Questions tagged [rename]
The rename tag refers to the action of giving a different name to either an existing file or to a copy of a file as part of some other operations (.e.g. remote copy, backup). Use this tag as well for questions related to the (perl) rename command.
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How to rename large number of randomly named file at one go?
In a directory I have large number of randomly named '.wav' files. For example
090913yui.wav
jiyafa123.wav
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awe-6rt.wav
I want to change the file names to
file1.wav
file2.wav
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and so on
Can ...
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How to rename files in Linux like the ren command in Windows
I need to rename a bunch of files (more than 100) on an Ubuntu system, and want to know how to I do that when the pattern of the files is something like "Filename_01.jpg" to "...
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renaming files based on matched pattern in another file
I have a list of files:
out_CCGCGGTT+CTAGCGCT_R1.fq.gz
out_TTATAACC+TCGATATC_R2.fq.gz
out_GGACTTGG+CGTCTGCG_R1.fq.gz
out_AAGTCCAA+TACTCATA_R2.fq.gz
...
the adaptor IDs (between the two underscores, ...
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How to use sed on symbolic linked files?
I have some symbolic linked files and some normal files like below:
P_2_UC34_31_1.gz
P_2_UC34_31_2.gz
P_2_UC34_32_1.gz
P_2_UC34_32_2.gz
P_2_UC34_33_1.gz
P_2_UC34_33_2.gz
P_2_UC34_31_1.gz and ...
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Move and rename multiple subdirectories to new location
My directories are setup in this way:
dir 1
001
11-20-2001-RT SIMULATION-57976
002
11-20-2001-RT SIMULATION-30560
003
08-24-1998-RT SIMULATION-72882
and so on for about 250 entries. My goal is ...
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how to rename last part of multiple file in linux [duplicate]
I want to rename to files from below format to below format . How can i rename last part ?
cheatsheetold1.gz.aux
cheatsheetold2.gz.log
cheatsheetold3.gz.out
cheatsheetold4.gz.pdf
cheatsheetold5.gz....
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Renaming batch files for PLEX
I am attempting to rename a batch of .mkv files from the original format to the preferred PLEX format. I am having difficulty with sed and with rename and with mv. I hope it is just a syntax error I ...
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Rename directory hierarchy
How can I rename directory hierarchy?
For example I want to rename c/d to x/y
There won't be necessary only 2 folders.
So the full directory path /a/b/c/d/e becomes /a/b/x/y/e after the operation.
Not ...
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Renaming files in Linux using perl scripting
I have a set of files with prefix, say "pre_", on a Linux machine and I just want to rename all of these files by removing that. Here is the perl code I wrote it doesn't throw any errors, ...
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The loop for file renaming doesn't work right
There are 32 *.dds files in a folder:
pic-0.dds, pic-1.dds, pic-2.dds,...,pic-31.dds
I'd like to rename them to be:
015040.dds, 015041.dds, 015042.dds,...,0150471.dds.
I'm trying to use the ...
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How to rename a one file name with another file part name in the same directory?
the database I am using is Unix and I am trying to automate where I want it to rename the file for me when I run it instead of me going to file and manually rename it.
For example.
Two files in the ...
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Undoable rename [duplicate]
I have a large number of files (specifically, my music collection) that I plan to rename (using Ex Falso).
I have the files backed up, so in principle I can restore if necessary, but that would be ...
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Rename multiple folders using external string manipulation tool
I am using ccase.
The following command works.
$ mv camelCase (ccase -t Kebab camelCase)
Now I am trying to rename multiple directories using:
$ find . -type d -execdir rename 's/(.*)/$(ccase -t ...
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Need to batch rename files with names from text file using core utils
So I am a bit of a noob and have a problem at work. There is a program outputs names in a ie
apple
banana
orange
P1n34ppl3
The problem is that the files that correspond to that (separate program) are ...
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Removing certain numbers from batch of filenames
I have a batch of files that contain the numbers 21 to 29 in the middle of the file name. As I do not want to remove that number for hundreds of files by hand I tried using Terminal:
for f in *;
do ...
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Is there a *BSD equivalent of MacOS renameatx_np, atomic swap file renaming?
I am looking to create a *BSD compatible C function like the one below:
int
fs_ext__swap (const char *from, const char *to) {
int res = renameatx_np(AT_FDCWD, from, AT_FDCWD, to, RENAME_SWAP);
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How to find the text between the nth occurence of a character and occurence n+1 with perl-rename?
perl-rename 1.14-1
Arch Linux: linux 6.2.12.arch1-1
I have a directory/folder with several subdirectories, all are named by one of the following patterns
Status quo of existing patterns
something-...
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Bulk rename directories with spaces
I have a bunch of files and directories containing white spaces (several of them in each file name) and I'm trying to remove them. I am plagged with the 'dumb' rename that does not understand regex. ...
