Ubuntu :: Rename All Files In One Directory?

Dec 31, 2010

I have many files in a directory. They all have names with a .pdf extension. How can I remane all of them so that they are named as so... 1.pdf, 2.pdf, 3.pdf? I want to do it with one command or somehow that I do not have to manually rename each one.

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Ubuntu :: Rename Files In A Directory Randomly?

Jun 19, 2010

I want to rename all files in a directory to "random" names(the point is that the name does not exist, it can be anything). In my case is it *.wav file i want to rename, i basically want to burn cd's to my pc with cdparanoia, then rename them and put them in a directory with other songs i have which also have been given random names. (i'm creating a big music directory where the songs have no names)And i will eventually make a script to make things easier, but for some reason i can't think out a way to rename the files randomly, and i guess "$RANDOM" is a good variable to use but.. how?EDIT: And while i'm at it, is there any way to use the "play" command in the terminal, by "sorting" music files in a directory randomly, and then play them, so it will not be played the same order again?

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Jul 25, 2011

How would I rename all files with a leading decimal point recursivley? I some how got all my music files to have a decimal point.I tried the below and got a " sed argument to long".[CODE]find /media/MUSIC -type f -name "*.wma" | xargs -0 sed -i 's/.(.*)/1/'[CODE]

Another question, can i just use -type f with out -name ? I am sure that all the files got the decimal point added as the first character.

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Mar 26, 2010

I'm pretty new to bash scripting, but I really want to wrap my head around it.What I'm trying to do is: From directory "A": Go in to all subdirectories and rename all files within icrementally according to the directory name. SO:

|-- Varian
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| |-- FB1-page133.pdf.png

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May 17, 2011

I have a directory which was downloaded and has a silly name like "-=Directory=-" on my headless (no GUI) linux box and when I try to deal with this directory using "mv" in order to rename it or move it somewhere, it simply does not work. Terminal instead says:

Code:
mv: invalid option -- '='

how I can rename or move it?!

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Jan 30, 2011

I want to do the following.

1. have a directory full of subdirectory

2. Pick the first file from every sub and copy that to the main directory and also rename that file to the same name as the subdirectory's name

3. need to work in commandline best is a simple script.

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Jan 12, 2011

I have bought an external usb hard drive on which I back up my three computers every once in a while.Space will quickly be used up.I can't find that little bit of research that I need yesterday.Here is what I would like to find:An application that eliminates doubles in identical files and renames files that have changed by appending the last saved date yyyymmdd to the file name.Does such an application already exist?

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May 7, 2009

Until now i haven't had to dabble with bash scripts.

I have a program that reads in data files. These are named datafile01_R, datafile01_G, datafile01_B, they then increment, so datafile02_R etc i have about 600 of these. the program reads in 3 data sets at a time from each run, so files_01 r, g, and b.

The program then does its magic, and outputs about 40 different files, depending on the file, they gone to folders named R, G, B, psa, or tracking.

The program itself has configuration files to say where the files should gone when analyzed, there is also the config files that reads in the data sets.

At the moment i have to run one set of data, then go in and manually change the input file location, and run again. But, doing this, even though a different data set, the new set overwrites the old set in one of the output folders. So i need a way to increment the output filenames after they are written and before the program is run again with the new data set.

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Ubuntu Multimedia :: Rhythmbox Metadata Loss After Directory Rename

Jan 29, 2011

Rhythmbox seems unable to handle a directory rename. My problem is the following:

1. Create a playlist in Rhythmbox with some songs in it.
2. Close Rhythmbox.
3. Rename the directory with the songs in it.
4. Open Rhythmbox.
5. The songs are gone from Rhythmbox' index and can be found under "Missing Files". New versions of the songs show up, but this is not very helpful, as the playlist is empty.

I searched the web and found a known bug which occurs if step 2 is left out (that is, a directory rename with Rhythmbox open). However, in my case, even changing a directory name without Rhythmbox running breaks its file index.

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Debian :: Rename An Existing User And His Home Directory?

Sep 29, 2009

How is the best way to rename an existing user and his home directory under Debian Lenny? BTW I'd like to have the same settings like Desktop Icons, Bookmarks etc.

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Oct 25, 2010

Newbie 1st post here. Trying to find the most efficient way to copy a file to a different directory and rename it with a date stamp extension. Looking to accomplish this with one command if possible.

File = make_file
Full path /home/user1/bin/scripts/make_file

would like to move to the following directory /home/user1/bin/scripts/archive/

I'm trying to find out how to use command substitution along with the date command that when I copy the file to the archive directory it gets renamed with a time stamp extension. It should look something like "make_page_12:00:00-24-10-2010" I've tried a few different combinations using the cp and mv commands but can't seem to get it to work the way I want to.

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General :: Copy A File And Rename It At The Same Time While Copying It To The Same Exact Directory?

Jun 26, 2010

Create a copy of the file above and call it commands.sorted. Use the vi command to manually sort this file. I.e. use yy to copy a line, P or p to paste a line, and dd delete a line. Order the commands with the two lines starting with double quotes first. Then list the rest of the command in alphabetical order.

