Re: renaming file on IFS

On Feb 8, 2020, at 4:28 AM, Patrik Schindler <poc@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

Hello Duane,

Am 07.02.2020 um 23:44 schrieb Danner, Duane <ddanner@xxxxxxxxxxxx>:

Is there a way to have a cl check the folder and if there is a file that starts with %BMOCOM then rename it to CLRBMO.TXT

Not with CL but with qsh, you can pick up the first filename and rename like this:

cd /path/in/ifs; mv `ls -1 '%BMOCOM'* |head -1` CLRBMO.TXT

Please note that in the example above the backticks are essential. These are in function like braces in mathematics: The expression within will be evaluated first and replaced by the evaluated value.

My Example is very crude because,
- it doesn't check if the destination file already exists and blindly overwrites,
- it takes only the first file (to suppress errors if multiple files with a similar name exist).

Pack this into a qsh call and it will do what you need.

(Tested successfully in qsh V4R5 :-) )

:wq! PoC

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