Hey guys,

I want to rename my whole bunch of files has extension of .cfg-sample to .cfg at once

Examples:

checkcommands.cfg-sample escalations.cfg-sample nagios.cfg-sample

to

checkcommands.cfg escalations.cfg nagios.cfg

this is the script that i found from the this website: onlamp.com/pub/a/onlamp/2002/09/05/nagios.html?page=2



for i in *cfg-sample; do mv $i
`echo $i | sed -e s/cfg-sample/cfg/`; done;

it doesn't seems working for me, and i get the following error.

mv: missing file argument
Try `mv --help' for more information.
-bash: cgi.cfg: command not found
mv: missing file argument
Try `mv --help' for more information.
-bash: checkcommands.cfg: command not found


any helps, thanks in advance

suresh

for x in *.cfg-sample
do
mv $x `echo $x | sed s/cfg-sample/cfg/g`
done

I just tried it and it works.

How about this one (from bash):

- 1st, get all you file names in a tempfile like this:

ls -1 *.cfg-sample > tempfile

Note: the "-1" option to get one file per line

- then run this loop:


while read a
do
mv $a `echo $a|sed -e "s\cfg-sample\cfg\g"`
done < tempfile


Carefull to respect the quote " and `
This will read "tempfile" containing your file names line by line and store each line in the variable "a" each time it loops

then you move $a into itself but replacing "cfg-sample" by cfg thanks to the sed command.
Hope this help

I see some are typing quicker then me

We used the same trick so must be the right one...

Some around here are just so eager to help.

your best people. Its works...thanks a lot