[ale] help with batch file renaming

[Jim Seymour]

On Sun, 3 Aug 2003, Jason Etheridge wrote:

> On Saturday, August 2, 2003, at 11:17 PM, Jim Seymour wrote:
> > 2003_Billy_Jo_Bob_01.jpg
> > 2003_Billy_Jo_Bob_02.jpg
> >
> > There may be 50 or more files I need to rename at a time.  I have been
> > playing with rename to no avail.  Anyone know a bash script or something
> > to make my life easier?
> 
>  From the UNIX Power Tools book:
> 
> 	ls -d *.new | sed 's/\(.*\)\.new$/mv & \1.old/' | sh
> 
> for mimicking rename *.new *.old in DOS.
> 
> I think you could tweak it like so:
> 
> ls -d *.jpg |
> sed 's/2003_Billy_Bob_\(.*\)\.jpg$/mv & 2003_Bill_Jo_Bob_\1.jpg/' | sh
> 
> Instead of piping it to sh, you could redirect it to a file to 
> double-check the commands first.
> 

Thanks Jason.  I'll give it a try.  I was just looking at another 
directory of files to rename when this arrived :-) 

-- 
Jim Seymour
www.wingbarscafe.com

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