recursively renaming files

catgovind · #1 (**permalink**) 08-18-2008

Hi,

I'm new linux user.I need to recursively rename all files .I used this command "rename .MP3\;1 .MP3 *.MP3\;1" to rename files in one directory.But Inside this directory lots of sub directories there. Please help me out how to rename all files recursively?

Thanks
Govindan

Smiling Dragon · #2 (**permalink**) 08-18-2008

Quote:

Originally Posted by catgovind

I'm new linux user.I need to recursively rename all files .I used this command "rename .MP3\;1 .MP3 *.MP3\;1" to rename files in one directory.But Inside this directory lots of sub directories there. Please help me out how to rename all files recursively?

I'm not familier with the 'rename' command, it could be that there's an optional commandline switch to recurse through subdirs. If not, this should do the trick:

Code:

find . -type f -name '*.MP3;1' | while read filename ; do mv "$filename" "`echo $filename" | sed 's/MP3\;1$/MP3/'` ; done

catgovind · #3 (**permalink**) 08-20-2008

Its worked for my problem. [

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