Mailinglist Archive: opensuse (2358 mails)

[bshelton@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx (Brad Shelton)]

On Fri, Oct 01, 1999 at 03:33:58PM +0200, Maurizio Firmani wrote:
> 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.

This will take all *[%].tar.gz files and completely strip the brackets AND
numbers from the file name. So, if you have go-theme[1].tar.gz and
go-theme[2].tar.gz you're gonna delete some files you don't want to.

Maybe it should be:

#!/bin/sh

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

instead?


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