I need to rename a part of a Java JAR file and I need to keep the version numbers in the filename: Original file: hello-service-0.1.0.jar Expected file: hello-my-service-0.1.0.jar The following command does the job properly, but I need to be in the directory where the file sits, so I need to change-directory before run the rename command: cd "$dir" rename --verbose "s/hello-service/hello-my-service/" *.jar cd - But as I run the rename from a bash script, I would like to avoid the boilerplate code that change directory before and after the rename command. **I have something like this:** dir="/home/me/projects/hello/jar" actual="hello-service" expected="hello-my-service" rename --verbose "s/$actual/$expected/" *.jar How to specify the directory name for the rename command?

I would like to change a file extension from *.txt to *.text. I tried using the [basename](https://man7.org/linux/man-pages/man1/basename.1.html) command, but I'm having trouble changing more than one file. Here's my code: files=ls -1 *.txt for x in $files do mv $x "basename $files .txt.text" done I'm getting this error: >basename: too many arguments Try basename --help' for more information

The other day something started going wrong with the perl rename terminal command that was pre-installed on my system; which is Ubuntu 22.04.5 LTS. When I try to use any version of the rename command I get the following message: Duplicate specification "V|version" for option "v" Duplicate specification "E=s" for option "e" By this I mean that any attempts at using rename, including simply rename -h bring up this error. rename -h will still print out the help information, which is as follows for my version of rename (2.02)

Duplicate specification "V|version" for option "v"
Duplicate specification "E=s" for option "e"
Usage:
    rename [ -h|-m|-V ] [ -v ] [ -0 ] [ -n ] [ -f ] [ -d ] [ -u [enc]]
    [ -e|-E perlexpr]*|perlexpr [ files ]

Options:
    -v, --verbose
            Verbose: print names of files successfully renamed.

    -0, --null
            Use \0 as record separator when reading from STDIN.

    -n, --nono
            No action: print names of files to be renamed, but don't rename.

    -f, --force
            Over write: allow existing files to be over-written.

    --path, --fullpath
            Rename full path: including any directory component. DEFAULT

    -d, --filename, --nopath, --nofullpath
            Do not rename directory: only rename filename component of path.

    -h, --help
            Help: print SYNOPSIS and OPTIONS.

    -m, --man
            Manual: print manual page.

    -V, --version
            Version: show version number.

    -u, --unicode [encoding]
            Treat filenames as perl (unicode) strings when running the
            user-supplied code.

            Decode/encode filenames using encoding, if present.

            encoding is optional: if omitted, the next argument should be an
            option starting with '-', for instance -e.

    -e      Expression: code to act on files name.

            May be repeated to build up code (like "perl -e"). If no -e, the
            first argument is used as code.

    -E      Statement: code to act on files name, as -e but terminated by
            ';'.

If I attempt any actuall usage of the program, even as simple as rename -n -s/\.txt//' * the program stalls out and freezes after printing the error message. As far as I have been able to find digging around for help and answers, the issue is apparently due to Getopt::Long somehow ignoring case, despite the fact that File::Rename::Options is meant to specifically turn on no_ignore_case when it calls Getopt::Long. I have tried updating, upgrading, and cleaning apt and apt-get, purging and then reinstalling rename, updating/upgrading Perl, along with basic computer updates and restarting. If anyone knows what is going on to cause this, or has a solution, I'd be extremely grateful.

