change file names

Jerry greenmt at gmail.com
Tue Feb 21 10:22:01 EST 2006


Drew,

That is so neat!!!  Thank you!.

To be honest, I didn't know there is a command "rename" exist. Did I
surprised folks here? LOL

Jon, thank you for your script too!!! I think I certainly can benefit from
it later on.

Again, thank you all!!! Now the urgency at work is gone. :)

Zhao

On 2/21/06, Drew Van Zandt <drew.vanzandt at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> rename exp1 exp2 *.txt
>
> Also:
> man rename
>
> --DTVZ
>
> On 2/21/06, Jerry <greenmt at gmail.com> wrote:
> > Hi All *nix experts.
> >
> > Sorry I'm being thick-skinned again here, and begging for the answer of
> a
> > no-brainer question.
> >
> > I have a bunch of files located in the same directory "/export".
> >
> >
> > Their file names look like below:
> >
> >
> > exp1eve1.txt
> >  exp1eve2.txt
> >  exp1eve3.txt
> >  exp1eve4.txt
> >  .....
> >
> >
> > The pattern is that only the last character changes, as you can see,
> >  from 1 to 4.
> >
> >
> > My goal is to find a short solution to replace all 4th character, which
> >  is "1",  with "2", so they will look like this:
> >
> >
> > exp2eve1.txt
> >  exp2eve2.txt
> >  exp2eve3.txt
> >  exp2eve4.txt
> >  .....
> >
> >
> > Any input is much appreciated.
> >  Thanks,
> > Zhao
> >
>
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