Hi.
What is the easiest way to rename a bunch of files? For example taking all files ending in ".php3" and rename them to end in ".php"
I could write a script to do this, but there is probably an easier way...
Thanks! (17 Replies)
Don't tell me DOS can do something UNIX can't do! I want to copy a number of files from one directory to another, and at the same time change the names. The name changes would be common, e.g., all files starting with the letter 'L' and ending in '30.NEW554', with the copied or new files also... (6 Replies)
I'm working on a project that basically unzips three zip files.
When these unzip they create about 70+ directories with subdirectories of year/month with about 3 to 9 pdf files in each directory.
Basically, I'm needing to figure out a way to zip these pdf files up.
for instance the script... (1 Reply)
Hello
I have a directory structure with year in format 4 digits, e.g 2009, below which is month format 1 or 2 digits, e.g 1 or 12, blow which is day format 1 or 2 digits, e.g 1 or 31.
I want to change the names of lots of directories to the be
Year - 4 digits , e.g 2009 - No change here... (4 Replies)
Hi.
I've got 75 mp3s that have the word 'Émission' in their filename.
They are all in this format:
Émission bla1 bla1.mp3
Émission bla2 bla2.mp3
Émission bla3 bla3.mp3
etc...
I would just like to mass replace 'Émission' by 'Emission'; basically replace 'É' with 'E'. The rest of the... (10 Replies)
Hi.
I don't have any experience with making scripts in bash. I need a simple script to rename all files in a folder to the format file1.avi, file2.avi, file3.avi, and so on.....
Please note that the original files have different filenames and different extensions. But they all need to be... (2 Replies)
Dear friends,
I have created a script to rename all files in a directory by appending the file name with username (who created the file), the date it was created. For example, "apple.doc" should be renamed to "johnFeb23apple.doc" where "john" is the owner and "Feb23" is file created date. It... (4 Replies)
I just can't figure it out , so please just give me a pice of advise how to:
The existing Linux program foo2bar takes as its only argument the name of a single foo file and converts it to an appropriately-named bar file. Provide a script that when executed will run foo2bar against all foo... (4 Replies)
I have a few hundred text files that are currently numbered files. I would like to rename each one with the text from the first line in the file. I would prefer this is perl script rather than a one liner as it wil be after many alterations to the file via an existing script. Any help would be... (1 Reply)
HI,
I have a file serverlist in that all host names are placed.
i have written a small script
#./testping
#! /bin/bash
for i in `cat serverlist`
do
ping $i >> output.txt
done
so now it creates a file output.txt till here fine..
now each time i run this script the output file... (4 Replies)
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LEARN ABOUT DEBIAN
mrename
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)