In Linux in a directory there are files, ls -1 shows me this output : file1.1-rvr file1.2-rvr file1.3 file1.4-rvr file1.5 file1.6-rvr file2.1 file2.2 file3.1 file3.10 file3.2-rvr file3.3-rvr file3.4 file3.5 file3.6 file3.7 file3.8 file3.9 file4.1 file4.2 file5.1-rvr file5.2 file6.1 file6.2 file6.3 file6.4 file7.1 file7.2-rvr file7.3 file7.4 file7.5 file7.6 file8.1 file8.2 file8.3-rvr file8.4 In this directory are only files with file names that begin with file. There are no other files in there. file1.* is a package file2.* is a (different) package too and so on. Each package should have its own random name. For the randomness i will use. cat /dev/urandom | tr -cd 'a-zA-Z0-9' | head -c $(shuf -i 8-32 -n 1) In each package, the . should be renamed to .part.rar. Files with -rvr should renamed too. For example: file3.1 file3.10 file3.2-rvr file3.3-rvr file3.4 file3.5 file3.6 file3.7 file3.8 file3.9 should be renamed for testing and experimenting to: rfiqDLhZF5XxRcJXkqR1LrwniDi.part01.rar rfiqDLhZF5XxRcJXkqR1LrwniDi.part10.rar rfiqDLhZF5XxRcJXkqR1LrwniDi.part02.rar rfiqDLhZF5XxRcJXkqR1LrwniDi.part03.rar rfiqDLhZF5XxRcJXkqR1LrwniDi.part04.rar rfiqDLhZF5XxRcJXkqR1LrwniDi.part05.rar rfiqDLhZF5XxRcJXkqR1LrwniDi.part06.rar rfiqDLhZF5XxRcJXkqR1LrwniDi.part07.rar rfiqDLhZF5XxRcJXkqR1LrwniDi.part08.rar rfiqDLhZF5XxRcJXkqR1LrwniDi.part09.rar (If there are a *.10, 1 must be rename to 01.) But there must be a way to note (in a file ../renamed) the renaming in order to rename them back to the original filenames later. For renaming all files in random names, i can use this, but i dont know how to work with the .part.rar renaming. for file in file*; do while true; do RANDOM_NAME=$(cat /dev/urandom | tr -cd 'a-zA-Z0-9' | head -c $(shuf -i 8-32 -n 1)); if [ ! -f ${RANDOM_NAME} ]; then echo "${file}" "${RANDOM_NAME}" >> ../renamed mv "${file}" "${RANDOM_NAME}"; break; fi done done For renaming back, i can use this one liner : `while read old new rest ; do mv $new $old ; done .rar and back again. EDIT I am looking for a way to do that in Bash. Here is a complete list with the current file names and the new filename scheme: current name new name ------------ -------------------------------------- file1.1-rvr --> cL5617iQyc8kT5GwNoi.part1.rar file1.2-rvr --> cL5617iQyc8kT5GwNoi.part2.rar file1.3 --> cL5617iQyc8kT5GwNoi.part3.rar file1.4-rvr --> cL5617iQyc8kT5GwNoi.part4.rar file1.5 --> cL5617iQyc8kT5GwNoi.part5.rar file1.6-rvr --> cL5617iQyc8kT5GwNoi.part6.rar file2.1 --> QuMPmQjppRSuG3QL9xy5.part1.rar file2.2 --> QuMPmQjppRSuG3QL9xy5.part2.rar file3.1 --> rfiqDLhZF5XxRcJXkqR1LrwniDi.part01.rar file3.10 --> rfiqDLhZF5XxRcJXkqR1LrwniDi.part02.rar file3.2-rvr --> rfiqDLhZF5XxRcJXkqR1LrwniDi.part03.rar file3.3-rvr --> rfiqDLhZF5XxRcJXkqR1LrwniDi.part04.rar file3.4 --> rfiqDLhZF5XxRcJXkqR1LrwniDi.part05.rar file3.5 --> rfiqDLhZF5XxRcJXkqR1LrwniDi.part06.rar file3.6 --> rfiqDLhZF5XxRcJXkqR1LrwniDi.part07.rar file3.7 --> rfiqDLhZF5XxRcJXkqR1LrwniDi.part08.rar file3.8 --> rfiqDLhZF5XxRcJXkqR1LrwniDi.part09.rar file3.9 --> rfiqDLhZF5XxRcJXkqR1LrwniDi.part10.rar file4.1 --> cLYtCmUW.part1.rar file4.2 --> cLYtCmUW.part2.rar file5.1-rvr --> uXjOgcreTUCC7aHKkXeWPL1SiVdX.part1.rar file5.2 --> uXjOgcreTUCC7aHKkXeWPL1SiVdX.part2.rar file6.1 --> 9CcsiBYcuASF0ECoS.part1.rar file6.2 --> 9CcsiBYcuASF0ECoS.part2.rar file6.3 --> 9CcsiBYcuASF0ECoS.part3.rar file6.4 --> 9CcsiBYcuASF0ECoS.part4.rar file7.1 --> SXKymGb5Z9ImrQ0K51IUAA.part1.rar file7.2-rvr --> SXKymGb5Z9ImrQ0K51IUAA.part2.rar file7.3 --> SXKymGb5Z9ImrQ0K51IUAA.part3.rar file7.4 --> SXKymGb5Z9ImrQ0K51IUAA.part4.rar file7.5 --> SXKymGb5Z9ImrQ0K51IUAA.part5.rar file7.6 --> SXKymGb5Z9ImrQ0K51IUAA.part6.rar file8.1 --> 5poLf4stv6.part1.rar file8.2 --> 5poLf4stv6.part2.rar file8.3-rvr --> 5poLf4stv6.part3.rar file8.4 --> 5poLf4stv6.part4.rar But all before .partX(X).rar should be random and generate with : cat /dev/urandom | tr -cd 'a-zA-Z0-9' | head -c $(shuf -i 8-32 -n 1)

