crontab question

!! hack-back !! · 03-31-2013, 02:02 PM

hello minds,
i want to rename file every 10th in the month
and then restart service
can i do it with cron tab and how ??
thank you

sag47 · 03-31-2013, 02:31 PM

Look at the man 5 page for crontab in the terminal. It will tell you how scheduling works.

Code:

man 5 crontab

This would be best handled by writing a script which gets called every 10th of the month.

Code:

#run somescript at 3am on the 10th day of every month.
0 3 10 * * /path/to/somescript

eklavya · 04-01-2013, 01:16 AM

Code:

#!/bin/bash
mv /path/of/the/file /same/path/with/new/name
service start service-name

If you want to rename multiple files of same directory, you can use reg-exp like this,

Code:

Removing all blank space with rename command:
$ rename "s/ *//g" *.mp3
To remove .jpg file extension:
$ rename 's/\.jpg$//' *.jpg
To convert all uppercase filenames to lowercase:
$ rename 'y/A-Z/a-z/' *
To Remove a String from a filename:
$ rename 's/\\//g' *

and use crontab mentioned by sag47.