Command to rename multiple file in one go

rename 's/.xls/.ods/g' *.xls

By: jedifu

2013-09-12 13:42:56

rename bash Linux

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Files extension change

Changing a file extension to a new one for all files in a directory.
This is sample output - yours may be different.
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rename .oldextension .newextension *.oldextension

haithamg · 2009-02-10 16:58:05 21
Command to rename multiple file in one go

An entirely shell-based solution (should work on any bourne-style shell), more portable on relying on the rename command, the exact nature of which varies from distro to distro.
This is sample output - yours may be different.
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for f in ./*.xls; do mv "$f" "${f%.*}.ods"; done

evilsoup · 2013-09-17 01:41:56 7
Command to rename multiple file in one go

This command can be used to rename all the files with extension .xls( in this case) to .ods files. It can be used for other files with certain extension.
This is sample output - yours may be different.
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find / -name "*.xls" -print0 | xargs -0 rename .xls .ods {}

jagjit · 2011-07-18 12:48:49 6
Remove .sh file extension for files in current directory

The 'rename' command with the first argument as "'s/\.//'" and the second argument as "" will remove the specified extension from the filenames.
This is sample output - yours may be different.
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rename 's/\.sh//' ./*

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