Rename part of multiple files - Shell Programming and Scripting

sajjad02 · #1 (**permalink**) 02-21-2005

Hello, I have about 200 files named like script1234_test.sh script3434_test.sh and so on... I am trying to write a script that will rename those files from test to dev, keeping the rest of the file name intact. Could anyone help? Thanks.

bhargav · #2 (**permalink**) 02-21-2005

try this ... NOT tested.

Code:

for filename in `ls script*_test*sh`
do
   newfilename=`echo $filename | sed 's/test/dev/'
   mv $filename $newfilename
  
done

vgersh99 · #3 (**permalink**) 02-21-2005

UUOls

Code:

for filename in script*_test*sh

Ygor · #4 (**permalink**) 02-21-2005

for i in script*_test.sh; do mv $i ${i%test.sh}dev.sh; done

sajjad02 · #5 (**permalink**) 02-22-2005

Thanks for your input... This works...

for old in *test*.sh
do
new=`echo $old | sed 's/test/dev/g'`
mv $old $new
done

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