i have a folder that contains 100's of files: abc, bca, def, ghi....
i want to rename abc with 1, bca with 2, def with 3, ghi with 4 and so on.
my way, i create a file.txt with contents:
1
2
3
4
i use while loop to rename my files. without using file.txt, i just want to rename abc with... (4 Replies)
Hi everyone.
I'm in need of a solution where i need to rename a folder to a name that's inside an XML file in that folder.
OS is Ubuntu 9.10 with Gnome.
I've tried using grep, sed and xpath, but can't seem to find a solution.
This is the simplified folder structure:
FOLDER-NAME
-... (4 Replies)
hello, I need to build a shell script that receives the folder to copy by parameter and copy all files except thumb.db to another folder and rename them like, file.jpg renamed to file_bb1.jpg.
can someone help me
Thanks (4 Replies)
Hi,
I want to rename all the files (more than 100 files) in a fodler to another folder with date&time stamp.
foe eg,
file1.dat
file2.dat
file3.dat
..
to be renamed as
file1100629_16_30_15.txt (yy-mon-dd_hh_mi_ss)
file1100629_16_30_16.txt
..
so on (2 Replies)
Is there a way to use Vim or Ex to rename all files in a folder? For example if i have a folder with Apples1.txt, Apples2.txt, Apples3.txt, could I rename all files so they are Oranges1.txt, Oranges2.txt, Oranges3.txt ?
I know with :bufdo %s/apples/oranges/g|update you can do this for inside... (5 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)
Hello,
I am new to shell scripting and stuck on renaming files in a folder. The files have the format
chp01_00001.wav
chp01_00002.wav
....
chp02_00001.wav
chp02_00002.wav
....
but I want them to have the following names:
chp_bloomy_00001.wav
chp_bloomy_00002.wav
chp_bloomy_00003.wav... (8 Replies)
Hi,
I'm really new at this but have several hundred files that i need to do something with and save with a new name. The files are 26 columns wide. I want to select some for renaming. I've figured out what to do to each file ("file-1.CSV"| grep -v "=" | cut -f 1-4,9,14,15,18,19,20,21,22,24,26... (2 Replies)
hi guys
i have a group of directory like these
p1( 15 - 16 )
p2( 17 -15 )
p1 ( 14 - 20 )
p2 ( 13 -17 )
..
.
.
directories contain numbers represent time
i want to rename all directories and change all numbers in directories' name .
for example
p1( 15 -16 ) will change to... (16 Replies)
I want to rename all files and folder containing underscore in name and replace underscore with hyphen.
Currently I am using following code,
rename '_' '-' */*/*
It was working but now it is showing me "Argument list too long"
Please help! (2 Replies)
Discussion started by: opticalpigion
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LEARN ABOUT CENTOS
rename
RENAME(1) User Commands RENAME(1)NAME
rename - rename files
SYNOPSIS
rename [options] expression replacement file...
DESCRIPTION
rename will rename the specified files by replacing the first occurrence of expression in their name by replacement.
OPTIONS -v, --verbose
Give visual feedback which files where renamed, if any.
-V, --version
Display version information and exit.
-s, --symlink
Peform rename on symlink target
-h, --help
Display help text and exit.
EXAMPLES
Given the files foo1, ..., foo9, foo10, ..., foo278, the commands
rename foo foo0 foo?
rename foo foo0 foo??
will turn them into foo001, ..., foo009, foo010, ..., foo278. And
rename .htm .html *.htm
will fix the extension of your html files.
WARNING
The renaming has no safeguards. If the user has permission to rewrite file names, the command will perform the action without any ques-
tions. For example, the result can be quite drastic when the command is run as root in the /lib directory. Always make a backup before
running the command, unless you truly know what you are doing.
SEE ALSO mmv(1), mv(1)AVAILABILITY
The rename command is part of the util-linux package and is available from ftp://ftp.kernel.org/pub/linux/utils/util-linux/.
util-linux June 2011 RENAME(1)