I'm using ubuntu linux and have huge folders of

.pdf

or

.odt

even sometimes

.zip

(or sometimes other formats however the first two are the most common). To access them through the command shell easily and fast I need their names to have no spaces between words, until now I used the command

and renamed each one by hand adding underscores ( _ ) between words wich is really time consuming. ¿Is there a way to rename files within a directory specifying the condition of replacing spaces with underscores?. Thanks everyone, I'm new and I think I asked this question in the wrong community, hope this time is the right one.

I am writing a bash script to copy/move a folder called "folder" to a directory that already contains "folder" and I would like the contents to be merged. I am attempting to use a solution from this question: https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/127712/merging-folders-with-mv cp -rl source/folder destination rm -r source/folder If i type the first line in the terminal, source "folder" and destination "folder" are merged as expected. However, When i run the script with the line in it, instead of merging the folders the destination now contains two folders; "folder" and "blank", where "blank" has the contents of the source "folder" in it.

How can I rename all the files in a specific directory where the files contains blanks spaces and special characters ($ and @) in their names? I tried the rename command as follows to replace all the spaces and special characters with a _: $ ls -lrt total 464 -rwxr-xr-x. 1 pmautoamtion pmautoamtion 471106 Jul 17 13:14 Bharti Blocked TRX Report Morning$AP@20150716.csv $ rename -n 's/ |\$|@/_/g' * $ ls -lrt total 464 -rwxr-xr-x. 1 pmautoamtion pmautoamtion 471106 Jul 17 13:14 Bharti Blocked TRX Report Morning$AP@20150716.csv $ The command works, but won't make any changes in the file names and won't return any error either. How can in fix this and are there other ways as well?

Try to run this mv -- "foldername...__" "foldername..." This will move folder foldername...__ under the folder foldername... instead of renaming it. Why? Note that foldername... already exists. I want to merge them into a single directory. This may be applied to thousands of folders within a script. So I am searching for a general solution. I know that one or two dots have a special meaning for Linux. But I can't find any answer to why this is happening when these dots are in the middle of the filename. And how can I do it? ## 1st UPDATE How can I rename folders and merge them *if they already exist* with existing folders? What I tried rename -f "s/\.\..*/\.\./g" * Can't rename foldername...__ foldername..: Directory not empty (echo must be changed to eval for execution) for i in *.jpg; do echo "mv \"$i\" \"echo "$i" | sed 's/\.\.[0-9]\+\+/\.\./g'\""; done; Answers in other forums are very complex like here ## 2nd UPDATE mv and rename fail. Then the next best thing is a script. If after echo applying renaming, folder names exist, move all files under the current or 1st renamed folder, and if empty, delete all other failed-to-rename folders.

Here is a script to fix broken Cyrillic filenames if the files were moved to Mac from Windows (based on an answer to https://unix.stackexchange.com/q/792464)

#!/bin/zsh

# Usage:  
# Requires Perl::Rename

find "$1" -mindepth 1 -print0 |
  rename -0 -d -e '
    use Unicode::Normalize qw(NFC);
    use Encode qw(:all);

    if ($_ =~ /[†°Ґ£§•¶І®©™Ђђ≠]/) {
      my $check = DIE_ON_ERR | LEAVE_SRC;
      my $new = eval {encode("UTF-8",
                      decode("cp866",
                      encode("mac-cyrillic",
                      NFC(decode("UTF-8", $_, $check)), $check), $check))
                     };
      if ($new) {$_ = $new;} else {warn $@;}
    }'

I want it to rename only those files in the target direcotry that have at least one of the following characters in their filenames: †°Ґ£§•¶І®©™Ђђ≠. But for some reason the script renames all of the files there instead: for example, a correct filename срочно.txt is changed to a meaningless ёЁюўэю.txt. What I'm doing wrong? The path to my test folder is simply /Users/john/scripts/test: no spaces and no Cyrillic or special characters. The script is used on macOS and with BSD-version of find. An update two days after the question was answered: Stéphane's Chazelas and Choroba's versions work fine for me. Terdon's version doesn't work for me yet.

