Move files and change extensions

[markuscj]

Hi

In /home/dat I have a few hundred files with a .dat extension.

I would like to copy these to /home/xml but rename them with a .xml file extension.

I've managed to get these into a file and sed them to change the file extension, but cannot get the contents of the file into the target directory.

Any help please? A solution using ksh would be preferable to me.

 

[Ogzilal]

Hi,

try this, it does not move files, it just prints the commands to execute to do so.
After verifying the result, you can redirect the output to a file, edit the file and drop the lines you don't want to move and execute the reaminder of the file as a shell script.

for FILE in $(ls /home/dat)
do
BN=$(basename $FILE .dat )
print mv /home/dat/$FILE /home/xml/$BN.xml
done

 

[mrn]

See

http://www.shelldorado.com/scripts/categories.html#category5

rename

you should be able to change this to include a move

Mike

"A foolproof method for sculpting an elephant: first, get a huge block of marble, then you chip away everything that doesn't look like an elephant."

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[kHz]

I like arrays. Plus it should be faster than a for loop, especially if there were thousands of files and your machine is slow.

#!/bin/ksh

set -A files $(ls /home/*.dat)
fileNum=${#files[@]}
c=0
newSuffix=xml

while (( c < fileNum )); do
   prefix=${files[c]%%.*}
   suffix=${files[c]##*.}
   mv ${prefix}.${suffix} ${prefix}.${newSuffix}
((c+=1))
done

 

[aixnag]

Copy files

Step 1: #find /home/dat -type f -name "*.dat" -exec cp {} /home/xml \;

Renames files

Step 2: #cd /home/xml

#for i in `ls`
do
mv $i `ls $i|sed 's/.dat/.xml/g'`
done


Hope this helps.

aixnag
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