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How can I copy a file in a bash script and rename?
The script checks if the input file that receives as input exists. In that case, it makes a temporary copy of the file and then renames such copy replacing the first dot in its name with the string _copy. I hope it is what you needed. Thanks for contributing an answer to Unix & Linux Stack Exchange!
How to copy and rename file with for loop in Linux?
In Debian Linux and derivatives there is a rename utility that simplifies this to: Check man rename or rename –help to see how to use the implementation you have. Sometimes the utility is called rename.pl instead of simply rename. Can omit the for loop altogeather if you have perl packages installed.
Is it better to rename a file or copy?
Otherwise ( pax isn’t usually available by default), surely it is better to do a copy then a rename: This way there is not a different process started for each file.
How to extract filename and extension in Bash?
In bash, provided you files names have no spaces: You could use a script like the below. You would just need to change the date options to match the format you wanted. There is a proper way to split the filename and the extension: Extract filename and extension in Bash
How to rename files in a UNIX directory?
What I was thinking is that this would take the files in the current working directory as the arguments and check every file (represented by $count or the file at “count”). Then for every file, it would check if it ended in .txt and if it did it would change every underscore to a hyphen using sed.
How can I change the name of a file?
I have been trying to write a script that will take the current working directory, scan every file and check if it is a .txt file. Then take every file (that’s a text file), and check to see if it contains an underscore anywhere in its name and if it does to change the underscore to a hyphen.
How to split filename and extension in Bash?
There is a proper way to split the filename and the extension: Extract filename and extension in Bash –archive ensures that the files are copied with the same ownership and permissions. foo {bar,baz} is expanded into foobar foobaz.