I have bunch of directories such as
2013_03_12_18_26_am
2013_03_12_18_26_cu
2013_03_12_18_26_ig
2013_03_12_18_26_mdf
2013_03_12_18_26_pih
2013_03_12_18_26_tn
2013_03_12_18_26_an
2013_03_12_18_26_cv
2013_03_12_18_26_ik
2013_03_12_18_26_mhr
2013_03_12_18_26_pnb
2013_03_12_18_26_to
What I want to do is rename them to their last two characters, example:
2013_03_12_18_26_am to am,
I know I can do this one by one mv 2013_03_12_18_26_am am but that would take a long time. Can this be accomplis from the shell script?
I want everything after the last "_" to be the name of the new directory.
This assume all (and only all) of your folders are in one directory. So be careful...
Original:
marks-mac-pro:test mstanislav$ ls
2013_03_12_18_26_am 2013_03_12_18_26_an 2013_03_12_18_26_cu 2013_03_12_18_26_cv 2013_03_12_18_26_ig 2013_03_12_18_26_ik 2013_03_12_18_26_mdf 2013_03_12_18_26_mhr 2013_03_12_18_26_pih 2013_03_12_18_26_pnb 2013_03_12_18_26_tn 2013_03_12_18_26_to
Shell Script:
marks-mac-pro:test mstanislav$ for i in `ls .`; do NEW=`echo $i | cut -d_ -f6`; mv $i $NEW; done
Result:
marks-mac-pro:test mstanislav$ ls
am an cu cv ig ik mdf mhr pih pnb tn to
Please test this before doing it on the real data, just to make sure. Again, only do this in a directory with JUST the folders you want to rename, or re-write the first part for the ls to be more specific.