Comments on: Rename multiple files to another extension in Linux

By: Will

Will — Mon, 22 Jun 2009 16:17:50 +0000

Vincent,

for old in *; do mv $old `basename $old`.zip; done

* = all files, you can change that though. like FILE*

Vincent — Sun, 14 Jun 2009 17:25:41 +0000

What all those commands do not cover is to add an extension to a file that has none.
How would that work?

Fagner — Wed, 07 Jan 2009 23:14:13 +0000

Good job!

Zodak — Sun, 19 Aug 2007 22:20:35 +0000

The same can be done using the parameter expansion feature of the bash shell.

for a in *php5 ; do mv $a ${a%%5} ; done

hron84 — Sun, 19 Aug 2007 08:01:03 +0000

And this can be usede too:

#!/bin/bash
for x in *.php5; do n=${x/.php5/.php}; mv $x $n; done

And it’s can be used in other dir than ‘.’

Christian Geisert — Mon, 13 Aug 2007 02:09:01 +0000

And I’m using ‘mmv’

James — Sun, 12 Aug 2007 19:40:21 +0000

You can also use the ‘rename’ command included with most debian installs. It’s a little more intuitive, imho.

$ rename
Usage: rename [-v] [-n] [-f] perlexpr [filenames]

$ rename ’s/\.php5/.php/’ *.php5

jds — Sun, 12 Aug 2007 19:27:21 +0000

ich mag prename lieber …