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.
I'm using Ubuntu for about a half year. Currently version 10.10. The next problem I have with Nautilus: He have it in ListView. If I want to rename a file then the entire file is selected and not only the first part. So the file extension is also selected. I think this is a bug, whoich can be found on the Internet, but I do not find a solution. Does anyone here have a solution?
View 4 Replies View RelatedI am trying to rename a lot of files but need to keep the extension :
the files are films names :
a.b.c.d.***.iso
the result should be replacing "." by spaces " "
this command :
for files in *.iso ; do mv "$files" `echo "$files" | tr '.' ' '`; done
put a space also before the extension iso ??
How can I rename files from
"a.b.c.d.iso" to "a b c d.iso"
I am to rename all the files within a directory (which contains multiple subdirectories) recursively without invalid characters.
I tried the coding posted above.
find . -type f -printf '%p
' | while read file; do
oldfile=$(basename "$file")
newfile=$(echo "$oldfile" | sed 's/[^A-Za-z0-9_.]/_/g')
if [ ! "$newfile" == "$oldfile" ]; then
echo mv "$file" "${file%$oldfile}$newfile"
code....
but I get an error on both of them stating "find: bad option -printf find: [-H | -L] path-list predicate-list"
I have made the simple mistake of using dolphin to rename several picture files of types jpg and png. I have no problem viewing them and Ubuntu still knows which is which (if i view their properties it will state File Type: JPEG or PNG) but unfortunately Ubuntu Tweak does not allow you to chose them without the extension (I am trying to change my login background using this) So what i need is something that can scan several files, determine the file type, and add an appropriate extension to it. I have found several to do so for music files but none for images. I am using Ubuntu 11.04 at the moment.
View 5 Replies View RelatedI would like to ask if someone knows a command or a script on how to rename a multiple file in the directory starting at the end of the filename or at the .extension( i would like to remove the last 11 character before the extension) for exampleBelow is the result of my command ls inside the directoryQuote:
BBC_In_footsteps_of_Alexander_the_mountain_20-v3veN2U__3I.mp4
BBC_In_the_footsteps_of_Alexander_Afghanistan_17-thAS28SWKKU.mp4
BBC_In_the_footsteps_of_Alexander_Alexandria_7-rQcjjpRwqw4.mp4
[code]....
how to run a command on all files with the same extension in a directory like this:
Code:
tex breqn.dtx; tex empheq.dtx; tex flexisym.dtx; tex mathstyle.dtx; tex mathtools.dtx; tex mhsetup.dtx; tex xfrac.dtx;
but in a simpler manner? I found this: Code: find . -type f -name *.dtx -exec tex {} ; but isn't there something simpler?
I'm not found of shotwell so I installed gthumb. According to the extensions it has the rename extension installed but renaming a file isn't on the menu when you right click on a image.
View 10 Replies View RelatedMy problem is this:I have a number of directories, all containing files of different name lenghts, including letters, numbers and possibly spaces. I want to recursively rename all of these files, so that only the _last_ 5 digits (not counting the extension) remain. In other words: I want to cut off all but the last 5 digits and not touch the extension.
I've tried to read up on tr, rename (perl version), sed, cut etc. and browsed through some threads here, but so far couldn't quite figure out how to do it.
If someone could point me to the right (standard) CLI tools and syntax.
possible to rename a list of files in batch in order to maintain the last part of them, then purge a central section and then again maintain the extension?I.E.:
Code:
file01.qwertyuiop.txt
file02.asdfghjklmnbvzxcqwertyuiop.txt
[code]....
I have a single directory of pairs of files, with the pairs sharing a string as the beginning of the filename:
SF1-27F1492R-clone01_T3_A18_001.ab1
SF1-27F1492R-clone01_T7_A20_002.ab1
SF1-27F1492R-clone02_T3_A19_003.ab1
SF1-27F1492R-clone02_T7_A21_004.ab1
...etc
I need to create a subdirectory for each pair then move the pair into the subdirectory.
I accomplished the first step using:
$find /foo -name '*T3*' -exec mkdir '{}.wrk' ;
I can use a regex to designate the pair and associate the directory, but how do I use regex in a path as the output of a move command?
