How-to rename multiple files in Linux How-to rename multiple files

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How-to rename multiple files in Linux

How-to rename multiple files in Linux

by Akaname — last
modified May 29, 2011 10:42 PM

Sometimes you need to rename hundreds or thousands of files at once after one and the same scheme. Here are some examples how to rename the files in the linux terminal.

Rename
all .htm files in one directory to .html

by Akaname — last
modified Jul 04, 2011 04:16 PM

This will rename all *.htm files in the current directory and its subdirectories to *.html files. See the Linux manual pages "man
bash", "man
find", "man
mv", "man
sed" and "man
pcrepattern".

All filename results from find are piped line by line to read and then processed by mv, editing the new filename with sed.
This ensures that all paths with whitespace characters are processed correctly.

find . -type f -name '*.htm' | while read filename; do mv -v "${filename}" "`echo "${filename}" | sed -e 's/\.htm$/\.html/'`"; done

Rename
all .ogg files in one directory to .oga

by Akaname — last
modified Jul 04, 2011 04:16 PM

This will rename all *.ogg files in the current directory and its subdirectories to *.oga files. See the Linux manual pages "man
bash", "man
find", "man
mv", "man
sed" and "man
pcrepattern".

All filename results from find are piped line by line to read and then processed by mv, editing the new filename with sed.
This ensures that all paths with whitespace characters are processed correctly.

find . -type f -name '*.ogg' | while read filename; do mv -v "${filename}" "`echo "${filename}" | sed -e 's/\.ogg$/\.oga/'`"; done

Add
additional file extension to all files

by Akaname — last
modified Jul 04, 2011 04:18 PM

This will add an .old file extension to all files in the current directory, including all subdirectories. See the Linux manual pages "man
bash", "man
find", "man
xargs" and "man
mv".

find . -type f -name "*" | xargs -t -i mv {} {}.old

This will add date and time as a file extension to all files in the current directory, including all subdirectories. Very useful for backups. See the Linux manual pages "man
bash", "man
find", "man
xargs", "man
mv" and "man
date".

find . -type f -name "*" | xargs -t -i mv {} {}.`date +%F-%H:%M:%S`