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Text renaming?

Discussion in 'BlackHat Lounge' started by hawke, Oct 9, 2009.

  1. Oct 9, 2009
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    hawke

    hawke Power Member

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    Let's say I have a list like this
    Code:
    alt.xxxxxxx.xxxxxxx.xxxxxx.xxxxxxxxx
alt.xxxxxxx.xxxxxxx.xxxxxx.xxxxxxxxxxxxxx
alt.xxxxxxx.xxxxxxx.xxxxxx.xxxxxxxxxxxx
alt.xxxxxxx.xxxxxxx.xxxxxx.xxxxxxxxx
alt.xxxxxxx.xxxxxxx.xxxxxx.xxxxxxxxxxx
alt.xxxxxxx.xxxxxxx.xxxxxx.xxxxxx
alt.xxxxxxx.xxxxxxx.xxxxxx.xxx
alt.xxxxxxx.xxxxxxx.xxxxxx.xxx.xxxxx
    And it needs to look like this
    Code:
    GrpList_0000=alt.xxxxxxx.xxxxxxx.xxxxxx.xxxxxxxxxx
GrpList_0001=alt.xxxxxxxx.xxxxxxx.xxxxxx.xxxxxxxx
    They need to be in sequential order, is there an automated way of renaming these? As i have nearly 100,000 lines to do this for :(
     
  2. Oct 10, 2009
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    twoj04

    twoj04 Power Member

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    There might be a simpler way to do this, but this is the best way I would do it, and it won't take long.

    Replace all "alt." with GrpList_" then open up excel and start with 0000 in a column, use the fill function to go numerically down until whatever you need (Ex. 1,472). Then you could either copy/paste the column or open up the whole thing in a .csv (placing commas in between by using replace all function again).

    Sorry if this sounds confusing, I had to do quite a bit of this type of stuff when starting off some projects a year or so back.
     
  3. Oct 10, 2009
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    xcubic

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    Pm me and I'll make you a quick and small tool to do it... ;)
     
  4. Oct 10, 2009
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    bpaw

    bpaw Junior Member

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    If you have access to a Unix/Linux shell, you can use the following awk command to give you your desired results:

    Code:
    awk 'BEGIN {OFS=""} {printf "%s%04d%s","GrpList_",""NR-1"","="$1"\n"}' filenamehere
    The file "filenamehere" contains:
    alt.xxxxxxx.xxxxxxx.xxxxxx.xxxxxxxxx
    alt.xxxxxxx.xxxxxxx.xxxxxx.xxxxxxxxxxxxxx
    alt.xxxxxxx.xxxxxxx.xxxxxx.xxxxxxxxxxxx
    alt.xxxxxxx.xxxxxxx.xxxxxx.xxxxxxxxx
    alt.xxxxxxx.xxxxxxx.xxxxxx.xxxxxxxxxxx
    alt.xxxxxxx.xxxxxxx.xxxxxx.xxxxxx
    alt.xxxxxxx.xxxxxxx.xxxxxx.xxx
    alt.xxxxxxx.xxxxxxx.xxxxxx.xxx.xxxxx