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Top Forums Shell Programming and Scripting Renaming files as per directory Post 302177683 by dotancohen on Saturday 22nd of March 2008 03:54:59 PM
Old 03-22-2008
Renaming files as per directory
I have many files with duplicate names spread out over several tens of directories. I would like to mv them to the parent directory, but to avoid conflicting filenames I'd like to prefix each filename with the name of the directory it was in.

For example, if this is my directory structure:
/pictures/dotan/1.jpg
/pictures/dotan/2.jpg
/pictures/dotan/3.jpg
/pictures/ety/1.jpg
/pictures/ety/2.jpg
/pictures/ety/3.jpg

Then I'd like to end up with this:

/pictures/dotan-1.jpg
/pictures/dotan-2.jpg
/pictures/dotan-3.jpg
/pictures/ety-1.jpg
/pictures/ety-2.jpg
/pictures/ety-3.jpg

Assuming that pwd is /pictures, I figure that I'll need two expressions, one to rename and another to move. However, I don't know where to start. I've googled the cp (for renaming) and file (for going through all the directories recursively) however I don't know how to access the name of the directories. As for recusively moving the files afterwards, I will probably use file again.
 

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MRENAME(1)						      General Commands Manual							MRENAME(1)

NAME

       mrename - program to rename files

SYNOPSIS

       mrename 'pattern' prefix [option]

DESCRIPTION

       This  manual  page  documents  briefly the mrename command.  This manual page was written for the Debian GNU/Linux distribution because the
       original program does not have a manual page.

       mrename is a tool for easy and automatic renaming of many files.  The 'pattern' is the pattern to search files to rename (quoted  to  avoid
       that  bash  resolve  it),  and prefix is the prefix that will be added to the name of each file. The two alternative options for copying or
       moving files in the new name are explained below.  All parameters are needed, and you have to stay and launch the script in the same direc-
       tory of the files to be renamed. The program should be able to write in this directory.

OPTIONS

       There are only the following three options.

       -c     The option -c will copy each file with the new filename.

       -m     The option -m will move each file in the new filename.

       -h     Display help.

EXAMPLE

       If  you	have  a  directory  with two jpeg images prof.jpg and forp.jpg and you want to add them a prefix like item0, item1 etc..  (that is
       item0prof.jpg, item1forp.jpg etc..) do this:

	  cd /path/to/the/images
	  mrename '*.jpg' item -c

       to copy each matching file into another with the new name

	  mrename '*.jpg' item -m

       to rename each file without keeping a copy with the previous name

Word-Wide-Web:
       http://alfalinux.sourceforge.net/mrename.php3

AUTHOR
:
       Giancarlo -rofus- Erra
       e-mail: rofus@mindless.com

       This manual page was written by Dr. Guenter Bechly <gbechly@debian.org>, for the Debian GNU/Linux system (but may be used by others). It is
       distributed under the GPL just like mrename itself.

								 October  22, 2000							MRENAME(1)
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