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Hello,

I want to rename all the files in my directory according to the following criterion:

IF the original filename does not end in 0
THEN rename the file to "original filname" but with the last character preceded by the string: _copy

IF the original filename ends in 0
THEN take the last character off of the filename


For example:

If my directory contains the following two files:

test0
test1

After running my command I should have them renamed to:

test
test_copy1

Is this possible or too complicated ??

Code:

$ ls test*
test0 test1

$ ls test* | sed -e p -e 's/0$//;s/[1-9]$/_copy&/' | xargs -n2 mv

$ ls test*
test test_copy1

Thank you very much Scottn,

I actually had to reverse the order of those substitution commands to make it work (because removing the 0 first, causes the last character to be preceded by '_copy' if the second last character was a number)

But I figured it out, thanks!