Comments on: Rename multiple files to another extension in Linux

By: Octavian Neamtu

Octavian Neamtu — Mon, 31 Jan 2011 22:46:19 +0000

very useful thanks!

By: jigna

jigna — Fri, 21 Jan 2011 11:59:30 +0000

i want all extension of open office in linux operting system…?

By: e.m.fields

e.m.fields — Sat, 04 Sep 2010 10:48:37 +0000

sorry to raise a dead thread, if anyone cares, but I’ve got a stumper for ya.

How would you do a batch rename of a directory full of files some of which contain spaces in their names?

for example:

file 1.jpeg
file 2.png
file 3 and extra wording.jpeg
completely-arbitrary-filename without extension

to:
file 1.TXT
file 2.TXT
file 3 and extra wording.TXT
completely-arbitrary-filename without extension.TXT

(And yes, I know this is a silly example, but it’s for a RL-practical use.)

Thanks!
-e.m.fields
chapel hill, nc

By: andrew

andrew — Fri, 30 Jul 2010 07:28:03 +0000

how would you keep the extension but append -xyz to the basename?
for example, i want to copy all files in dir a and append -xyz the end of the name while keeping the extension to dir b.

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*

By: Vincent

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?

By: Fagner

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

Good job!

By: Zodak

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

By: hron84

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 ‘.’

By: Christian Geisert

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

And I’m using ‘mmv’

By: James

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

By: jds

jds — Sun, 12 Aug 2007 19:27:21 +0000

ich mag prename lieber …