I'm reading a book on sed/awk now but I would like to be done with this sometime today. I have 2 files
one with hundreds of <LF> delineated urls "file1"
all of the urls are of the format:
I have a file full of hundreds of <LF> delineated file names. "file2"

I have a directory full of mpg files, all of them have names corresponding to the characters after the last equals sign.

all these files are in the same directory

I want to write a script to 1

1. use sed to parse file 1 and remove everything prior to and including the equals sign, and save this to "file3"

2. write a rename script to parse "file1",
lets say the first line is F93jfs,
I want it to attempt to rename F93jfs.mpg to the first line of "file2" followed by mpg.

Last, Just so everyone knows yes I am trying to batch rename many streamed files. All which I have the rights to. Nothing illegal.

second. I'm not just asking someone to write code for me, I've been fiddling with sed all morning and I'm not having a lot of luck.

Thanks in advance.

Hi there,

Here's a few quick commands that may help.

Firstly, to remove everything up to the equal sign in file1, try:
To create the "rename" script, try:
I hope this helps!

One step at a time----to parse a file and "remove everything prior to and including the equals sign", try this:Translation:
At the beginning of the line, find any number of characters not "=", followed by "="; and replace with nothing.

The generic form:
----the delimiter is "/", but any character can be used---the delimiter is selected such that it does not also appear in the search or replacement strings.

Or with awk you could try something like:

You may find the sed & awk howtos here useful http://www.grymoire.com/Unix/