Rename Files

[uguess]

Hi Everyone

I have few directories and withing that files. I want to rename all the files in these directories.

Example

Directories

Larry Moe Joe John

Within that i have files i want to rename. The criteria for remaming is:

All files starting with jx should be change to jx.

Please help

 

[LKBrwnDBA]

man find



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[BrianAtWork]

You want to rename the files from jxblahblah to jx.blahblah?

Here's a quick snippet to get you started:

for file in $(find . -type f -name "jx*")
do
    newfile=$(echo $file | perl -ne 's|^(.*/jx)([^/]*)$|$1.$2|g;print;')
    echo mv $file $newfile
done

Just go into the directory that contains Larry Moe Joe John and run the above command (or put it in a script).
You can replace the perl part with sed, awk - whatever you prefer. I prefer perl to do substitutions, but you can use whatever tool you wish. The main point was to show how you can use find to get a list of files in different subdirs. You can also replace the period right after find with a directory (like /home) so you don't even have to be in the directory when you run this code.

Hope that helps - just a start...