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renaming a directory and its subdirs without affecting their files

I have to rename directories under the root directory with prefix "ms_PF" and then rename their subdirectories with the modified name of the main directory with an extra "_", and then copy all ...
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Trying to do arithmetic in Perl rename tool (Debian)

Supposed I have five mp3 files: 01-trackfoo.mp3 02-trackbar.mp3 03-trackbaz.mp3 04-trackabc.mp3 05-trackxyz.mp3 Now I give a quick listen to the files (just mplayer on console will do the trick) ...
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How to move files into newly created directory on condition in shell/perl

It was a mess of music files and directory. It is needed to perform the below operation over multiple directories at once: If the directory contains ".jpg" files, then create a new directory ...
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Renaming files to have lower case extensions with 'rename'

I'm trying to currently rename a large set of files and have been using quite kludgy methods to do so, such as: rename 's:(.*)\.MOV:$1.mov:g' *.MOV rename 's:(.*)\.JPG:$1.jpg:g' *.JPG What I'd ...