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Renaming only part of a file using CLI [duplicate]

I realise this might be quite a simple question, but I'm still quite new to the command line and only have a grasp of basic commands. I've downloaded some lecture presentations (~25 or so) from my ...
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How to strip directory structure with command line (or script)

I have a large collection of files packed into a two-level directory structure with many, many, many folders. In other words, I have a folder with a great many subfolders in it. There are no ...
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Can one move a relpath in one command?

This question is similar to one I asked recently, but the answers to that question, for the most part, do not extend to this one, AFAICT. The main difference between the two questions is that the ...
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How do I get this find and rename command to work with subdirectories? [duplicate]

Possible Duplicate: Recursive rename files and directories I have a large directory of music files that is often changing as files and directories come and go. My preference is to make sure ...
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Best way to continue stopped move (mv) by merging directories?

I have moved (mv) a pretty large directory on my NAS (Linux based), but had to interrupt the procedure. Not being a regular Linux user, I though I could just continue and merge the rest later in. mv ...
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Batch copying/moving files in unix?

Is there a way to batch copy/move files in unix? I thought it might be an option for cp/mv but I can't find any way to do it.
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Removing apostrophe from all file names

I tried to remove apostrophe from all files' names in the directory. for i in *; do mv $i `echo $i | tr -d "'"`; done After executing this command nothing is renamed. Do you know what's wrong ...
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Unique file name for different files

I'm working with graphic design. I've downloaded many files (EPS files, PSD files, etc) from various websites. Because it come from various websites, after downloaded from more than 10 different ...
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How can I use ms-dos style wildcards with ls and mv?

I have the misfortune of coming from a MS-DOS background - but at least it makes me appreciate how much more powerful Linux is. I've been working on getting my Linux-Fu up to par, but there are a ...
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Move with possible rename

Is it possible to construct a command that will move the file to another directory and if the same file is already there, generate some random string that is not in the name of some file in the ...
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mv a file without breaking a symlink to that file

Is it possible to mv a file w/out breaking a symbolic link to that file? My initial response to this is no, and I'm working out a script based solution to change the links immediately following the ...
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Multiple renaming files [duplicate]

Possible Duplicate: How to clean up file extensions? I'd like to rename files with extension .flac.mp3 to extension .mp3. I used the following command $ for i in *; do mv $i `echo $i | sed ...
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How to overwrite target files with mv?

I have a ton of files and dirs in a subdirectory I want to move to the parent directory. There are already some files and dirs in the target directory which need to be overwritten. Files that are only ...
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Selective recursive move?

Is there a command like mv --preserve-structure src src/1 src/2/3 dst which creates dst/1 and dst/2/3? It should work similar to mv src/* dst, but move only the subtrees listed.
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Lowercasing all directories under a directory

I want to lowercase every directories' name under a directory. With which commands can I do that?
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How do you bulk move files up one directory safely?

How can I move files up a directory where there might be hundreds or thousands of files in the directory, and you might not be sure about whether there are dupes in ... What method would you use? How ...
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How can I move files and view the progress (e.g. with a progress bar)?

When moving large directories using mv, is there a way to view the progress (%)? The cp command on gentoo had a -g switch that showed the progress.
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Command-line mv exclusion list

Is there a way to mv,cp, or any file operation such that I could specify all the files I don't want affected? For example, say I have a folder with the files file1, file2, and file3, and I want to ...
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How can I move files by type recursively from a directory and its sub-directories to another directory?

What would be a good way to move a file type from a directory and all of its sub-directories? Like "move all *.ogg in /thisdir recursively to /somedir". I tried a couple of things; my best effort was ...