Regular expression help

remoteboy · 2003-10-31 09:11:28

Hi, I need help constructing a script that will do the following - 1. find all filenames that begin with 6 characters (alphanumeric) followed by a '-' AND that end in .jpg. 2. then I need to rename each of the files so that the first '-' is replaced by a '*' and all remaining '-' are replaced by a space ' '. I'm running…

31-10-2003 09:11AM

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remoteboy

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Hi,

I need help constructing a script that will do the following -

1. find all filenames that begin with 6 characters (alphanumeric) followed by a '-' AND that end in .jpg.

2. then I need to rename each of the files so that the first '-' is replaced by a '*' and all remaining '-' are replaced by a space ' '.

I'm running OSX using the t shell.

Cheers.

Michael

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#2 31-10-2003 03:13PM

Delboy79

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Is this homework ???

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#3 01-11-2003 04:50PM

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Try this:

ls [0-Z][0-Z][0-Z][0-Z][0-Z][0-Z]-*.jpg|while read i
do
echo $i|sed s/-/*/|sed s'/-/ /'g
done

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#4 02-11-2003 01:08PM

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[0-Z][0-Z][0-Z][0-Z][0-Z][0-Z]-*.jpg

Should that not be a "-.*.jpg"

That would only match a file ending in any number of '-'s

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