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cranium2004 02-21-2006 10:24 PM
script to rename muliple files
 
helloo,
I downloaded some files using wget and i got thier names starting with "index.php?dir=" how can i remove them in one single script?

gilead 02-21-2006 10:29 PM
There's the rename command with a syntax like rename from to file. An example from the man page is rename .htm .html *.htm. You'd probably have something like:
Code:
rename 'index.php?dir=' '' *

cranium2004 02-21-2006 10:46 PM
hi,
no it not worked. see what i want is
if filename starts with index.php?dir=abcd?=&pqrxbook1.pdf then i want that file to be renames to book1.pdf only

gilead 02-21-2006 10:59 PM
Did you try it this way?
Code:
$ ls -l
total 0
-rw-r--r--  1 steve steve 0 2006-02-22 14:54 index.php?dir=abcd?=&pqrxbook1.pdf
$ rename 'index.php?dir=abcd?=&pqrx' '' *
$ ls -l
total 0
-rw-r--r--  1 steve steve 0 2006-02-22 14:54 book1.pdf
Can the file names vary with different extensions or do the parameter values change?


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