Shell Programming and Scripting

Hi,

I have around 100 xml file in a directory. I need to rename the files from .xml to .xml1. So i tried using the following command:

mv *.xml *.xml1

but i am getting the following error
mv: when moving multiple files, last argument must be a directory
Try `mv --help' for more information.

suggest me some solutions.


Thanks,
Ananthi.U

Hi.

Try:

Code:

ls *.xml | xargs -I{} mv {} {}1

Hi,

ls *.xml | xargs -i{} mv {} {}1

This command worked out... Thank u..

can u plz explain how it works??

Not really understand why use three {}s

Code:

ls *.xml |xargs -i mv {} {}1

or if you want rename xml files in different sub-directory.

Code:

find . -type f -name "*.xml" -exec mv {} {}1 \;

The ReplaceString is not optional with -I (capital I).

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That certainly doesn't work.

Code:

$ ls
file_1.xml  file_3.xml  file_5.xml  file_7.xml  file_9.xml
file_2.xml  file_4.xml  file_6.xml  file_8.xml

$ find . -type f -name "*.xml" -exec mv {} {}1 \;
$ ls
{}1

Interesting, it works in my computer.

Hmm, OK

Just tested. It works in Linux, but not in UNIX (AIX, Solaris 8 or 10) find.

I would probably use xargs with that anyway, instead of exec.