find and rename files

[diwin]

I need to find and rename all .JPG files to .jpg in a folder with subfolders. How would I go about this?

Daniel Dillon
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[stefanwagner]

get rename.

find -name "*.JPG" -exec rename 's/.JPG/.jpg/' {} +

rename takes regular expressions. I guess more recent versions than mine already contain an -R(ecursive) switch, so you can omit the find.

maybe it is then:

 rename -R 's/.JPG/.jpg/' "*.JPG"

but you have to have a look at the manual. My version belongs to perl v5.10.0

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[feherke]

Hi

My version belongs to perl v5.10.0

Depends on distribution. [tt]rename[/tt] with that syntax I usually met on Debian and its descendants. On other distributions a different [tt]rename[/tt] is used, part of util-linux or util-linux-ng package.

find -name "*.JPG" -exec rename '.JPG' '.jpg' {} +

Feherke.

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[xwb]

That's something I didn't know - never knew there was a rename in Linux. I've always used mv. Must have crept in some time after SRV3.

 

[flyboytim]

Simply

rename 's/.JPG/.jpg/' *.JPG

works from the target folder in Ubuntu