it.
--
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"In a world without walls and fences, who needs windows and gates?"
Kelley Terry <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
