Mark Plotnick Mark Plotnick Anyone know why? Does the -i option to mv have no effect even when you're typing it to the shell directly not using find? Good call. Looks like I do not have that feature on the shared Red Hat server I am using. As for mv not honoring the -i option, that's not standard. Maybe you have an older system or someone installed a custom version of mv.
YngvarKristiansen Those strings are parts of the filenames used by the original poster. They're not command options or anything like that. Show 3 more comments. Joseph R. Udhayakumar Why does the solution need to use mv? Rmano Rmano 3, 4 4 gold badges 19 19 silver badges 35 35 bronze badges.
The Overflow Blog. Podcast Helping communities build their own LTE networks. Get to grips with the file renaming powerhouse of the Linux world and give mv —and yourself—a rest. Rename is flexible, fast, and sometimes even easier. The command does a fine a job , and it is found on all Linux distributions, in macOS, and in other Unix-like operating systems. But sometimes you just need a bulldozer, not a shovel. The mv command has a purpose in life, and that is to move files. It is a happy side effect that it can be used to move an existing file into a new file, with a new name.
The net effect is to rename the file, so we get what we want. But mv is not a dedicated file renaming tool. To use mv to rename a file type mv , a space, the name of the file, a space, and the new name you wish the file to have.
Then press Enter. Things get trickier when you want to rename multiple files. You must resort to using some nifty Bash tricks. So, yes, it worked. The next part says what the processing will do. It is using mv to move each file to a new file. It also has a different name in different families of Linux, but they all work the same way.
In Fedora and RedHat-derived distributions you install prename like this. To install it in Manjaro Linux use the following command. Note that the renaming command is called perl-rename. The first part is the command name, rename or prename or perl-rename , for the other distributions. The middle part defines the work we want to be done on each filename. The s means substitute. The first term. In the directory are a lot of C source code files.
We can check this with ls. The format of the command is already familiar to us. We can check the result of that command by repeating the ls command from above with the same parameters:.
The rename command follows the same format as before. Two backslashes without anything between them means nothing, an empty string. If it is found, it will be replaced by nothing. In other words, the search term is deleted.
The second use of the ls command shows us that that is exactly what has happened. Metacharacters are symbols that represent positions or sequences of characters.
Lee Netherton Lee Netherton Wow, this is an excellent and simple way of solving the problem! Glad to be introduced to mmv, thanks! Had never heard of mmv before. Just installed and been playing with it - simple, powerful.
Very elegant solution! Exactly what I needed. Capture groups with ' ' and call them back with 1, 2, EX: mmv "my show ep p. The Perl monster here happens to work flawlessly if you have spaces in your filenames.
Judy2K Judy2K 4 4 silver badges 8 8 bronze badges. On my machine this produces the error 'Bareword "fgh" not allowed while "strict subs" in use at eval 1 line 1. Stephan, what is your machine? Ubuntu 8. Stephan I have the same issue, did you resolve? Slow reply due to holiday. Show 2 more comments. Using find , xargs and sed : find. Community Bot 1 1 1 silver badge. I was going to post something like this, but it would have taken me an hour to get the right command — Juan Mendes.
The recursion this answer allows for makes it really robust—I just quickly renamed thousands of files in a deeply-nested hierarchy. To install the Perl rename script: sudo cpan install File::Rename There are two renames as mentioned in the comments in Stephan's answer.
Sam Inverso Sam Inverso 3 3 silver badges 7 7 bronze badges. Here's a way to do it using command-line Groovy: groovy -e 'new File ". Andrei Aleksandrov Andrei Aleksandrov 3 3 silver badges 10 10 bronze badges. If find returns. Suragini Suragini 21 1 1 bronze badge. Other one-line solutions Other equivalent ways of doing the same each line is equivalent , so you can choose your favorite way of doing it.
All the renaming is done using the filter. It was much easier on my Mac to do this in Ruby. Here are 2 examples: for your fgh example. Raymond Gan Raymond Gan 3, 2 2 gold badges 22 22 silver badges 17 17 bronze badges. Lloyd Lloyd 7, 2 2 gold badges 33 33 silver badges 52 52 bronze badges. This breaks magnificently on file names containing spaces, quotes, or other shell metacharacters.
PesaThe PesaThe 6, 1 1 gold badge 14 14 silver badges 38 38 bronze badges. Usage: rename. Handle charset translation and normalization. Note that link-only answers are discouraged, SO answers should be the end-point of a search for a solution vs. Please consider adding a stand-alone synopsis here, keeping the link as a reference. As predicted by kleopatra , the link has gotten stale over time — y2k-shubham. As a more specific example tailored to your problem should be run from the same folder where your files are , the above command would look like: find.
ZakukaZ ZakukaZ 5 5 silver badges 11 11 bronze badges. This worked for me using regexp: I wanted files to be renamed like this: file
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