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Top Forums Shell Programming and Scripting Change filename extensions..from command line Post 302490448 by bound4h on Monday 24th of January 2011 09:08:41 PM
Old 01-24-2011
Change filename extensions..from command line
I want to change the extensions of a folder full of files (some of the files are located in subfolders as well) to another extension, but instead of replacing the files I want the new files to be copied into a newly created folder.

Here is the folder structure:

/Downloads/3eb
/Downloads/3eb/album1
/Downloads/3eb/album2
/Downloads/3eb/album3
/Downloads/3eb/newdir

In each album1 folder there are .flac files, and I want to convert them all to .mov files and copied to /Downloads/3eb/newdir. Does that make sense?

I have tried the following command ran after cd'ing to /Downloads/3eb, but it returns an error (to follow):
Code:
for file in album*/*.flac ; do mv "$file" "newdir/`echo $file | sed 's/\(.*\.\)flac/\1mov/'`" ; done

The error:
Code:
mv: cannot rename 'Third Eye Blind - Ursa Major 2009/05 - One in Ten.flac': No such file or directory

Can anyone help?
 

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RMF(1)                                                               [nmh-1.5]                                                              RMF(1)

NAME

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SYNOPSIS

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DESCRIPTION

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