Renaming multiple files in a folder

Shell Programming and Scripting
1

Hi ,

Need help to rename the files in a folder. The .xml needs to be removed from the middle and appended to the end as in the example shown .

Example From:

TestMessage.xml2010-10-19_20_21_08
TestMessage.xml2010-10-20_20_21_09
TestMessage.xml2010-10-21_20_21_08
TestMessage.xml2010-10-22_20_21_09

Example To:

TestMessage2010-10-19_20_21_08.xml
TestMessage2010-10-20_20_21_09.xml
TestMessage2010-10-21_20_21_08.xml
TestMessage2010-10-22_20_21_09.xml

Thanks in advance.
Chari

2

If you are sure you have only files you want to rename;

ls * | awk -F ".xml" '{print "mv "$0,$1$2".xml"}' | sh

Please check first without the RED, if every thing seems file, go with that.

with sed,

echo "TestMessage.xml2010-10-19_20_21_08" | sed 's/\(.*\)\.xml\(.*\)/\1\2\.xml/g'
1 Like
3

Another one:

ls | while read file
do
  new=$(echo "file"|sed 's/\([^\.]\)\(\....\)\(.*\)/\1\3\2/')
  mv "$file" "$new"
done
4 
for f in *; do
    mv "$f" "${f%%.xml*}${f#*.xml}.xml"
done

Regards,
Alister

5

ls -1|nawk -F".xml" '{print $1$2".xml"}'