I have a directory which contains multiple files with .txt extension, i want to rename all these file to .bak extension using find command, this is what i've tried, please help me to correct this :
seems to me like it is not the standard way of doing this, is there any other way using combination of find and sed??
I would like to replace multiple underscores with hyphens but I have 26,000 files to rename. They are all in one file structure and multiple sub-directories.
It would be much simpler if I had a script to do it. Here are some samples of the file names:
Example 1... (3 Replies)
hi
I have files named
123_234_aaa.jpg
234_231_345.jpg
and i wish to rename these files to
aaa.jpg and 345.jpg. i.e inital number,_,next number should be removed form the file name. Please let me know how can i do it. (2 Replies)
I need help finding a file through terminal and then renaming it automatically.
Here is what I have so far to find the file:
cd /User/Applications
find . */SourceM.app/banner.png | while read line; do mv "$line" banner-.png; done
I want the script to rename the file "banner.png" to... (6 Replies)
Hello,
I have one directory with 3 level sub-directories, and about houndard files under those directories. I need a shell script to rename all patern mateched directories and files.
For example: the patern is AA in the directory or file name.
Orignal directory:... (2 Replies)
I have this directory tree under /apps/myapp/data:
imageshack.us/photo/my-images/703/foldersc.png
How to recursively rename ONLY directories with 5 digits (00000, 00100, 00200,..., 00007, 00107,...)?
I want to add to their name two more zeros:
Before: 00107
After: 0000107
Thanks in... (2 Replies)
I want to find a file say IIFT and check its size is zero or not. If its zero then I have to rename anothe file say WWFT , which is in another folder to WWFT$Todaysdate.
I tried below command:
cd dir2 (*File WWFT is in dir2)
find dir/ -type f -name 'IIFT*' -size 0 -exec mv WWFT... (3 Replies)
Hi,
Need your help in this.
I have an input file that has multiple enrollment_number, somewhat like
1234567
8901234
9856321
6732187
7623465
Now i have to search and delete these enrollment_number recursively from all the files that are within multiple sub-directories of a... (10 Replies)
hi,
Need your help.
I need to write a script for below..
i have two files in directory /home/abc as below:
Watch_20140203_abc.dat
Watchnow_20140203_abc.dat
I have to copy this file from
/home/abc to /home01/home02
after that i have to rename the date part in above two files... (1 Reply)
Hi,
How can I use find command to search string/pattern in a file recursively?
What I tried:
find . -type f -exec cat {} | grep "make" \;
Output:
grep: find: ;: No such file or directory
missing argument to `-exec'
And this:
find . -type f -exec cat {} \; -exec grep "make" {} \;... (12 Replies)
Hello,
I supposed that it was working fine but now I see that it's not working as expected.
I am running under ubuntu14.04, trusty.
My plan was to search folderA and all subdirectories and move any txt file to destination folder, folderB :
find /home/user/folderA/ -type f -iname "*.txt"... (0 Replies)
Discussion started by: baris35
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LEARN ABOUT DEBIAN
prename
RENAME(1) Perl Programmers Reference Guide RENAME(1)NAME
rename - renames multiple files
SYNOPSIS
rename [ -v ] [ -n ] [ -f ] perlexpr [ files ]
DESCRIPTION
"rename" renames the filenames supplied according to the rule specified as the first argument. The perlexpr argument is a Perl expression
which is expected to modify the $_ string in Perl for at least some of the filenames specified. If a given filename is not modified by the
expression, it will not be renamed. If no filenames are given on the command line, filenames will be read via standard input.
For example, to rename all files matching "*.bak" to strip the extension, you might say
rename 's/.bak$//' *.bak
To translate uppercase names to lower, you'd use
rename 'y/A-Z/a-z/' *
OPTIONS -v, --verbose
Verbose: print names of files successfully renamed.
-n, --no-act
No Action: show what files would have been renamed.
-f, --force
Force: overwrite existing files.
ENVIRONMENT
No environment variables are used.
AUTHOR
Larry Wall
SEE ALSO mv(1), perl(1)DIAGNOSTICS
If you give an invalid Perl expression you'll get a syntax error.
BUGS
The original "rename" did not check for the existence of target filenames, so had to be used with care. I hope I've fixed that (Robin
Barker).
perl v5.14.2 2014-09-26 RENAME(1)