General :: Rename A File Say Old.txt To New.txt Using Commands?
May 19, 2010How would I rename a file say old.txt to new.txt in Linux using commands?
would it be...?
rename old.txt new.txt
How would I rename a file say old.txt to new.txt in Linux using commands?
would it be...?
rename old.txt new.txt
What bash command can I use to rename or change the extension or name of a batch of files (for example, from .php to .html)?
Furthermore, is there a simple bash or python script/command that can be used to open a batch of plain text files one-by-one, search for all instances of a specific word, and replace all of those instances with another word?
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Code:
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Well, I thought that should have work but the problem is that $source comes up broken, when I run it with echo instead of mv I get the echo with broken names.
Code:
In this case "$source"="This is the file I want to rename"
$ echo "$source"
[Code]....
I need your inputs on performing some operations:-
a. Traverse from top Level directory, find all the directories
b. Rename all these directories to <original name>.dir
c. Once the renaming is done - search from top level and retain only those directories which has .txt content in them.
d. Delete rest all.....
Can i use xargs here to perform operation a and b , or will sed will be useful.
How do you rename:
abc123.txt
abc124.txt
abc125.txt
to
abc.txt.123
abc.txt.124
abc.txt.125
Basically, I want to move the digits from the filename to after the extension.
It works for one file if I type:
rename 123.txt .txt.123 abc.txt.123
but I have thousands of files like these.
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Anyone have any ideas what he's talking about? Can I copy a file and rename it at the same time while copying it to the same exact directory again? Now sure what the two lines things means either. I have an email out to him but it usually takes a long time for him to answer me. I got alot of work to do so everytime I get hung up it kills me.
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[code]....
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mkdir "new dir" and:
touch "new file.txt"
I want to rename files from:
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20091231 1243 some topic.jpg
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?
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I've found these commands in [URL]:
Quote:
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[code]....
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"
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#/var/www/rename.php
<?php
rename('/var/www/welcome.txt','/var/www/welcome1.txt');
?>
showing error
Warning: rename(/var/www/welcome.txt,/var/www/welcome1.txt) [function.rename]: Permission denied in /var/www/rename.php on line 2
but i'm already open all permistion to rename.php & welcome1.txt file
#chmod 777 /var/www/rename.php
#chmod 777 /var/www/welcome.txt ....
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File not found
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Quote:
Originally Posted by nickname
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Size: size
[code]....
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I've tried Krename.
I've tried quoting;
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mv: cannot stat ` Outlander - 2009.avi': No such file or directory
I've tried escaping;
$ mv Outlander - 2009.avi Outlander - 2009.avi
mv: cannot stat ` Outlander - 2009.avi': No such file or directory
I've tried forgetting about it & hoping it will go away...
GNU bash, version 4.1.0
Debian Squeeze with 2.6.32-trunk-686
I'm using 11.2 GNOME for a while now..
As far as I know, GNOME can't act like MS or OSX when we wan't to rename a file..you know, when you slightly re click the file name and its ready to be renamed.. instead, I should go right click - context menu - rename to do that.
Is there any setting or apps for these?