Rename a file after the name of its parent dir

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Started a thread in beginners but I thought someone from this forum may have an idea as well. Thanks!

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To rename a file to have the same names as parent directory you could do the following:

cd /home/test
inputfile="tempfile"
dirname=`pwd`
filename=basename $dirname
mv $inputfile $filename

Now you should see a file called test in /home/test.

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Thank you very much for the help.