renaming (lots of) files in bash

By brian | Published: January 9, 2009

I found this method the other day. Unfortunately, I forget where.

$ for f in `ls -1 | grep string`; do mv $f ${f/string/replace};done

I’d like to find a method of using the bash command `find’, but this is pretty clean, and I don’t yet know how to manipulate the `{}’ in find -exec {} \;

great site for explaining bash variable manipulation.

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2 Comments

  1. Nate Murray
    Posted January 9, 2009 at 3:08 pm | Permalink

    I also really like Robin Barker’s perl rename script:

    http://tips.webdesign10.com/files/rename.pl.txt

  2. Adam Avilla
    Posted March 5, 2009 at 1:41 pm | Permalink

    you can use find using find instead of ls -1

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