how to batch rename the filename?

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how to batch rename the filename?

Post by zjhxmjl » 2012/05/18 03:19:57

How to batch rename the file name suffix with 'png'? the file name eg:A001.attach,A002.attach~A030.attach

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how to batch rename the filename?

Post by AlanBartlett » 2012/05/18 04:07:22

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[b]for A in *.attach; do B=$(echo $A | sed 's/attach$/png/'); mv $A $B; done[/b]
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That will replace the "attach" suffix of every file with a "png" suffix.

If you would like to append a dot "png" suffix to every file, a simpler "for do done" construction can be used --

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[b]for C in *.attach; do mv $C $C.png; done[/b]
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Re: how to batch rename the filename?

Post by TrevorH » 2012/05/18 15:45:30

Or..

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$ rpm -qf `which rename`
util-linux-2.13-0.59.el5.x86_64
$ rename .attach .png *.attach
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Re: how to batch rename the filename?

Post by zjhxmjl » 2012/05/18 23:55:33

Thank you very much!

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Re: how to batch rename the filename?

Post by shanemario » 2016/05/11 19:29:32

How would i batch rename and change the number sequennce of a tiff sequence... ie

ThePicture_UHD_24p_98789976.tiff
ThePicture_UHD_24p_98789977.tiff
...

change that to
ThePicture_UHD_24p_98700000.tiff
ThePicture_UHD_24p_98700001.tiff
...

thanks!!

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