On Thursday, May 19th 2005 at 06:01 +0100, quoth THUFIR HAWAT:
=>given:
=>
=>bash-3.00$ ls -al
=>total 984
=>drwxr-xr-x 2 thufir thufir 4096 May 16 02:18 .
=>drwx------ 15 thufir thufir 4096 May 16 02:18 ..
=>-rw-r--r-- 1 thufir thufir 12354 May 14 22:30 1151154
=>-rw-r--r-- 1 thufir thufir 12955 May 14 22:16 1199229
=>-rw-r--r-- 1 thufir thufir 13639 May 14 22:22 1238181
=>-rw-r--r-- 1 thufir thufir 13996 May 14 22:24 1268816
=>-rw-r--r-- 1 thufir thufir 12176 May 14 22:37 1276032
=>...
=>
=>and then:
=>
=>bash-3.00$ mv 1151154 1151154.html
=>bash-3.00$ mv 1199229 1199229.html
=>bash-3.00$ mv 1238181 1238181.html
=>
=>each file can be changed. however, there are many files and that is
=>very tedious. can the above three commands (or 50, or 100) be written
=>with a single rename command?
=>
=>thanks,
My preference is the following rename script from the Camel book.
#!/usr/bin/perl
$op = shift;
for (@ARGV) {
$was = $_;
eval $op;
die $@ if $@;
rename($was,$_) unless $was eq $_;
}
Now you can use perl regex to get your renames accomplished.
rename 's/$/.html/' *
But you're not limited to simple substitutions. e.g., Let's flip all the
characters to lowercase.
rename 'tr/A-Z/a-z/' *
Enjoy.
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