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Top Forums UNIX for Dummies Questions & Answers Bulk changing of file names using Terminal in OS X Post 302963442 by RudiC on Wednesday 30th of December 2015 12:59:20 PM
Old 12-30-2015
Try also
Code:
find . -name "photo*.jpg" | while read FN; do echo mv "$FN" "${FN/photo/picture}"; done

Remove the echo when happy with the result.

Double quotes (thanks, Aia!) in the mv command prevent problems when file names contain e.g. spaces.
Last edited by RudiC; 12-30-2015 at 02:53 PM..
 

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LEARN ABOUT DEBIAN

creepy

CREEPY(1)						      General Commands Manual							 CREEPY(1)

NAME

       CREEPY -  A geolocation information aggregator

DESCRIPTION

       creepy  is  an application that allows you to gather geolocation related information about users from social networking platforms and image
       hosting services. The information is presented in a map inside the application where all the retrieved data is shown accompanied with rele-
       vant information (i.e. what was posted from that specific location) to provide context to the presentation.

FEATURES

       Map providers available :
	      Google Maps - Virtual Maps - Open Street Maps

       Location information retieval from :

       Twitter's tweet location:
	      Coordinates when tweet was posted from mobile device.

	      Place  (geographical  name)  derived  from  users ip when posting on twitter's web interface. Place gets translated into coordinates
	      using geonames.com"

	      Bounding Box derived from users ip when posting on twitter's web interface.The less accurate source , a corner of the  bounding  box
	      is selected randomly.

	      Geolocation information accessible through image hosting services API

	      EXIF tags from the photos posted.

       Social networking platforms currently supported:
	      Twitter

	      Foursquare (only checkins that are posted to twitter).

       Image hosting services currently supported :
	      flickr - information retrieved from API

	      twitpic.com - information retrieved from API and photo exif tags

	      yfrog.com - information retrieved from photo exif tags

	      img.ly - information retrieved from photo exif tags

	      plixi.com - information retrieved from photo exif tags

	      twitrpix.com - information retrieved from photo exif tags

	      foleext.com - information retrieved from photo exif tags

	      shozu.com - information retrieved from photo exif tags

	      pickhur.com - information retrieved from photo exif tags

	      moby.to - information retrieved from API and photo exif tags

	      twitsnaps.com - information retrieved from photo exif tags

	      twitgoo.com - information retrieved from photo exif tags

NOTES

       Automatic caching of retrieved information in order to reduce API calls and the possibility of hitting limit rates.

       GUI with navigable map for better overview of the accumulated information

       4 Maps providers (including Google Maps) to use.

       Open locations in Google Maps in your browser

       Export retrieved locations list as kmz (for Google Earth) or csv files.

       Handling twitter authentication in an easy way using oAuth. User credentials are not shared with the application.

       User/target search for twitter and flickr.

AUTHOR

       creepy was written by Yiannis Kakavas <jkakavas@gmail.com>

       This manual page was written by Daniel Echeverry for the Debian GNU/Linux system (but may be used by others).

SEE ALSO

       The full documentation which includes the keys descriptions is in /usr/share/doc/creepy/README.

								   MAY 08, 2011 							 CREEPY(1)
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