Mass file renaming

Indalecio · #1 (**permalink**) 12-29-2006

Hi

Is there any command I could use to rename a bunch of files resident of the same location to their original name plus a fixed text string of my own?

Example:
File1
File2
File3

Output:
File1.txt
File2.txt
File3.txt

This is easy using a "for" loop but what I want is a one-line command. Could you please help me with this one? Cheers.

zazzybob · #2 (**permalink**) 12-29-2006

Code:

$ ls
file1   file2   file3   file4
$ ls file* | xargs -I{}  mv {} {}.txt
$ ls
file1.txt       file2.txt       file3.txt       file4.txt

You may need -i (lower case 'i') with your version of xargs.

Cheers
ZB

kapilraj · #3 (**permalink**) 12-29-2006

ls -1 | awk '{print "mv",$1,$1".txt"}' | ksh

DeepakS · #4 (**permalink**) 12-29-2006

Code:

ls -1 --color=none | awk -F "." '{print "mv","\""$1"\"","\""$1".txt\""}' | bash

Using this will tackle spaces in the filename.

kbrede · #5 (**permalink**) 12-29-2006

If you have perl installed, look for rename or prename on your system. Use the "-n" switch to test, and then "-v" when you want to make the change.

$ rename -n 's/(.*)/$1.txt/' *

#6 (**permalink**) 12-30-2006

i dont know but if you want to be very lazy and have your work done for you u can check this site out www.unixfarmland.com i believe theres a couple of programs there that can do ya job for ya

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