rename file script

[Duffs]

Hi,

I need to rename multiple files within a dir whilst maintaining the old filename also. All files are of the format ORD?????? and I need to rename these to ORD??????K.

Since there are hundreds of files in the dir I need to script this but unfortunately Iam not having much luck. Anybody any ideas?

D.

[Pete Randall · Accepted solution]

Something like this?

cd /target_dir
for FILE in ORD*
do
ln -s $FILE $FILEK
done

I used the link command because you said you wanted to retain the original - normally I would have renamed with mv.


Pete

[TwoProc]

for i in ORD??????
do
mv $i ${i}K
done

[Laurent Menase]

#!/usr/bin/ksh
for i in ORD??????
do
mv $i ${i}K

[Laurent Menase]

done
of course

[A. Clay Stephenson]

You could do something like this:

#usr/bin/sh

ls | grep -E -e '^ORD.{6}$' | while read FNAME
do
NEW_FNAME="${FNAME}K"
if [[ -e "${NEW_FNAME}" ]]
then
echo "Can't copy ${NEW_FNAME}; file exists." >&2
else
cp "${FNAME}" "${NEW_FNAME}"
fi
done

[Duffs]

Thanks a millions lads, great help!
Cheers,
D.