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Top Forums UNIX for Dummies Questions & Answers Editing multiple file names in one go Post 302139288 by KeesH on Friday 5th of October 2007 07:22:52 AM
Old 10-05-2007
Editing multiple file names in one go
Hi there,

I have a folder full of pdf's and I've run a compression on the to reduce the size, the output of the compress places a '-o' in the name of the file.

Before 12345.pdf
After 12345-o.pdf

Now I've got around 50000 files that I need to change back to the previous name, is there a script that can be used to do this?

Any help is much appriciated.

Regards
Kees
 

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PDFCONCAT(1)						      General Commands Manual						      PDFCONCAT(1)

NAME

       pdfconcat - program to concatenate several PDF files.

SYNOPSIS

       pdfconcat -o outfile.pdf input1.pdf [inputN.pdf ...]

DESCRIPTION

       This manual page documents briefly the pdfconcat command.

       pdfconcat  is  a small and fast command-line utility written in ANSI C that can concatenate (merge) several PDF files into a long PDF docu-
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OPTIONS

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SEE ALSO

       imgmerge(1), xpaint(1).

AUTHOR

       pdfconcat was written by Peter Szabo <pts@fazekas.hu>.

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