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Top Forums Shell Programming and Scripting sed to rename files in a folder - please help with script Post 302526787 by ctsgnb on Wednesday 1st of June 2011 12:48:39 PM
Old 06-01-2011
Quote:
Originally Posted by michaelrozar17
We would use mv command to move/rename files. Try the below script.
Code:
for file in ls -1 home/bloomy/path/wav/* # FYI  ls -one(1) not alphabet L
do
    NEW_FILE=$(echo $file | sed 's/.._/_bloomy_/')
    mv "$file" "$NEW_FILE"
    echo "Moved file: $file"
done

Watch out

The Code provided by Michaelrozar does not change the indexing of the file so that
chp01_00001.wav
and
chp02_00001.wav

will be respectively moved

from chp01_00001.wav to chp_bloomy_00001.wav
and
from chp02_00001.wav to chp_bloomy_00001.wav

... Same target name !!! This will overwrite the initial copy of the chp01_00001.wav ...
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NAME

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SECTION

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SYNOPSIS

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