How to rename all the files in a folder having specific
extension?
Example: I have some files with extension (.txt) in a folder
name 'Test'. I have to rename all the .txt files in a test
and its subdirectories to .my extension.
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Answer / manuswami
for file in `ls` ; do NEW=`echo $file | sed 's/.txt/.my/g'`
; mv $file $NEW ; done
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Answer / akshay telang
for i in `find . -name "*.txt"`
> do
> mv $i ${i%.txt}.my
> done
| Is This Answer Correct ? | 11 Yes | 4 No |
Answer / prav gir
#!/bin/sh
for filename in *$1*
do
echo "$filename"
mv -f "$filename" `echo $filename|sed "s/$1/$2/"`
done
run script like
$>scrpt1 .txt .my
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Answer / geichel
#!/bin/bash
for x in $(find $1 -name '*.txt' -type f )
do
OUT=$(echo $x | sed -e "s/\.txt$/.my/")
mv $x $OUT
done
exit 0;
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Answer / venugopal adep
for file in `ls *.txt`; do new_file=`echo $file | sed
's/txt/my/g'`; mv $file $new_file; done
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Answer / indu sharma
find . -name "*.txt" -exec ls {} \; | xargs -n1 -I{} sh -c 'mv "{}" `echo "{}"|basename "{}" .txt`.my'
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Answer / sushanta
for i in *
do
p=`basename $i c`
q=$p "txt"
mv $i $q
done
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Answer / veera
rename replacing-text replaced-test list-of-files
ex: rename .txt .my *.txt
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Answer / aravind s
basename is the appropriate command to cut the unwanted
string from a filename
for example
$basename unix.txt txt #txt stripped off
unix.
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for your problem the solution is
for i in `find . -name '*.txt'`|xargs ls; do
leftname=`basename $i txt`
mv $i ${leftname}doc
done
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basename isn't a shell bulletin, but an external command.
The reason why we deal with it here is that it's most
effective when used with the for loop.
Ref: Unix Concepts & Applications - Sumitabha Das
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