I used a script that renamed my file eg 'echo webutil.olb | tr [A-Z] [a-z]' i wanted to rename it back to webutil.olb. How do i do this for many other files that i have
View 3 Replies View RelatedI have a considerable number of files in a subdirectory (some fascinating old military clips from archive.org - search on Big Picture if interested). Anyhow, I am downloading them using Internet Download Manager running in an XP virtual machine in VMWare on my Ubuntu 10.04 PC (due to the queuing, restart and speed capabilities of IDM). But I digress - the files are being saved on the host (Samba share) without a file extension. So I have a collection of files with names like
Quote:
The Douglas MacArthur Story
THEY WERE THERE (1960)
I wish to add the extension ".mp4" In Windows this is simply done with the command
Quote:
rename *. *.mp4
This of course does not work in Linux. I have researched the Linux rename command and reviewed a lot of examples. However, I have not found a way to add an extension to a batch of files which are named with no extension to start with. The spaces in the file names also seem to present an issue. At the moment I am renaming them from the Windows VM while they are sitting on the Samba share using the ancient File Manager program from Windows NT which works great on XP. I have experimented with the file rename facility in Gnome Commander however, it does not seem to want to do something so simple.
How would I rename a file say old.txt to new.txt in Linux using commands?
would it be...?
rename old.txt new.txt
I am trying to access a .dd file extension. Do I have to mount it?
VMware-VMvisor-big-3.5.0_Update_2-110271.i386.dd
# fdisk -ul VMware-VMvisor-big-3.5.0_Update_2-110271.i386.dd
Blocks Id System
VMware-VMvisor-big-3.5.0_Update_2-110271.i386.dd1 8192 1535999 763904 5 Extended
VMware-VMvisor-big-3.5.0_Update_2-110271.i386.dd4 * 32 8191 4080 4 FAT16 <32M
VMware-VMvisor-big-3.5.0_Update_2-110271.i386.dd5 8224 106495 49136 6 FAT16
[Code].....
I am trying to grab some files off this file to create a PXE vmware boot.
#!/bin/csh -f
source /xxxx/
set $spicedir = `sim_${1%.*}`
printf "Output folder is %s
" $spicedir
toolcommand -i $1 -o $spicedir
(-o output directory, -i =input)
I got spicedir: Undefined variable in my xterm
How could I match a file name without extension in csh
How will I open a file with extension .pmd in linux ?
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View 1 Replies View RelatedTrying to get the basename of a file without the extension, I found this snippet but it just returns command not found twice:
[Code]....
Also tried (with and without the quotes on input and file_ext):
input=$1
file_ext=.${input##*.}
base=`basename "$input" $file_ext`
executed: convert.sh /path/music.wav But it echoes base as music.wav
I am playing with my LAMP server1. why can i access a php file on the server only by typing http://serverip/file with no .php extension on?2. later i tryed to play with .htaccess, but when i uploaded it to the server it just disappeared, why is that
View 4 Replies View Relatedhow to use a variable in a sed command, but I can't get the output into a variable.
FILE=readme.txt
now i want to remove the extension of filename
so file woud be:
FILE=readme
my script:
NFILE=`echo $FILE | sed 's/.txt//'`
mv ../out/$FILE ../out/$NFILE
FILE=$NFILE
now when i run my script. i get this unknown character extensions in my new file(NFILE).
Y want to rename a bunch of files and directories to remove the space on the names, easy enough right?
Code:
for source in $(find ./); do target=$(echo "$source"|sed -e 's/ /_/g'); mv -f "$source" $target; done
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 I could rename multiple jpg files. Say I copied IMG0001.JPG until IMG0134.JPG from my camera, and want to rename IMG0001 until IMG0064.JPG to 'party01.JPG' untill 'party64.JPG', etc. In windows there was a stupid wizard to rename files when you copied them onto your HD from a camera. Is there any good way to do something similar in ubuntu?
View 1 Replies View RelatedI am quite new to script programming and I am facing an uphill task to rename files in one folder. I have gone through similar posts but most of them deal with renaming files by changing the file extensions.Problem : I have a folder which contains files like bild01.jpg,bild02.jpg. There are more files in the folders which should remain untouched. I want to rename these 'bild' files as follows:
bild01.jpg -----> 1c.jpg
bild02.jpg -----> 2c.jpg
bild30.jpg------>30c.jpg
I would like to create a script as:
#!/bin/bash
npics=`ls -1 bild*| wc -l`
[Code]...
I've got about twenty folders with names such as "Bennett Galleries" or "Athletic House" and I want to rename them to "Bennett_Galleries" or "Athletic_House". Any right utility to use to accomplish this (sed, awk, bash script, etc...)?
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word1
word2
word3
[code]...
hey all i have a folder with lots of random jpegs but they all have the words 'SOMETHINGRANDOM' in there name that i want to remove and i'm trying something like this but it just renames all the files to 'newname'? Code: for filename in *.jpg; do newname=`echo $filename | sed -e 's/SOMETHINGRANDOM//g'` mv $filename newname; done
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