Script to change several filename

jan_81 · 04-20-2004, 06:44 AM

I need to change many filename that have similar name.
Example:

I have about 100 file named "hello world" and I want change all them name in "hi world".
I've tried some command like "find" and "mv" but I didn't manage to make it...

Thanks.. by the way Hi all!!

Jan

TroelsSmit · 04-20-2004, 08:11 AM

Put an if sentence and a concatenation into the following script:

#!/usr/bin/tcsh
#filer i et directory
foreach fil (`find /home/you/path -type f`)
mv $fil $newfilname
end

jan_81 · 04-20-2004, 08:45 AM

Perhaps I didn't explain very well.. sorry for my bad english..

I have several similar files...

00001-hello-world-00001
00002-hello-world-00002
00003-hello-world-00003
...
...

I want to change for all these files the word "hello" with the word "hi" so that I'll have the files named

00001-hi-world-00001
00002-hi-world-00002
...

jan_81 · 04-22-2004, 09:06 AM

Muzzy · 04-24-2004, 03:22 AM

This seems to work, although its not clear form your description if all the files are in the ssame directory or in different directories. If they are in different directories then this won't work without some modification.

for f in *; do mv "$f" "`echo $f | sed s/hello-world/hi-world/`"; done

Be careful with all the " and ` s!!

There is probably a better way of doing this, and I would like to see other people's improved suggestions, but this should do for your purposes.

Mark.

jan_81 · 04-28-2004, 12:10 PM

I don't mind the better way, it's important that it works..

Anyway, for the moment I can't try your script. I've just resolved the problem in another way... manually one by one!! Surely I'll try your script the next time and I'll make you to know as it goes...

Thanks

Bye at all