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Practice Exercises - Wildcards: Exercise 1

This document provides two exercises for using wildcards in shell scripts. The first exercise has a script rename files ending in ".jpg" to prepend today's date. The second exercise prompts the user for a file extension and prefix, and renames any matching files with that prefix. Both exercises demonstrate using wildcards and date formatting.

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Practice Exercises - Wildcards: Exercise 1

This document provides two exercises for using wildcards in shell scripts. The first exercise has a script rename files ending in ".jpg" to prepend today's date. The second exercise prompts the user for a file extension and prefix, and renames any matching files with that prefix. Both exercises demonstrate using wildcards and date formatting.

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Practice Exercises - Wildcards

Exercise 1:
 
Write a shell script that renames all files in the current directory that end in ".jpg" to begin with 
today's date in the following format:  YYYY­MM­DD.  For example, if a picture of my cat was in 
the current directory and today was October 31, 2016 it would change name from "mycat.jpg" to 
"2016­10­31­mycat.jpg". 
 
Hint: Look at the format options to the date command. 
 
For "extra credit" make sure to gracefully handle instances where there are no ".jpg" files in the 
current directory.  (Hint: Man bash and read the section on the nullglob option.) 
 

Exercise 2:
 
Write a script that renames files based on the file extension.  The script should prompt the user 
for a file extension.  Next, it should ask the user what prefix to prepend to the file name(s).  By 
default the prefix should be the current date in YYYY­MM­DD format.  So, if the user simply 
presses enter the date will be used.  Otherwise, whatever the user entered will be used as the 
prefix.  Next, it should display the original file name and the new name of the file.  Finally, it 
should rename the file. 
 
Example output 1: 
 
Please enter a file extension: jpg 
Please enter a file prefix:  (Press ENTER for 2015­08­10). vacation 
Renaming mycat.jpg to vacation­mycat.jpg. 
 
Example output 2: 
 
Please enter a file extension: jpg 
Please enter a file prefix:  (Press ENTER for 2015­08­10). 
Renaming mycat.jpg to 2015­08­10­mycat.jpg. 

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