Commands tagged rename (50)
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The command renames all files in a certain directory. Renaming them to their date of creation using EXIF. If you're working with JPG that contains EXIF data (ie. from digital camera), then you can use following to get the creation date instead of stat. * Since not every file has exif data, we want to check that dst is valid before doing the rest of commands. * The output from exif has a space, which is a PITA for filenames. Use sed to replace with '-'. * Note that I use 'echo' before the mv to test out my scripts. When you're confident that it's doing the right thing, then you can remove the 'echo'... you don't want to end up like the guy that got all the files blown away. Credits: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/4710753/rename-files-according-to-date-created Show Sample Output
1for i in *.jpg; do dst=$(exif -t 0x9003 -m $i ) && dst_esc=$(echo $dst | sed 's/ /-/g' ) && echo mv $i $dst_esc.jpg ; done -
1jhead -autorot -ft -n"%Y_%m_%d-%H_%M_%S" *.[jJ][pP][gG]
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Adding course name prefix to lecture pdfs Show Sample Output
1ls *.pdf | while read file; do newfile="CS749__${file}"; mv "${file}" "${newfile}"; done; -
Removing Course name prefix added Show Sample Output
1ls *.pdf | while read file; do newfile="${file##CS749__}"; mv "${file}" "${newfile}"; done; -
Sony's Xperia camera app creates files without time-stamped names. Thus, after deleting files on the phone, the same names will be reused. When uploading the photos to a cloud storage, this means that files will be overwritten. Running this command after every sync of uploaded photos with the computer prevents this. Show Sample Output
1(setopt CSH_NULL_GLOB; cd /path/to/Camera\ Uploads; for i in DSC_* MOV_*; do mv -v $i "$(date +%F -d @$(stat -c '%Y' $i)) $i"; done) -
Anyone know how to avoid title casing some words, like 'to', 'of', 'that', etc.?
0rename 's/(^|[\s\(\)\[\]_-])([a-z])/$1\u$2/g' * -
0rename 's/\b([a-z])/\u$1/g' *
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just an alternative to #7818 Show Sample Output
0exec 3<&0; ls -1N | while read a; do echo "Rename file: $a"; read -e -i "$a" -p "To: " b <&3 ; [ "$a" == "$b" ] || mv -vi "$a" "$b"; done -
Handles spaces in file names and directories. Optionally change directories as well by pipe to tr from dirname.
0find ./ -type f -exec sh -c 'echo "{}" "$(dirname "{}")/$(basename "{}" | tr "[A-Z]" "[a-z]")"' \; -
Renames all files ending in "_test.rb" to "_spec.rb"
0for i in `find -name '*_test.rb'` ; do mv $i ${i%%_test.rb}_spec.rb ; done -
0for f in *.png; do mv $f `basename $f .png`@2x.png; done
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0for file in $(git ls-files | grep old_name_pattern); do git mv $file $(echo $file | sed -e 's/old_name_pattern/new_name_pattern/'); done
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The 'rename' command with the first argument as "'s/\.//'" and the second argument as "" will remove the specified extension from the filenames.
0rename 's/\.sh//' ./* -
Given a bunch of files with "wrong" date naming, it renames them in a "good" format. Show Sample Output
0rename 's/result_([0-9]+)_([0-9]+)_([0-9]+)\.json\.txt/sprintf("%d%02d%02d.txt",$3,$2,$1)/ge' result_*.txt -
Sometimes I get FLAC files that RhythmBox can't play but VLC can. So I re-encode them using GStreamer at highest compression.
0find . -type f -iname '*.flac' | while read i; do mv -- "$i" "$i.tmp"; gst-launch filesrc location="$i.tmp" ! flacdec ! flacenc quality=8 ! filesink location="${i%.tmp}"; rm -- "$i.tmp"; done -
I used this (along with a modified one replacing `mkv` with `srt`) to remove the slight differences in who the provider of the video / matching subtitle was (as they are the same contents and the subs match anyway). So now VLC (and other video players) can easily guess the subtitle file. Show Sample Output
0perl-rename -v 's/720p.+mkv/720p\.mkv/' *.mkv -
I had trouble with accent I could do a simple mv by hand but it is not efficient. I found this online http://www.unix.com/shell-programming-and-scripting/158635-remove-spanish-accent-file-name.html but I could not specify the accented letter direcly because it is not in the same encoding as my cli so I changed the char for their octal value. to add accent I use this table http://linux.about.com/library/cmd/blcmdl7_iso_8859-1.htm and add the values to the tr part. the other "duplicates" where not working for me. comment to help me better this script. :) Show Sample Output
0for f in *; do tmp_f=`echo $f | tr "\351" "e"`; if [ "$tmp_f" != "$f" ]; then mv $f $tmp_f; echo "$f is renamed to $tmp_f"; fi done -
Adding course name prefix to lecture pdfs
0rename 's/^/CS749__/' *.pdf -
It tries to identify the file types in a directory and adds or replaces them with their appropriate extensions. Please, update the "file" tool before use it (last version: 5.37): https://github.com/file/file
0find "$(realpath .)" -type f -exec bash -c 'p="{}"; b="${p##*/}"; e=${b#"${b%.*}"}; e2=$(file -b -F="" --extension "$p"| awk -F/ '\''$1~/^\w+$/ {print $1} '\''); if [ "$e" != ".$e2" ] && [ ! -z $e2 ]; then mv "$p" "${p%$b}${b%$e}.$e2"; fi;' \; -
The “predictive capture” feature of Sony's Xperia camera app hides the date stamp deeply inside the filename. This command adds another date stamp at the beginning of the filename. Show Sample Output
0(setopt CSH_NULL_GLOB; cd /path/to/Camera\ Uploads; for i in DSCPDC_000*; do mv -v $i "$(echo $i | perl -lpe 's/(DSCPDC_[0-9]{4}_BURST)([0-9]{4})([0-9]{2})([0-9]{2})/$2-$3-$4 $1$2$3$4/')"; done) -
-2IFS=?" ; for i in * ; do mv -v $i `echo $i|tr ???????????????????\ aaaeeiooAAAEEIOOOcC_` ; done
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For those files in current folder that would be shown in `ls *ext`, for some extension ext, move/rename that file removing the .ext suffix from the file name. It uses Bash's parameter substitution, as seen in http://tldp.org/LDP/abs/html/parameter-substitution.html#PCTPATREF (for analog use in prefix, see http://tldp.org/LDP/abs/html/parameter-substitution.html#PSOREX2 )
-3for i in *ext; do mv $i ${i%.ext}; done -
Renames files in a directory to incremental numbers, following alphabetic order. The command does not maintain extensions.
-5declare -i i; i=0; for file in *; do i=`expr $i+1`; mv "$file" $i; done; -
-5declare -i i=0 ; for file in * ; do i=$[$i+1] ; mv "$file" $i; done
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-6find . -type d -name '*[A-Z]*' -execdir bash -c '! test -f "$(echo "$0" | tr "[:upper:]" "[:lower:]")"' {} \; -execdir bash -c 'mv "$0" "$(echo "$0" | tr "[:upper:]" "[:lower:]")"' {} \;
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