[Novalug] Linux Batch File Renaming

[Wei Wu Wei]

On Mon, Nov 23, 2009 at 10:39 PM, Nino Pereira <pereira at speakeasy.net> wrote:

>> List,
>>
>> over the years I have seen various ways to change file names
>> in a directory, e.g., from lower case to upper case or vice
>> versa, in some automatic way. Unfortunately, I can't remember
>> which program to use with this: awk? , sed? the mind boggles.
>>
>> I have a long list of files without extensions. I want to
>> add an extension (like .pdf or .jpg or .gif). How do you do that?
>>
>> Thank you.
>>
>> Nino

It's really as simple as this [without the brackets]

[for i in * ; do `mv $i $i.ext`; done] where ".ext" is your desired
extension, and where this command is run from the directory where you
want the files modified.

You could also play it safe and use "cp" instead of "mv" to make a
copy of the file with a new extension rather than moving the original
file.

Cheers,
-- 
Julian Russell

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