Renaming files

[Devin Teske]

On Jan 9, 2013, at 9:29 PM, Odhiambo Washington wrote:

> I have several files in this format:
> 
> rw-r--r--   1 johndoe johndoe    20085 Jan  9 19:30 1357744249.26989.mbox:2,
> -rw-r--r--   1 johndoe johndoe    24419 Jan  9 19:30
> 1357744250.26989.mbox:2,
> -rw-r--r--   1 johndoe johndoe      418 Jan  9 19:30
> 1357744251.26989.mbox:2,
> -rw-r--r--   1 johndoe johndoe      418 Jan  9 19:30
> 1357744252.26989.mbox:2,
> -rw-r--r--   1 johndoe johndoe    78426 Jan  9 19:30
> 1357744254.26989.mbox:2,
> -rw-r--r--   1 johndoe johndoe     2561 Jan  9 19:30
> 1357744255.26989.mbox:2,
> -rw-r--r--   1 johndoe johndoe     6971 Jan  9 19:30
> 1357744257.26989.mbox:2,
> -rw-r--r--   1 johndoe johndoe    11270 Jan  9 19:30
> 1357744259.26989.mbox:2,
> 
> I'd like to rename them so that the filenames are in the format below:
> 
> -rw-------   1 johndoe johndoe  197702 Jan 10 03:00
> 1357776052.V803I33939aM83469.mail.domain.me.net:2,
> -rw-------   1 johndoe johndoe   14579 Jan 10 03:31
> 1357777873.V803I33939bM614733.mail.domain.me.net:2,
> -rw-------   1 johndoe johndoe   29212 Jan 10 03:46
> 1357778798.V803I33939cM995892.mail.domain.me.net:2,
> -rw-------   1 johndoe johndoe    2834 Jan 10 04:30
> 1357781421.V803I33939dM597872.mail.domain.me.net:2,
> -rw-------   1 johndoe johndoe   10593 Jan 10 06:18
> 1357787890.V803I33939eM865700.mail.domain.me.net:2,
> -rw-------   1 johndoe johndoe   43565 Jan 10 07:10
> 1357791044.V803I33939fM193189.mail.domain.me.net:2,
> -rw-------   1 johndoe johndoe   15492 Jan 10 07:42
> 1357792926.V803I3393a0M601349.mail.domain.me.net:2,
> 
> 
> The first part of the filename is unique, so I just need to substitute
> 26989.mbox:2, with V803I33939aM83469.mail.domain.me.net:2, hoping there
> will be no clash:(
> 

sh -c 'for file in *.26989.mbox:2; do mv $file ${file%%.*}.V803I33939aM83469.mail.domain.me.net:2; done'
-- 
Devin

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