Renaming a file using a wild card 2

[bazil2]

(Elementary user)

Could anyone please assist me with the following ...

I would like to rename some files that end with the suffix '.content' to '.pdf' using a single command but I want to maintain the stem of the file name, hence:

'ABC.content' should change to 'ABC.pdf'
'123.content' should change to '123.pdf'

Best regards

 

[stanhubble]

Hey a basic one that even i can answer:

for i in *.content ; do mv $i `basename $i`.pdf ; done

 

[feherke]

Hi

Use the [tt]rename[/tt] utility. It is not a standard tool, but is frequently present on Linux systems. However it may come from two packages and those two have different syntax :

[gray]# rename from the util-linux package[/gray]
rename '.content' '.pdf' *.content

[gray]# rename from the perl package[/gray]
rename 's/\.content/.pdf/' *.content

Feherke.

http://feherke.github.com/