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I have the following list of files:

Dorn_Triatomine_A5201_sequence_1_unmappedforTdim_tdim.alleles.tsv Dorn_Triatomine_A5201_sequence_1_unmappedforTdim_tdim.matches.tsv Dorn_Triatomine_A5201_sequence_1_unmappedforTdim_tdim.snps.tsv Dorn_Triatomine_A5201_sequence_1_unmappedforTdim_tdim.tags.tsv Dorn_Triatomine_T9252_sequence_1_unmappedforTdim_tdim.alleles.tsv Dorn_Triatomine_T9252_sequence_1_unmappedforTdim_tdim.matches.tsv Dorn_Triatomine_T9252_sequence_1_unmappedforTdim_tdim.snps.tsv Dorn_Triatomine_T9252_sequence_1_unmappedforTdim_tdim.tags.tsv

I would like to eliminate some of the repetitive string and rename the file as follow:

A5201_tdim.alleles.tsv A5201_tdim.matches.tsv A5201_tdim.snps.tsv

I tried using:

mv Dorn_Triatomine_*_sequence_1_unmappedforTdim_tdim.tags.tsv *_tdim.tags.tsv

What would be the simplest way to achieve this task?

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This script ought to do it:

#!/bin/sh for f in Dorn_Triatom* ; do mv "$f" `echo "$f" | sed -e 's/Dorn_Triatomine_//' -e 's/sequence_1_unmappedforTdim_//'` done
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  • NB I assume the two strings after s/ are the ones you want to remove Commented May 12, 2015 at 21:47
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    Please note that it would give an error if there is no file starts with Dorn_Triatom and placing $f inside of double quotes would be safer in case of spaces in file names. Commented May 12, 2015 at 21:54
  • @LuciaO if this is what works for you please remember to accept the answer with the tick mark. Commented May 12, 2015 at 22:26
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Using grep with PCRE to get the new file name:

#!/bin/bash for file in *.tsv; do newname="$(grep -Po '^[^_]*_[^_]*_\K[^_]*_'<<<"$file")$(grep -Po '.*_\K.*$' <<<"$file")" mv "$file" "$newname" done

newname is combined of output of two grep operations:

  • grep -Po '^[^_]*_[^_]*_\K[^_]*_'<<<"$file" will output the A5201_ like strings from each filename

  • $(grep -Po '.*_\K.*$' <<<"$file") will match the last portion of the filename, after last _

  • $() is the bash command substitution pattern.

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