topic Re: how to change the latest character of the filename from 0 --> ? in Operating System - HP-UX

how to change the latest character of the filename from 0 --> ?

Ho_5 — Tue, 11 Nov 2003 06:08:30 GMT

Hi all,

I have a filename like:
2003-11-10_235900, but I want to translate it to 2003-11-10_235900?. The question is how??
I just want to change the latest character from 0 to ?

Thanks.

//john

Re: how to change the latest character of the filename from 0 --> ?

Pete Randall — Tue, 11 Nov 2003 06:11:58 GMT

john,

mv 2003-11-10_235900 "2003-11-10_235900?"

Pete

Re: how to change the latest character of the filename from 0 --> ?

Mark Grant — Tue, 11 Nov 2003 06:12:25 GMT

John,

It's a bad idea to have a "?" in your filename because "?" is a shell meta-character. This means that things like "ls *?*" won't give you the results you were expecting. Also, "rm 2003-11-10_23590?" would actually remove all files that begin with 2003-11-10_23590 and have one other character after them, not just the one file you meant.

Re: how to change the latest character of the filename from 0 --> ?

Hoefnix — Tue, 11 Nov 2003 06:12:39 GMT

you must exclude the ?
just use:
mv 2003-11-10_235900 2003-11-10_235900\?

the result will be
2003-11-10_235900?

Re: how to change the latest character of the filename from 0 --> ?

Victor BERRIDGE — Tue, 11 Nov 2003 06:14:10 GMT

mv 2003-11-10_235900 2003-11-10_23590\?

if you use ksh, make use of name competion then just replace the last char by \?

All the best
Victor