Doing a rename using a wildcard? 2

[jisoo23]

Hello everyone,

Ok so I'm a literal newbie to Unix scripting (kornshell in my case) so try not to flail me too much =D

I have a bunch of files that have this sort of format:

test1.log
test2.log
test3.log

I'm trying to create a script that will take those files and rename them with the current datestamp in the middle like so:

test1_102705.log
test2_102705.log
test3_102705.log

I tried the following command:

mv test?.log test?_`date '+%m%d%y'`.log

But my AIX box obviously didn't like that =P I'm sure this is probably a pretty simple thing but I haven't seen any similar examples around using a wildcard. Any help is appreciated!

Thanks,
Jisoo23

 

[PHV]

for f in test*.log; do mv $f ${f%.log}_$(date +%m%d%y).log; done


Hope This Helps, PH.
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[SamBones]

Try this...

#!/bin/ksh

ls -1 test?.log | while read FILE
do
    mv ${FILE} ${FILE%.log}_$(date '+%m%d%y').log
done

Hope this helps.

 

[jisoo23]

Hey that was quick. Thanks guys, I'll try out both of them!