Issue
All:
Quickly and succinctly, I have many many files named as such:
lorem(12312315).txt
ipsum(578938-12-315-13-416-4).txt
amet(ran-dom-guid).txt
And I want to rename them to what's inside the parentheses dot text, like so:
12312315.txt
578938-12-315-13-416-4.txt
randomguid.txt
I'm sure a mix of sed, awk, grep, etc will do it, but commenting out the parentheses from the shell is throwing me. I cant come up with a string that will do it.
If anyone is kind enough to share a few thought cycles and help me, it would be a lovely Karma gesture!
Thanks for reading! -Jim
Solution
Thank you everyone for the responses! I ended up using a mishmash of your suggestions and doing something else entirely, but I'm posting here for posterity...
The files all had one thing in common, the GUID contained in the filename was also always contained in line 2 of the accompanying file, so I yank lane two, strip out the things that are NOT the guid, and rename the file to that string, for any .xml file in the directory where the script is run.
as such:
for i in ./*xml
do
GUID=`cat "$i" | sed -n '2p' | awk '{print $1}' | sed 's/<id>//g' | sed 's/<\/id>//'`
echo File "|" $i "|" is "|" $GUID
done
In the actual script, I do a MV instead of an ECHO and the files are renamed to the guid.
Hopefully this helps someone else in the future, and yes, I know it's wasteful to call sed three times. If I were better with regular expressions, I'm sure I could get that down to one! :)
Thanks!
Answered By - Jim Howard Answer Checked By - Terry (WPSolving Volunteer)