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Old 08-18-2008
recursively renaming files
Hi,

I'm new linux user.I need to recursively rename all files .I used this command "rename .MP3\;1 .MP3 *.MP3\;1" to rename files in one directory.But Inside this directory lots of sub directories there. Please help me out how to rename all files recursively?

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Govindan
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Old 08-18-2008
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Originally Posted by catgovind
I'm new linux user.I need to recursively rename all files .I used this command "rename .MP3\;1 .MP3 *.MP3\;1" to rename files in one directory.But Inside this directory lots of sub directories there. Please help me out how to rename all files recursively?
I'm not familier with the 'rename' command, it could be that there's an optional commandline switch to recurse through subdirs. If not, this should do the trick:
Code:
find . -type f -name '*.MP3;1' | while read filename ; do mv "$filename" "`echo $filename" | sed 's/MP3\;1$/MP3/'` ; done

Last edited by Smiling Dragon; 08-18-2008 at 08:57 PM..
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Old 08-20-2008
Hi Thanku
Its worked for my problem. [Smilie]
 
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