find and replace

[Mike Ballon]

[adding the find logic]

find /blah/*.jpg -exec rename .jpg .png {} \;

On Wed, Feb 8, 2012 at 6:19 PM, James Mcphee <jmcphe at gmail.com> wrote:

> rename .JPG .jpg *.JPG
>
> On Wed, Feb 8, 2012 at 3:58 PM, Michael Havens <bmike1 at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> some cameras take photos and append it with .JPG  My system doesn't seem
>> to like that. How do I find and replace text. I thought it would be a
>> simple pipe argument (as shown in <a>) but I was wrong. How do you do it?
>> I then figured I only have a few in one directory to do so I wouldd do a
>> simple mv command. That didn't work either <b> So I looked at its man page
>> and discovered th -T option; but that didn't help any. I googled and found
>> some complex commands and I a s hoping there was a simple way to do it
>> (like my pipe example0.
>> Is there a simple way to find from / and change the name of multiple
>> files?
>>
>> <a>
>> bmike1 at Michaels-Laptop ~/Pictures/Flowers $ find *.JPG|mv *.jpg
>> mv: missing destination file operand after `*.jpg'
>> Try `mv --help' for more information.
>> <b>
>> bmike1 at Michaels-Laptop ~/Pictures/Flowers $ mv *.JPG *.jpg
>> mv: target `*.jpg' is not a directory
>> bmike1 at Michaels-Laptop ~/Pictures/Flowers $ man mv
>> bmike1 at Michaels-Laptop ~/Pictures/Flowers $ mv -T *.JPG *.jpg
>> mv: extra operand `100_0125.JPG'
>> Try `mv --help' for more information.
>> bmike1 at Michaels-Laptop ~/Pictures/Flowers $ mv ./*.JPG *.jpg
>> mv: target `*.jpg' is not a directory
>> bmike1 at Michaels-Laptop ~/Pictures/Flowers $ mv -T ./*.JPG *.jpg
>> mv: extra operand `./100_0125.JPG'
>> Try `mv --help' for more information.
>> bmike1 at Michaels-Laptop ~/Pictures/Flowers $
>>
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