Renaming a bunch of files in Unix

[Yusuboy]

Hi guys,

I am receiving some files from a remote server and need to rename them on my Unix box before they can be processed. Any ideas on how to do this, with a script maybe?

Yus.

 

[feherke]

Hi

Want to rename automatically or manually ? Receiving through what protocol ? Rename what to what ? Why [tt]mv[/tt] and/or [tt]rename[/tt] is not enough ?

Feherke.

http://rootshell.be/~feherke/

 

[Yusuboy]

Hi

I want to rename the file automatically as they are being received every few mins.

Yus.

 

[feherke]

Hi

Maybe use [tt]cron[/tt] ? This will run each 5 minutes and change the extension of files in the given directory :

*/5 * * * * rename ".htm" ".html" /tmp/html_documents/*.htm

Feherke.

http://rootshell.be/~feherke/

 

[PHV]

Feherke, which flavor of *nix has a rename command ?

 

[feherke]

Hi

[blue]master #[/blue] cat /etc/SuSE-release 
SuSE Linux 8.1 (i386)
VERSION = 8.1

[blue]master #[/blue] rename --version
rename from util-linux-2.11u

[blue]master #[/blue] file -b `which rename`
ELF 32-bit LSB executable, Intel 80386, version 1 (SYSV), dynamically linked (uses shared libs), stripped

On our old Debian was abit different [tt]rename[/tt], that one was a script.

Feherke.

http://rootshell.be/~feherke/

 

[PHV]

feherke, here is the -General UNIX discussion Forum and you have to know that

GNU is Not Unix

;-)

 

[KarveR]

SCO_SV 5.0.5




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