Is there some *simple* way to duplicate both .cpp and .h files (or any multitude of extensions) simultaneously in bash, instead of:

cp foo.cpp bar.cpp
cp foo.h bar.h

I'm not looking for shell script answers or complicated find syntax or anything like that; I'm just wondering if there's something maybe built into bash that does this in a simple way.

I have a directory full of files stored in subdirectories according to their filename, i.e.: 20d1/d325/52d1/20d1d32552d1a95249e62662fbdf924dd72c4027.jpg ccaf/13cf/3199/ccaf13cf319930e80f5f2ad02525b93e1326c160.jpg ec07/53bd/2355/ec0753bd2355fa8ec5cf5163e219c162cce3b03a.jpg ... As you can see, the first 12 characters of the filename are used to create three levels of subdirectories. Unfortunately four characters per directory name were chosen, and as it happens the amount of files has grown beyond the directory limit of 32000 entries per directory on the filesystem. So they need to be rewritten to: 20d/1d3/255/2d1/20d1d32552d1a95249e62662fbdf924dd72c4027.jpg cca/f13/cf3/199/ccaf13cf319930e80f5f2ad02525b93e1326c160.jpg ec0/753/bd2/355/ec0753bd2355fa8ec5cf5163e219c162cce3b03a.jpg ... So three letters per directory instead of four. There are a ton of files, so the process should be as fast as possible. I have dabbled around with find: find /path/to/files -mindepth 4 -type f -regextype posix-extended -regex \ ".*/([0-9a-f]{4}/){3}(([0-9a-f]{3})([0-9a-f]{3})([0-9a-f]{3})([0-9a-f]{3})[0-9a-f]+\.\w+)" This prints all the files nicely, but I'm not sure how to proceed with the rewriting. I'd like to use the regex capture groups in the rewrite process to rewrite the path to $3/$4/$5/$6/$2 (backreferences to find regex). But find doesn't seem to support something like: find ... -exec cp {} /elsewhere/$3/$4/$5/$6/$2 ; What is the best approach to handle this? Some combination of sed and xargs (I'm not very experienced with those)? Should I go for a loop instead of a find action? I'm a little lost.

I have a directory that is unpacked, but is in a folder. How can I move the contents up one level? I am accessing CentOS via SSH.

During importing my music files from backup (thanks to default naming scheme of rhythmbox), I have messed up the file names. Now the looks like: 00 - American Pie.ogg.ogg.ogg.ogg 00 - American Pie.ogg.ogg.ogg.ogg.ogg 00 - another brick in the wall.ogg.ogg.ogg.ogg 00 - another brick in the wall.ogg.ogg.ogg.ogg.ogg 00 - candle_in_the_wind.ogg.ogg.ogg.ogg 00 - candle_in_the_wind.ogg.ogg.ogg.ogg.ogg While the file should look like American Pie.ogg another brick in the wall.ogg candle_in_the_wind.ogg And I have (as from wc -l) 3096 such files. How can I restore it in batch mode? I have tried rename and mmv to work, as given in the ans of this question, but not working (problem with the rename syntax, and for mmv,there is collision). Any help please?

Imagine I want to move (rename) a directory tree /var/lib/postgres/data to /var/lib/postgres/data.old:

/var/lib/postgres
└── data
    ├── base
    │   ├── 16390
    │   │   └── 
    │   └── 
    │       └── 
    ├── global
    │   └── 
    ├── pg_wal
    │   ├── 
    │   ├── archive_status
    │   └── summaries
    ├── 
    └── postmaster.pid

Typically, it's a single rename() syscall away and a single command away: mv data data.old. However, imagine that there is an active mountpoint somewhere in that directory tree, e.g., pg_wal is a different filesystem:

