Renaming can be done using mv command. But you cannot rename multiple files at once. You need to script it. I can think of one solution:
Have two arrays with the values of X and Y. Loop over them and for each value of X and Y, rename the file to desired format.
Try it out and let us know.
Store all file name in one temporary file
ls *filename*.doc > Temp.tmp
Now use the loop to remove value line by line
For Line in $(cat Temp.tmp);
do mv Line "yourSting".line;
done
This will give a good idea on how to do it
This is bad advice. That is a useless use of cat and a useless use of ls * and a useless use of backticks, not to mention a dangerous use of backticks! Also, a pointless use of temporary file. I often see two or three of these habits, but to see all five of them simultaneously is interesting. Remember that ls doesn't expand *, the shell does, so you can feed it straight into for.
A simpler and safer version is
Code:
for FILE in *filename*.doc
do
echo mv "$FILE" some-destination-string
done
Remove the echo once you've gotten some-destination-string as exactly what you want it to be.
Rudic, yours is better, but there's no point using a pipe there -- too many arguments for for would also be too many arguments for ls, it doesn't help you.
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)
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.
For RedHat (this from Fedora 19, similar one available from CentOS 6.4 )
Code:
NAME
rename - rename files
SYNOPSIS
rename [options] expression replacement file...
DESCRIPTION
rename will rename the specified files by replacing the first occur‐
rence of expression in their name by replacement.
You may also be able to find an old shell script:
Code:
# @(#) mved Rename, change filename by mv-ing with special pattern, =.
# $Id: mved 291 2007-10-23 11:26:32Z dennisl $
# See: http://raf.org/mved/
# From comp.sources.wizards & Martin Marietta at ornl, off Usenet.
# 90.09.27.
# mved.sh
# Move-and-edit filenames.
#
# Usage: mved [-n] from-pattern to-pattern
...
Note that the three are different from one another.
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