Rename File Name In Putty
Raquel Carrin
The commands to move, copy and delete files and folders in the command line, are actually pretty easy to remember. In this video, we'll move and rename files. In the next video we'll copy and delete files.
The mv command is also used to rename items. You simply include the new file name in the location parameter. For example, let's rename the Test.txt file to Testing.txt. I'll move back into the Test directory by typing "cd Test/" and pressing Enter.
You can even move the file to a different directory and rename it at the same time. To demonstrate, I'll move the Testing.txt file up one directory, and rename it to Tested.txt all in a single command.
Renaming a folder containing files may cause problems if that folder contains files that are required by a program. For example, if the program is looking for a folder named "data" and you rename it to "other" the program would no longer know where data files are located.
Renaming a directory containing files may cause problems if that directory contains files required by a program. For example, if the program is looking for a directory named "data" and you rename it to "other," the program would no longer know where data files are located.
[Also: I don't have enough reputation yet to comment, so in response to Nikhil's question regarding the use of /g in rename 's/old_string/new_string/g' (posed in the comments for another answer above):
Use the g modifier to perform a 'global' substitution (that is, to substitute new_string for old_string as many times as old_string occurs). This shouldn't be necessary in my answer because the rename will be applied to all files specified with *. See for a concise explanation of this and other modifiers.]
If you need to do automated tasks with PSFTP, you would probably prefer to specify a set of commands in advance and have them executed automatically. The -b option allows you to do this. You use it with a file name containing batch commands. For example, you might create a file called myscript.scr containing lines like this:
Most PSFTP commands are considered by the PSFTP command interpreter as a sequence of words, separated by spaces. For example, the command ren oldfilename newfilename splits up into three words: ren (the command name), oldfilename (the name of the file to be renamed), and newfilename (the new name to give the file).
Sometimes you will need to specify file names that contain spaces. In order to do this, you can surround the file name with double quotes. This works equally well for local file names and remote file names:
If you need to use a double quote (on some types of remote system, such as Unix, you are allowed to use double quotes in file names), you can do this by doubling it. This works both inside and outside double quotes. For example, this command
PSFTP maintains a notion of your "working directory" on the server. This is the default directory that other commands will operate on. For example, if you type get filename.dat then PSFTP will look for filename.dat in your remote working directory on the server.
As well as having a working directory on the remote server, PSFTP also has a working directory on your local machine (just like any other Windows process). This is the default local directory that other commands will operate on. For example, if you type get filename.dat then PSFTP will save the resulting file as filename.dat in your local working directory.
First off, there really is no official convention for naming keys. They filenames don't matter. They are only important to you, who has to manage them. The software is only concerned with the content of files.
As heavyd mentioned, I think it's really an good idea to stick to the syntax of the ssh-keygen tool. So I use this (except for the .pub for public keys, because this file extension is used by Microsoft Publisher and could be interpreted wrong on Windows Systems - there is also an own icon for MS Publisher) and combine it with the convention of PuTTy (.ppk) and the conditions above. Therefore a possible name scheme could be:
PuTTy uses .ppk for private keys and the ssh-keygen tool comes with .pub for public keys here, which I don't want to use because of MS Publisher. Therefore I stick to PuTTys .ppk, differ just a little bit from ssh-keygens .pub and use both "conventions" as basis to build the others close to this names. So this information is added as "file extension":
Extensions are part of a file's name. And if you want to change the extension (or the name), you'd use the mv command. mv stands for "move" and is the standard command on Linux for moving and renaming files.
The aforementioned one-liner is a for loop that finds every file ending in ".txt". Then, it recursively performs a rename operation on all matched file names and replaces the ".txt" extension with ".pdf". The "done" at the end of the command indicates that the loop has finished. Simple!
Open the file manager installed on your machine and select a file by highlighting it. Then, right-click and select Rename. In the field, you can modify the name of the file, including its extension. Proceed by changing the file extensions and then press Enter to finish.
Many Linux file managers also provide shortcuts you can use to save an extra click. For example, on GNOME (Nautilus file manager), you can press F2 while highlighting a file to quickly enter the rename function, eliminating the need to right-click. Similarly, on KDE Plasma (Dolphin) and XFCE (Thunar), you can hit the F2 key to change file extensions quickly.
As of MySQL 8.0.13, you can rename tables locked with a LOCK TABLES statement, provided that they are locked with a WRITE lock or are the product of renaming WRITE-locked tables from earlier steps in a multiple-table rename operation. For example, this is permitted:
Using this method to move all tables from one database to a different one in effect renames the database (an operation for which MySQL has no single statement), except that the original database continues to exist, albeit with no tables.
Like RENAME TABLE, ALTER TABLE ... RENAME can also be used to move a table to a different database. Regardless of the statement used, if the rename operation would move the table to a database located on a different file system, the success of the outcome is platform specific and depends on the underlying operating system calls used to move table files.
Foreign key constraint names that point to the renamed table are automatically updated unless there is a conflict, in which case the statement fails with an error. A conflict occurs if the renamed constraint name already exists. In such cases, you must drop and re-create the foreign keys for them to function properly.
rename command in Linux is used to rename the named files according to the regular expression perlexpr. It can change the name of the multiple files. If the user will not specify any file names on the command line with this command then it will take the file name from the standard input.
If you want to forcefully move files or directories and overwrite paths that already exist, you can use the -f flag. This is effective for overwriting old, stale files or directories with new ones with the same name.
Help!!
I have installed Putty Connection manger but when i open a single or multiple session i0/they topens in a seperate putty window. I have read the help files and have followed the recommendations but does not correct this problem anybody have any suggestions. Thanks for the help.
it seems that putty is unable to create folders. You could create and start a vb script instead putty directly to check and create folders before starting putty by script. With vbs you can read ini.file or registry to find out existing hosts or to keep script simple create the &H folder manually.
I have windows 7 on my system, initially putty CM used to work fine for me. but recently a problem started when I try logging in using the auto log option. The password is getting displayed at the user name tab and then prompting to enter password !!! anyone know how to solve this problem?
Every argument to mget is treated as the name of a file to fetch (unlike get, which will interpret at most one argument like that, and a second argument will be treated as an alternative name under which to store the retrieved file), or a wildcard expression matching more than one file.
When you want putty to log all your session output, you have to change the default settings. This is pretty simple: open putty and go to Session->Logging. Select all session output and specify a log file.
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