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Rename all the files in the current directory into their sha1sum

Terminal - Rename all the files in the current directory into their sha1sum
find . -maxdepth 1 -type f| xargs sha1sum | sed 's/^\(\w*\)\s*\(.*\)/\2 \1/' | while read LINE; do mv $LINE; done
2010-01-25 20:21:01
User: foremire
Functions: find mv read sed sha1sum xargs
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can't see myself ever using this one ;)

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Comment by linuxrawkstar 177 weeks ago

That doesn't work if there are spaces in the filenames.

This does it in 59 chars, not 113 (spaces are OK, but I don't check for dirs):

for i in *; do mv "$i" $(sha1sum "$i" | cut -d\ -f1); done
Comment by flatcap 177 weeks ago

This is a bit simpler if you're just doing files in the current working directory.

for i in *;do mv "$i" $(sha1sum "$i" | cut -d" " -f1);done
Comment by eightmillion 177 weeks ago

Actually, my version needs a directory check:

for i in *;do [ -f "$i" ] && mv "$i" $(sha1sum "$i"|cut -d" " -f1);done
Comment by eightmillion 177 weeks ago

60 chars, but more beautiful:

eval $(sha1sum * | sed 's/^\(\w*\)\s*\(.*\)/mv "\2" "\1";/')
Comment by flatcap 177 weeks ago

Hmm, your sed expression is flawed. It breaks on files with leading spaces (unlikely, I know). Change the middle from "\s*" to " " (space space).

Comment by flatcap 177 weeks ago

Thanks all, I'm new to sed, so the regex looks awkward.

Comment by foremire 176 weeks and 6 days ago

Some of them do not work if you have a file called:

'12" record'

Comment by unixmonkey8046 176 weeks and 3 days ago

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