topic Re: rename script. in Operating System - HP-UX

rename script.

Vlad_11 — Wed, 01 Dec 2004 19:37:52 GMT

Hi,
it's help call rather than a question, I trying to write a script that will rename all files in given /mydir/ into inremented by +1 numeric name. Like
file012.dat 101.dat
file333.dat 102.dat
file4.xls 103.xls

I'm on HPUX, thoug probably I will need to run this on PC (after installing Perl) or just under DOS??

Thanks all
Dai

Re: rename script.

Rodney Hills — Thu, 02 Dec 2004 10:59:08 GMT

Here is a ksh script that should work. It goes through all the files in a directory and creates a "mv" statement to rename.

I prefer a script that creates another script so that it gives me a chance to review the "mv" commands.

I also recommend moving the files to another directory. If you move into the same directory you have the potential of renaming a file to a name that already exists.

#!/usr/bin/ksh
typeset -Z3 cnt=0
cd /your/path
ls -1 >/tmp/files
while read line ; do
let "cnt = cnt + 1"
echo "mv '$line' '../newloc/${cnt}.${line##*.}'"
done /tmp/moveit

File /tmp/moveit will be a list of "mv" commands. Enter "sh /tmp/moveit" to run.

HTH

-- Rod Hills

Re: rename script.

BONNAFOUS Jean Marc — Thu, 02 Dec 2004 10:59:32 GMT

Hi,

cd /mydir
NUMBER=100
for file_name in `ls`
do
endname=`echo $file_name|cut -d'.' -f2`
mv $file_name "$NUMBER.$endname"
NUMBER=`expr $NUMBER + 1`
done

Be sure what no directory is present in /mydir else you must to add test if file_name is a directory or not before rename it

Rgds
JMB