On Wed, Nov 24, 2004 at 06:21:50PM -0000, Tanney, Austin wrote:
> The naming system is as follows (this is an example filename that actually exists)
> RDCR011_D09_2004-03-30.scf
>> In this case.. I want to change the name to
> xRDCR011_D09.scf
>> Basically.. I want to remove the characters "_2004-03-30"
> Now.. these are not set characters and change for each file.
> I'm happy enough to run this as 4 processes.. i.e., one for each file type.
>Okay - are the filenames all the same length ?
if so - cut may be your friend here !
for i in *
do
export $start =`( echo $i | cut -c1-11)`
export $end = `(echo $i | cut -c22-25)`
mv $i ${start}${end}
done
It's not going to be the fastest - but it'll work :)
P
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