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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Jul 8, 2011

Im trying to auto rename badly named mp3's using info from the id3 tag. I got a nice little program called id3ren, it works fine apart from it doesn't add the track number. Cant figure how to enable this function. The track numbers are in the ID3, but it just renames to Artist/Trackname. Any other users on here?

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Jun 30, 2011

How would i go about copying files to a directory, yet skip the files that already exist in the directory, and also remove the files that are in the directory. For example:

Code:

$ls /dir1
img001.jpg
img002.jpg

[code]....

Now i would like to copy from dir1 to dir2, but the contents of dir2 would be:

Code:

$ls /dir2
img003.jpg

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Ubuntu :: Rename All Files In Folder?

Oct 14, 2010

I have this script:

Quote:

for f in d*; do mv "$f" "T${f#d}"; done

it outputs all files which strats with letter d to T but it doesn't work when i run it from Cron. It only affect root file / .

How i can make work like this:

/home/user/files/dfile.txt
=>
/home/user/files/Tfile.txt

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Nov 8, 2010

I guess the title says it all. I'm looking for a program that will rename a massive amount of files at once. JPGs specifically, or PNGs. More specifically,I'm creating a stopmotion movie. Using the program StopMotion. And for that, all you pictures, or frames, have to be named 001.jpg 002.jpg and so on. I've got about 300 or so images, and they're all named the default thing that my camera names them, you know, like DSCIM8520 or whatever. I'm looking for maybe a command line program or GUI is fine too, that will do this for me.

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Jan 12, 2011

I need to find and rename all .JPG files to .jpg in a folder with subfolders. How would I go about this?

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Jul 11, 2011

The music files as named like the following: 01 Music Title. I would like to get them as: Band Name - Music Title. I looked into the rename command and I was thinking of doing something like this:

Code:
rename "s/(the first two integers)/Band Name -/g" *.mp3

The problem is that I don't know how to indicate the first two integers. Does anyone know how to do this?

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Feb 14, 2010

Getting together a script that will add numbers to all the files in a folder.

I've ripped most of my CDs to oggs for my new pmp, but I found that the pmp doesn't like files that are numbered just as 1 and 2, as it thinks that the 2 is more than 10.

So instead of going through all of my music folders and renaming every file by hand from 1 to 01 and from 2 to 02, I'd ask if there's a script that can be executed to add these numbers for me. It'd be even better if it only added the number to the files with only one digit.

Here's an example:

I want to rename:

And I'd like to do it to all single-digit files lower than 10 in the folder, if possible. If not, I can isolate them by hand.

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Sep 10, 2010

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?

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Sep 11, 2010

In my photos folder, I have hundreds of folders, each with Picasa.ini files.

Unfortunately, a lot of these files are actually ".picasa.ini" files & Picasa 3.0 does not recognize them.

All I want to do is rename all those ".picasa.ini" files to "Picasa.ini".

If there was a GUI way to do this, all in one go, then that would be my prefered method.

I couldn't find one, so reluctantly tried Terminal. After a lot of reading & trying, still no success.

"locate .picasa.ini" finds all the files easily.

I tried many variants around: "rename -v -n 's/.picasa.ini$/Picasa.ini/' .picasa.ini" to run a simulation without screwing anything up yet, but at best they only seem to rename one occurence, not all the files.

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Feb 22, 2011

I 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
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[Code]...

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Oct 20, 2010

I need help with renaming files and folders in one go.
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Jan 26, 2010

Could someone help me find a way to rename a file to a different name containing parts of its old name?

For example:

Original file name: filename1.abc.xyz.some.other.stuff
Final file name: filename1.abc.xyz

The length of the file name is not constant. the abc.xyz is not constant but that format is (three numbers.three numbers) the .some.other.stuff is not constant and its what i want to get rid of

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Feb 24, 2010

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May 21, 2010

I'm trying to figure out how can I fill up multiple files with easytag. It looks like one can do it by selecting all files and using one of the schemes like " %a - %b/%n - %t " but to be absolutely honest I have no clue how it works. I'd like to fill up all selected files' tags with Artist, Title, Album, Year, Track# and Genre. How can one do it ?

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Nov 11, 2010

i recently restarted my computer so i baked up all my files to my external terabite restarted my computer pluged in my 2 drives and formated the wrong one DAMB so i lost every file i ever downloaded DAMB i used photorec to get it all back but all my files have system names eg f12223/f12224 etc but when i load the files to media player the correct name i displayed in the media player so is there a program i can get that will rename all the files on my drive with the names the have in propertys

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May 18, 2011

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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General :: Ssh Command To Rename Files?

Dec 22, 2009

What is the ssh commands to rename a group of files?

I need to rename:
avatar_01.jpg
avatar_02.jpg

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Jul 1, 2010

I just downloaded a copy of the Old Testament onto my laptop from the Windows side of my desktop.Alas, all of the links are in lower case and all of the file names came across in upper.way to rename all of the files in a directory to be in lower case instead of upper?

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