[Watford] Bulk Rename Files

[Rob Jefferis]

Morning all, apologies for the delay in getting back on this.

Thanks very much for the replies.

I managed to find a line that worked to rename the files as I wanted which is, rename -v "s/^OUT???-????????-??????-//g" *.gsm

The problem i have now is that running that on the actual folder gives me an Argument list too long error.

When i copy files between these folders i use the line  find -iname * -exec cp -v {} /temp/. \; so that i am essentially copying one file at a time.

I have been trying to combine my 2 examples to complete my bulk rename but so far without much success. Any help would be appreciated.

Thanks again

Rob



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From: watford-bounces at mailman.lug.org.uk [watford-bounces at mailman.lug.org.uk] on behalf of Alain Williams [addw at phcomp.co.uk]
Sent: 28 November 2012 00:44
To: watford at mailman.lug.org.uk
Subject: Re: [Watford] Bulk Rename Files

On Tue, Nov 27, 2012 at 11:43:05PM +0000, Rob Jefferis wrote:
> Hi guys, I have a load of files in a directory with file names similar to below
>
> OUT119-20120702-084956-1341215396.177198.gsm
>
> It is basically OUT(dialingextensionnumber)-DATE-TIME-UNIQUEID.gsm
>
> I would like to somehow bulk rename all the files in this folder to strip everything other than the uniqueid.gsm bit
>
> So in this case I want the file to end up called
>
> 1341215396.177198.gsm
>
>
> Is there a quick way to do this?

Using ksh

for file in *.gsm
do mv $file ${file#~(E:+(OUT+(\d)-+(\d)-+(\d)-))}
done

The syntax is a little strange.

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