-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On Wed, 24 Dec 2003 17:30:45 +0200, Aaron <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > has in it files 345.ly, 355.ly etc etc. > > I want to make the file name from > from these lines in the file below (and all files in the directory) > e8 g8 | > b4 b8. b16 b8. a16 | > b4 a4 a8 e8 | > --------------------------------------------- > so that the name will become: e8g8b4b8.b16b8.a16b4a4a8e8.ly > ----------------------------------------------
You can use the tr command to get what you want: #! /bin/sh -ex for FL in [1-9]*ly do NNM=`tr -d " |\012" < $FL` # drop all unwanted chars mv $FL ${NNM}.ly done ########## end of script ########## Ehud. - -- Ehud Karni Tel: +972-3-7966-561 /"\ Mivtach - Simon Fax: +972-3-7966-667 \ / ASCII Ribbon Campaign Insurance agencies (USA) voice mail and X Against HTML Mail http://www.mvs.co.il FAX: 1-815-5509341 / \ GnuPG: 98EA398D <http://www.keyserver.net/> Better Safe Than Sorry -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Comment: use http://www.keyserver.net/ to get my key (and others) iD8DBQE/6ynlLFvTvpjqOY0RAnWUAJ9fUK+66/xGfq1Alpqk8rxB9mfw0QCeOrVY kNFi8Z4vyX3BaDIszIaE2qU= =J4Kq -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- ================================================================= To unsubscribe, send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the word "unsubscribe" in the message body, e.g., run the command echo unsubscribe | mail [EMAIL PROTECTED]