topic Re: find help! (rename) in Operating System - HP-UX

find help!

allanm77 — Mon, 16 Jan 2012 19:55:06 GMT

Hi All!

I have a list of directories

./"002 000 jack"/
./"002 001 black"/
./"002 002 white"/
./"002 003 orange"/

mv "002 000 jack" "`echo "002 000 jack" | awk '{$2 = sprintf("%03d",$2+1); print;}'`"

# the result is:
mv "002 000 jack" "002 001 jack"

I have been struggling to do this through find/xargs combination.

find . -name "002*" -print0 …

How can I do this using find/xargs to rename( increment the second sequence by 1).

Thanks,
Allan.

Re: find help! (rename)

Dennis Handly — Tue, 17 Jan 2012 01:44:33 GMT

>How can I do this using find/xargs to rename (increment the second sequence by 1).

Forget about xargs. Try:

find . -name "002*" -print | awk '

{

save = "\"" $0 "\""

$2 = sprintf("%03d", $2+1)

new = "\"" $0 "\""

print "mv", save, new

}' | sh

Re: find help! (rename)

allanm77 — Mon, 16 Jan 2012 21:52:22 GMT

Thanks Dennis!