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Given a file named like this: MMDDYY.TXT I want to rename (or copy it
) to 20YYMMDD.TXT
Might be multiple files, so I would do this:
for i in *.TXT
do
cp $i '20'...
done
There are a few ways to do this. One is directly in the shell, using
something like ${varname#.TXT} but I'm not sure the # character is correct
(could be % or !, maybe?) because I don't have my Korn reference handy. You
can find that online at kornshell.com.
The next would be to pipe the filename through sed: $workname=$(echo
${filename}|sed 's/.TXT//')
There are many other ways to accomplish the same thing, but basically what
you want to do is to get a list of the files, then "for each item" get the
workname, and work at the workname level.
Dennis Lovelady
http://www.linkedin.com/in/dennislovelady
--
My intuition nearly makes up for my lack of good judgment.
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