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Top Forums Shell Programming and Scripting Having trouble with find rename jpg command Post 302880199 by atharvan13 on Wednesday 18th of December 2013 03:33:27 AM
Old 12-18-2013
Having trouble with find rename jpg command
Hi,

I have a large series of directories and subdirectories with many jpgs in them. I need to do two things:

1. Create a copy of each jpg found within it's own subdirectory
2. Rename this copied jpg such that apple.jpg becomes apple_m.jpg

I have tried to run the following commands in order:


//this creates a copy of every jpg found and appends '_m' to the end of it
Code:
find . -name '*.jpg' -execdir cp {} {}_m \;

//now again find everything with 'jpg_m' at the end and rename it as filename_m.jpg
Code:
find . -name '*.jpg_m' -execdir rename -v 's/\.jpg_m/_m\.jpg/' {} \;

However the 2nd command does'nt seem to work, can someone please explain what I'm doing wrong?

Thanks,
Adi
 

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LEARN ABOUT OSX

igrep

IGREP(1)                                                      General Commands Manual                                                     IGREP(1)

NAME

       igrep - search images for matching metadata

SYNOPSIS

       igrep [options] pattern files...

DESCRIPTION

       The igrep utility is invoked as follows:

       igrep [options] pattern filename...

       Where  pattern  is  a POSIX.2 regular expression (just like the Unix/Linux grep(1) command), and filename (and any following names) specify
       images or directories that should be searched. An image file will "match" if any of its metadata contains values contain substring that are
       recognized  regular  expression.  The  image  files  may be of any format recognized by OpenImageIO (i.e., for which ImageInput plugins are
       available).

       Example:

       $ igrep Jack *.jpg
       bar.jpg: Keywords = Carly; Jack
       foo.jpg: Keywords = Jack
       test7.jpg: ImageDescription = Jack on vacation

       For a complete description, see /usr/share/doc/libopenimageio-dev/openimageio.pdf.gz.

OPTIONS

       --help Print help message

       -i     Ignore upper/lower case distinctions

       -v     Invert match (select non-matching files)

       -E     Pattern is an extended regular expression

       -f     Match against file name as well as metadata

       -l     List the matching files (no detail)

       -r     Recurse into directories

       -d     Print directories (when recursive)

       -a     Search all subimages of each file

       SEE ALSO
              iconvert(1), idiff(1), iinfo(1), iprocess(1), iv(1), maketx(1), oiiotool(1).

AUTHOR

       OpenImageIO was written by Larry Gritz and the other authors and contributors.

       This manual page was written by IRIE Shinsuke <irieshinsuke@yahoo.co.jp>, for the Debian project (and may be used by others).

                                                                   May 19, 2012                                                           IGREP(1)
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