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Top Forums Shell Programming and Scripting How to rename multiple file names? Post 302943226 by sea on Wednesday 6th of May 2015 11:33:54 AM
Old 05-06-2015
What i do, looks like:
(might be a little overkill for such a simple substitution, but for certain sed commands, this preview is just 'required' (feels alot more saver)!
(as in, i would had deleted (renamed to empty) quite a few files already)
Code:
:) vid $ cmd=tui-echo
+ vid $ for f in sc* ;do $cmd "$f" "${f/screen/Desktop}"; done
# | screen-.mkv                                                                                     Desktop-.mkv | #
# | screen-out.0.mkv                                                                           Desktop-out.0.mkv | #
# | screen-out.10.mkv                                                                         Desktop-out.10.mkv | #
# | screen-out.11.mkv                                                                         Desktop-out.11.mkv | #
# | screen-out.11.webm                                                                       Desktop-out.11.webm | #
# | screen-out.1.mkv                                                                           Desktop-out.1.mkv | #
# | screen-out.2.mkv                                                                           Desktop-out.2.mkv | #
# | screen-out.3.mkv                                                                           Desktop-out.3.mkv | #
# | screen-out.4.mkv                                                                           Desktop-out.4.mkv | #
# | screen-out.5.mkv                                                                           Desktop-out.5.mkv | #
# | screen-out.6.mkv                                                                           Desktop-out.6.mkv | #
# | screen-out.7.mkv                                                                           Desktop-out.7.mkv | #
# | screen-out.8.mkv                                                                           Desktop-out.8.mkv | #
# | screen-out.9.mkv                                                                           Desktop-out.9.mkv | #
# | screen-out.mkv                                                                               Desktop-out.mkv | #
+ vid $ cmd=mv
+ vid $ for f in sc* ;do $cmd "$f" "${f/screen/Desktop}"; done
✔ vid $ ll D*{mkv,webm}
-rw-rw-r--. 1 sea sea 1.8M 28. Mär 23:44 Desktop-.mkv
-rw-rw-r--. 1 sea sea 593M  7. Mär 23:17 Desktop-out.0.mkv
-rw-rw-r--. 1 sea sea 267K  4. Mai 10:05 Desktop-out.10.mkv
-rw-rw-r--. 1 sea sea  15M  4. Mai 10:10 Desktop-out.11.mkv
-rw-rw-r--. 1 sea sea  13M  4. Mai 11:15 Desktop-out.11.webm
-rw-rw-r--. 1 sea sea 318K 27. Mär 16:39 Desktop-out.1.mkv
-rw-rw-r--. 1 sea sea 1.1M 28. Mär 08:04 Desktop-out.2.mkv
-rw-rw-r--. 1 sea sea 2.5M 28. Mär 12:29 Desktop-out.3.mkv
-rw-rw-r--. 1 sea sea 1.5M 28. Mär 12:35 Desktop-out.4.mkv
-rw-rw-r--. 1 sea sea 805K 28. Mär 17:31 Desktop-out.5.mkv
-rw-rw-r--. 1 sea sea 789K 28. Mär 17:42 Desktop-out.6.mkv
-rw-rw-r--. 1 sea sea  73M 30. Mär 11:13 Desktop-out.7.mkv
-rw-rw-r--. 1 sea sea  98M  4. Apr 11:23 Desktop-out.8.mkv
-rw-rw-r--. 1 sea sea  19M 30. Mär 12:26 Desktop-out.9.mkv
-rw-rw-r--. 1 sea sea  70M 27. Mär 15:11 Desktop-out.mkv
:) vid $

hth & hf


EDIT:
What i'm saying is:
The more files you have (to rename), the more important it is to PRE-view the changes that will be done.
And having the strings aligned left and right of the screen/window just helps to compare, rather than having a list that is just space delimited. imho

All you need to do is to define a 'prefix' string, and add it in front of RudiC's example.
Last edited by sea; 05-06-2015 at 12:43 PM..
 

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