automatically rename file

uthinkicare · 12-06-2006, 08:34 PM

Hi, i understand that if u do a mv untest.txt /root/test , it will move untest.txt to test directory. But it i want it to automatically rename it to test.txt, how can i go about doing it by using shell script???

can anyone teach me or give mi some idea?

thanks in advance.

gilead · 12-06-2006, 08:39 PM

Have a look at man mv for different uses of the mv command, but basically:

Code:

#!/bin/sh
mv untest.txt /home/steve/test/test.txt

uthinkicare · 12-06-2006, 08:49 PM

Hi, thanks for your reply.

There's 3 files, naming aaa.txt, bbb.txt, ccc.txt.

If i do a mv *.txt, all files in .txt extension will be moved over. If i want it to automatically rename all the files to 1-aaa.txt, 2-bbb.txt, 3-ccc.txt ............. after moving it, how should i go about doing it?

thanks in advance.

gilead · 12-06-2006, 09:14 PM

Do you mean something like this?

Code:

#!/bin/bash

(( n = 0 ))

for i in *txt; do
  (( n += 1 ))
  mv $i tmp/$n-$i
done

uthinkicare · 12-06-2006, 10:28 PM

ops.. the .txt i should change to .png.... haha..sorry my mistake..

thanks alot..

uthinkicare · 12-07-2006, 03:19 AM

erm.. sorry again. i think it will automatically sort it..

thanks again..