[SOLVED] add path to flenames

aai · 02-19-2011, 09:20 PM

Hello,
I have thousands files in thousands subfolders. All subfolders are named differently, but all files named like:

AAA_000_001.tif
AAA_000_002.tif
and so on (AAA_000_999.tif)

I have to replace "AAA_000" with the path of the file.

For example if I have a file AAA_000_001.tif in Foled/sub1/sub2, I have to rename AAA_000_001.tif to Foled/sub1/sub2_001.tif (or Folder_sub1_sub2_001.tif)

I have searched several forums, and so far I have this script:

for a in `find ./ -name "AAA_000*"`
do
mv $a `echo "$a" | sed 's/AAA_000/BBB/g'`
printf $PWD $a
done

it can replace all AAA of all files in all subfolders with BBB, but I did not find a way to replace it with the path (

I will really appreciate your help
Thanks

fordeck · 02-19-2011, 10:04 PM

You might want to look at the following command:

dirname

Or

basename

Regards,

Fordeck

ntubski · 02-19-2011, 10:50 PM

Code:

find * -name 'AAA_000*' | while read name ; do
    # remove echo to actually do rename
    echo mv $name $(echo $name | sed 'y@/@_@;s/AAA_000_//')
done

aai · 02-20-2011, 08:57 AM

Thank you for suggestions!
The script really does what I want! It perfectly renames all files in all subfolders. But, it moves files from their original locations to the main folder. Is it possible to keep them where they are?

Thanks

ntubski · 02-20-2011, 10:07 AM

Yup

Code:

find * -name 'AAA_000*' | while read name ; do
    # remove echo to actually do rename
    echo mv $name $(dirname $name)/$(echo $name | sed 'y@/@_@;s/AAA_000_//')
done

aai · 02-20-2011, 10:22 AM

Yeaaahhh!!
Thank you very much!!!

grail · 02-20-2011, 06:55 PM

I know its already solved, but thought I would add 2 cents

Code:

while read -r name file path
do
    echo mv $name $path/${path//\//_}${file#AAA_000}
done< <(find * -name 'AAA_000*' -printf '%p %f %h\n')