Mailinglist Archive: opensuse (2358 mails)

[maurizio@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx (Maurizio Firmani)]

On ven, 01 ott 1999, Jon Pennington wrote:
> Here's one for you scripting gurus;
> 
> I have a directory with a bunch of tarballs in it (GTK+ themes, actually).
> Each of the names is like this:
> 
>   theme-name[1].tar.gz
> 
> I want the names to be like this:
> 
>   theme-name.tar.gz
> 
> Can't I write a script that will automatically rename all of the files?  I
> have around 300 of them so far, and I'd really rather not do it by hand :).
> 

This simple script should work for you:

#!/bin/sh

for i in `ls *.tar.gz`;  do
    echo "Renaming $i"
    mv $i `echo $i | sed "s/\[.*\]//"`
done

Give it a name, chmod +x and then execute it.

Ciao

Maurizio


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