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Renaming 100 files in a directory to new file names stored in a text file
I have a list of 100 files in my working directory
for example
GCF_000021605.1_ASM2160v1_genomic.fa
GCF_001887455.1_ASM188745v1_genomic.fa
GCF_003719755.1_ASM371975v1_genomic.fa
GCF_000021625....
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How to use a Bash Script to move and rename files with grep
Hi I an FTP folder called Input where I get sent files which look something like this:
"Guide to Iceland _ Chen-ping Wang itinerary T-987654987.pdf"
"Guide to Iceland _ T-123654875 Chen-ping Wang ...
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Renaming: Remove last X characters from files in directory
I'm trying to rename a lot of videos downloaded via youtube-dl from various sources. As you may know, yt-dl will append the view code to the file name.
E.g.
Video Title-dQw4w9WgXcQ.mp4
I'm looking ...
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Use wildcard output as a variable in an arithmetic computation
I have files with names and directory paths as follows:
t10n2/data/file.dat0, t10n2/data/file.dat1, t10n2/data/file.dat2, ...
I wish to change the names of the files using an arithmetic operation ...
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renaming files by adding the month and year defined in the file's timestamps
I have script below saved in MYFILES dir to create x number of files & their timestamps was randomly run with multiple years & months.
for i in {1938..2037}; do
## create a file with a ...
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How to rename multiple files by adding a common string at beginning of the files?
I have 100 files. I want to add a text 'new' before all the filenames.
Please help me. Thanks in advance.
Example:
file1.txt ---> new_file1.txt
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file100.txt ---> new_file100.txt
Please ...
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Shell script to move files and rename it with index [closed]
Consider two directories A and B.
A contains a text file A.txt which changes its contents every 3 seconds.
The shell script is to move A.txt to directory B and rename it to A_1.txt.
After 3 seconds ...
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Adding folder name to .zip files inside it
I have file1.zip, file2.zip, etc. in folder called folder1. have similar folders folder2, folder3, etc.
I need to add folder name to each .zip file inside these folders.
So, files inside folder1 ...
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Using rename to remove '.orig' from file and add '_1' to basename
I'm using a script to make backups of files, and to avoid overwriting files I've used cp --backup. Which leaves me with a number of files that look like example.mov.orig and test.mov.orig. I cannot ...
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Copy filenames, and add path prefix, in a directory, recursively
I have a working directory: /home/myusername/projectdir
The working directory contains files and sub-directories. The depth of sub-directories is not known.
I want to put all the *.log files into the ...
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How to rename all files with special characters and spaces in a directory?
How can I rename all the files in a specific directory where the files contains blanks spaces and special characters ($ and @) in their names?
I tried the rename command as follows to replace all the ...
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How to rename multiple files in single command or script in Unix? [duplicate]
I have the below list of files
aro_tty-mIF-45875564pmo_opt
aro_tty-mIF-45875664pmo_opt
aro_tty-mIF-45875964pmo_opt
aro_tty-mIF-45875514pmo_opt
aro_tty-mIF-45875524pmo_opt
that I need to rename to
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renaming a directory and its subdirs without affecting their files
I have to rename directories under the root directory with prefix "ms_PF" and then rename their subdirectories with the modified name of the main directory with an extra "_", and then copy all ...
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