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Old 03-12-2012
Find all images, append unique prefix to name and move to different directory

Hi,

I have a directory with Multiple subdirectories and 1000s of pictures (jpg) in each directory. The problem is that each directory has a 001.jpg in them. I want to append a unique name (the directory_name)would be fine. and then move them to one main backup directory once they have been renamed.

I used the find command below on a test dir but it blew away duplicate names.
Code:
find ./ -type f -exec mv {} . \;

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found the solution...

[CODE]rename -v 's/(.*)\/(.*)/$1_$2/;' */*


renames all the files in each directory with the directoryname_filename then moves them to the parent folder.

Last edited by Franklin52; 03-12-2012 at 02:15 PM.. Reason: Please use code tags for data and code samples, thank you
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Old 03-12-2012
Glad rename works for you, my rename (version 2.19.1) dosn't support the -v option. For others in this boat the following ksh/bash script should work:

Code:
find . \( -iname '*.jpg' -o -iname '*.jpeg' \) -type f -print | while read file
do
   NF=${file#./}
   NF=${NF//\//_}
   [ "$file" = "$NF" ] || mv $file ./$NF
done

Wonder if your going to want something that removes empty directories next Smilie
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