Dead simple.
How do I rename
05_h.png
06_h.png
to
05_half.png
06_half.png
At least, I think it's simple, but it's hard to Google for this kind of thing unless you already know.
Thanks....
Dead simple.
How do I rename
05_h.png
06_h.png
to
05_half.png
06_half.png
At least, I think it's simple, but it's hard to Google for this kind of thing unless you already know.
Thanks....
Just use bash, no need to call external commands.
for file in *_h.png
do
mv "$file" "${file/_h.png/_half.png}"
done
Do not add #!/bin/sh
For those that need that one-liner:
for file in *.png; do mv "$file" "${file/_h.png/_half.png}"; done
Try rename
command:
rename 's/_h.png/_half.png/' *.png
Update:
example usage:
create some content
$ mkdir /tmp/foo
$ cd /tmp/foo
$ touch one_h.png two_h.png three_h.png
$ ls
one_h.png three_h.png two_h.png
test solution:
$ rename 's/_h.png/_half.png/' *.png
$ ls
one_half.png three_half.png two_half.png
for f in *.png; do
fnew=`echo $f | sed 's/_h.png/_half.png/'`
mv $f $fnew
done
Are you looking for a pure bash solution? There are many approaches, but here's one.
for file in *_h.png ; do mv "$file" "${file%%_h.png}_half.png" ; done
This presumes that the only files in the current directory that end in _h.png
are the ones you want to rename.
Much more specifically
for file in 0{5..6}_h.png ; do mv "$file" "${file/_h./_half.}" ; done
Presuming those two examples are your only. files.
For the general case, file renaming in has been covered before.
Use the rename
utility written in perl.
Might be that it is not available by default though...
$ touch 0{5..6}_h.png
$ ls
05_h.png 06_h.png
$ rename 's/h/half/' *.png
$ ls
05_half.png 06_half.png
for i in *_h.png ; do
mv $i `echo "$i"|awk -F'.' '{print $1"alf."$2}'`
done
Another approach can be manually using batch rename option
Right click on the file -> File Custom Commands -> Batch Rename and you can replace h. with half.
This will work for linux based gui using WinSCP etc
I had a similar question: In the manual, it describes rename as
rename [option] expression replacement file
so you can use it in this way
rename _h _half *.png
In the code: '_h' is the expression that you are looking for. '_half' is the pattern that you want to replace with. '*.png' is the range of files that you are looking for your possible target files.
Hope this can help c:
Use the rename
utility:
rc@bvm3:/tmp/foo $ touch 05_h.png 06_h.png
rc@bvm3:/tmp/foo $ rename 's/_h/_half/' *
rc@bvm3:/tmp/foo $ ls -l
total 0
-rw-r--r-- 1 rc rc 0 2011-09-17 00:15 05_half.png
-rw-r--r-- 1 rc rc 0 2011-09-17 00:15 06_half.png
One liner:
for file in *.php ; do mv "$file" "_$file" ; done