Better yet, there is a utility called "rename" that comes with perl5
that does the same thing, except you use perl regular expressions to do
the deed.
So, for example:
benb@nulled:~/rename$ touch foo\ \ \ bar
benb@nulled:~/rename$ touch foo\ bar\ bar
benb@nulled:~/rename$ touch cherry\ bar\ foo
benb@nulled:~/rename$ ls -al
total 8
drwxr-xr-x 2 benb benb 4096 2005-08-19 12:36 .
drwxr-xr-x 84 benb benb 4096 2005-08-19 12:35 ..
-rw-r--r-- 1 benb benb 0 2005-08-19 12:36 cherry bar foo
-rw-r--r-- 1 benb benb 0 2005-08-19 12:35 foo bar
-rw-r--r-- 1 benb benb 0 2005-08-19 12:35 foo bar bar
benb@nulled:~/rename$ rename 'tr/ /_/' *
benb@nulled:~/rename$ ls -al
total 8
drwxr-xr-x 2 benb benb 4096 2005-08-19 12:36 .
drwxr-xr-x 84 benb benb 4096 2005-08-19 12:35 ..
-rw-r--r-- 1 benb benb 0 2005-08-19 12:36 cherry_bar_foo
-rw-r--r-- 1 benb benb 0 2005-08-19 12:35 foo___bar
-rw-r--r-- 1 benb benb 0 2005-08-19 12:35 foo_bar_bar
benb@nulled:~/rename$
Use rename -n to do a dry run to see what it would change.
~Ben
MCR wrote:
> Here is a script that I have been using a lot lately,
> it is a simple shell scripts:
>
> #!/bin/bash
> number=12
> for img in *.jpg
> do
> mv $img $number.jpg
> $((number = number + 1))
> done
>
> this will take all file in a directory that ends in
> jpg and will rename it to the name of $name. You can
> set $name to start at what number you want and it will
> increment by one. I have gone as high as 253
> pictures, I do not know what number it will stop at.
>
> Hope it Helps.
>
> Mike
>
>
> --- Josef Lowder <joe@actionline.com> wrote:
>
>
>>Can anyone provide a simple shell script command to
>>change the file names of all the files in a given
>>directory?
>> from pict0001.jpg to just 01.jpg
>> from pict0002.jpg to just 02.jpg etc. etc.
>>with the numbers running to a few hundred pix, all
>>with
>>the same "pict00..." first part of the filename.
>>
>>I looked on the 'net to find a shell script to
>>"mass" rename the files
>>in any given directory and found the example below
>>to rename the
>>suffix from php3 to just php, but I couldn't figure
>>out how to modify
>>that to change the filename itself.
>>
>> ls -d *.php3 | sed 's/\(.*\).php3$/mv "&"
>>"\1.php"/' | sh
>>
>>I also found a *nix utility on my system named
>>'rename' but I
>>couldn't get it to work. Below is an excerpt from
>>the 'man' page
>>for 'rename' ... but what in the world is 'foo'??
>>
>>MAN PAGE excerpt:
>>rename will rename the specified files by replacing
>>the first occurrence of from in their name by to.
>>For example, given the files foo1, ..., foo9, foo10,
>>..., foo278, the
>>commands
>>
>>rename foo foo0 foo?
>> rename foo foo0 foo??
>>
>>will turn them into foo001, ..., foo009, foo010,
>>..., foo278.
>>And
>>rename .htm .html *.htm will fix the extension of
>>your html files.
>>
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