$ findmnt

├─/var/lib/postgres                           stank/data/stratofortress/PostgreSQL                              zfs       rw,noatime,xattr,posixacl,casesensitive
│ └─/var/lib/postgres/data/pg_wal             stank/data/stratofortress/PostgreSQL/pg_wal                       zfs       rw,noatime,xattr,posixacl,case-sensitive

Alternatively, imagine that the target name (data.old) already exists and some branches of the directory tree are already created (because they are mountpoints, in the same vein as above). ~~In both these cases~~ In the latter case, mv will refuse to do anything. Performing a deep copy with something like a cp -a is prohibitively expensive, and reflinks are unavailable for reasons that are outside of the scope of this question. --- Is there a tool that can perform an optimal "recursive move", iteratively descending into parts of the source hierarchy for each subtree that cannot be renamed wholesale, up to individual files (finally falling back to making a copy of each individual file if needed)? **NB: I'm looking for a generalized solution that can be extended to any number of subtrees and conflicts, i.e., mv data/* -t data.old; mv data/pg_wal/* -t data.old/pg_wal is not a solution. In other words, please do not infer any constraints or special cases from the example above.**

Before my last system upgrade, I enjoyed the functionality of renaming multiple files in the system GUI file manager (I use Marco in MATE). This is also called "bulk rename", e.g. here . However, I notice that this functionality has been disabled in my new version (MATE v: 1.26.2 (marco v: 1.26.2) on Linux Mint 22 (Wilma)),and I have read that this is because of potential risks. I have searched around, but I have found only instructions on how to enable back this functionality for Cinnamon, here . Can someone help me with MATE?

I'm standardizing the name of several files at once, so I wrote a regex for perl-rename: perl-rename 'y/A-Z/a-z/; s/ã|á|â/a/g; s/é|ê/e/g; s/í/i/g; s/õ|ó/o/g; s/ú/u/g; s/ç/c/g; s/(? 2024-12-01-certidao_de_matricula However, I thought it could be simplified a bit, so I came up with this: perl-rename 'y/A-Z/a-z/; y/ãáâéêíõóúç/aaaeeioouc/; s/(? 2024-12-01-certidaao_de_matraccula Why is the second command not working, since it should be doing a direct transliteration of each accented character? I can't even make sense of the outcome. Thanks in advance.

I have created the following script that move old days files as defined from source directory to destination directory. It is working perfectly. #!/bin/bash echo "Enter Your Source Directory" read soure echo "Enter Your Destination Directory" read destination echo "Enter Days" read days find "$soure" -type f -mtime "-$days" -exec mv {} "$destination" \; echo "Files which were $days Days old moved from $soure to $destination" This script moves files great, It also move files of source subdirectory, but it doesn't create subdirectory into destination directory. I want to implement this additional feature in it. with example /home/ketan : source directory /home/ketan/hex : source subdirectory /home/maxi : destination directory When I run this script , it also move hex's files in maxi directory, but I need that same hex should be created into maxi directory and move its files in same hex there.

I accidentally renamed ld-linux-aarch64.so.1. Now I cannot connect my target machine with SSH. How can I rename it back? I will not consider to reflash my target machine.

I am trying to make a small utility for myself on the command line - for a given current work directory I would like to find the most recently added file and mv it to a name given by argument I have been trying to achieve this via: ls -tr | tail -n 1 | xargs -0 -J % mv % SQL_warning_2.png ...however bash reports:

mv: rename Screenshot 2020-06-22 at 17.53.23.png
 to SQL_warning_2.png: No such file or directory

I would guess that this means that xargs is making separate arguments via spaces in the filename: Screenshot 2020-06-22 at 17.53.23.png, but there is no -print0 flag for ls that I am aware of. If some of my assumptions are incorrect please excuse me - I am very unfamiliar with xargs

I was trying to copy several files to a DVD with growisofs. The command I use is:

-shell
growisofs -Z /dev/dvd -R -J  /media/34GB/tmp/

But when I send it to command line, I receive this message

I: -input-charset not specified, using utf-8 (detected in locale settings)

and then countless messages like these for many of my files.

Using F1_SC000.JPG;1 for  /media/34GB/tmp/imagens/paper doll ultimos/F1-SCAN1194.JPG (F1-SCAN1189.JPG)

How can I avoid these renaming? I made a full record, and to my surprise, the final file names are correct, despite the renaming messages. Why these messages appeared then?