{"id":30973,"date":"2023-01-18T15:39:45","date_gmt":"2023-01-18T10:09:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/jassweb.com\/solved\/solved-some-troubles-with-using-sed-and-awk-closed\/"},"modified":"2023-01-18T15:39:45","modified_gmt":"2023-01-18T10:09:45","slug":"solved-some-troubles-with-using-sed-and-awk-closed","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jassweb.com\/solved\/solved-some-troubles-with-using-sed-and-awk-closed\/","title":{"rendered":"[Solved] Some troubles with using sed and awk [closed]"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> [ad_1]<br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div id=\"answer-9856675\" class=\"answer js-answer accepted-answer js-accepted-answer\" data-answerid=\"9856675\" data-parentid=\"9856390\" data-score=\"2\" data-position-on-page=\"1\" data-highest-scored=\"1\" data-question-has-accepted-highest-score=\"1\" itemprop=\"acceptedAnswer\" itemscope itemtype=\"https:\/\/schema.org\/Answer\">\n<div class=\"post-layout\">\n<div class=\"votecell post-layout--left\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"answercell post-layout--right\">\n<div class=\"s-prose js-post-body\" itemprop=\"text\">\n<p>From what we can discern of this question, you&#8217;re attempting to create a programmatic rule to rename files ending in extensions <code>stdout-captured<\/code>, <code>stderr-captured<\/code>, and <code>status-captured<\/code> (assuming one typo)  into files ending in extensions <code>stdout-expected<\/code>, <code>stderr-expected<\/code>, and <code>status-expected<\/code>, respectively.  Obviously, if each of these definitions is inclusive of exactly one file, a rote <code>mv<\/code> may be more appropriate.<\/p>\n<p>To perform the translation you desire with <code>sed<\/code>, simply invoke the following in <code>\/bin\/bash<\/code> with the desired target as your current working directory:<\/p>\n<pre><code>EXTENSION=stdout-captured\nREPLACEMENT=stdout-expected\nfor arg in $(ls *.$EXTENSION); \\\n  do mv $arg $(echo $arg | sed s\/\\\\.$EXTENSION\/.$REPLACEMENT\/); \\\n  done\n<\/code><\/pre>\n<p>&#8230; where <code>$EXTENSION<\/code> and <code>$REPLACEMENT<\/code> are defined for each of the cases that you wish to detect and replace for. This assumes no files contain <code>.$EXTENSION<\/code> anywhere in the remainder of the filename. <code>awk<\/code> is unnecessary for this solution.<\/p>\n<p>For invoking this recursively across multiple directories, consider replacing <code>ls<\/code> with <code>find<\/code> and updating the rule accordingly. Note that <code>find<\/code> <a rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/unixhelp.ed.ac.uk\/CGI\/man-cgi?find\">has its own facilities<\/a> to perform operations on found resources, as well.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<div class=\"mt24\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>            <span class=\"d-none\" itemprop=\"commentCount\"><\/span> <\/p><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>[ad_2]<\/p>\n<p>solved Some troubles with using sed and awk [closed] <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>[ad_1] From what we can discern of this question, you&#8217;re attempting to create a programmatic rule to rename files ending in extensions stdout-captured, stderr-captured, and status-captured (assuming one typo) into files ending in extensions stdout-expected, stderr-expected, and status-expected, respectively. 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