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How to rename all files of the same name to another name in all subdirectories
I have a bunch of subdirectories with nested directories that have files with the name
output.txt
. I would like to rename all those files to
output_modified.txt
I tried
find . -type f -name "...
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Changing numbers in name of the file using terminal
I have a large number of files with names file00.txt, file01.txt etc in a folder. Is it possible to rename all where the numbers will change to (4000+200*number) in terminal? I want the name of the ...
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gvsf (GNOME virtual file system) on usb-ios, when I git clone, I get: fatal: could not set 'core.filemode' to 'false' , due to OS service to rename
I usb-connect my ios device on my linux laptop. The linux system mounts a gvfs point to it (/run/user/1000/gvfs/afc:host=xxxxxxxxxx,port=3), I change directory there, I can rsync back and forth, but I ...
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Change file name based on contents
I'm trying to rename a set of files based on what is in the file itself. I have likely more than a thousand files to rename by the time I'm done. I have code that will get me the first part of the ...
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How can I rename files recursively using a regular expression
I have hundreds of files on a hard drive with many directories and sub directories which start with:
1.1, 1.2, 1.3, 2.1, 3.1, 9.1, 10.1, 10.2, Etc Etc...
The problem is that when I list them they ...
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Rename .gz files according to names in separate txt-file
I want to rename .gz files according to names in separate txt-file.
I have a map with .gz files with the names:
trooper10.gz
trooper11.gz
trooper12.gz
etc.
and I have a separate txt-file with the ...
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Using 'TREE' for sub-subdirectories
Is it possible to use tree to create several output files without being cd ~/ into the directory I want to create a tree file?
For example, I have a directory called parent-dir.
Inside of parent-dir ...
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Command to gather all specified text files, rename them, and copy them to a folder
I have thousands of text files called file.txt. Because they all share the same name I cannot move them to the same folder without them overwriting.
I need a command that will locate all of the file....
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qmv from renameutils doesn't support non-ASCII characters? $EDITOR shows bytes instead of Unicode chars
export $EDITOR=nvim
mkdir -p /tmp/qmv
cd /tmp/qmv
touch 👨💻
qmv -f do *
In Neovim (and nano too) it shows this:
\360\237\221\250\342\200\215\360\237\222\273
instead of this:
👨💻
Is this a bug? ...
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rename first two periods to hyphens
I have the following command to change periods to hyphens in file names recursively, so long as they have another period both before and after them:
find path/to/dir -depth -type f -name '*.*' -exec ...
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How to combine files from incrementing directories into one directory
I have a directory structure that follows this kind of pattern:
- Dir 01 (Disc 1) \
- Dir 01 (Disc 1).iso
- Dir 01 (Disc 2) \
- Dir 01 (Disc 2).iso
- Dir 01 (Disc 3) \
- Dir 01 (Disc 3).iso
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Moving the year at the end of a directory name to the front, possibly convert into YYYY-MM-DD format
I exported all my pictures from Mac to my PC (Windows 11, but also running Ubuntu through PowerShell). The export created every directory (1000s of folders) in formats like the following and stripped ...
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Renaming ogg files starting with i-
I have a directory with ogg file, and want to change file names starting with i-.
What can I do? For instance, doing rename 's/i-nuovi/nuovi/g' * gave me
Unknown option: marino-barreto-cinque-minuti-...
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Copying/moving and renaming files from multiple subdirectories to parent directory
I have multiple directories, and each one of those directories contains an "example" directory which in turn contains images. What I want to do, is to add a textual suffix at the end of a ...
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PascalCase to lowercase-hyphen
I am new to renaming and have many files and folders in pascal case that I would like to convert to lower case, separated by a hyphen. I would like to run the command on both files and folders, ...
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Renaming files with .- [duplicate]
Wanted to rename files that have string sequence .- in the file name.
But the command outlined here removes any character preceeding -.
rename 's/.-/-/g'
How can I fix this?
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Removing starting gl- using rename
I have a list of files, for instance
./2020/47-06/gl-086115.org
./2020/47-06/gl-085792.org
./2020/47-06/gl-086941.org
./2020/47-06/gl-087140.pdf
./2020/47-06/gl-085982.pdf
./2020/47-06/gl-087032.org
./...
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What are the different versions of the rename command? How do I use the Perl version?
This is a mess. How do I know which command to use when we expect Perl's rename with s/// sed-like syntax, when there're tons of different implementations of rename, that are different versions of the ...
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Changing names of files using find and rename [duplicate]
I am using the rename command to replace geo from the name of files residing in the current directory.
rename "s/geo//g" *
Because I have many directories with files in them, what can I do ...
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Replace all periods with hyphens recursively
To replace all spaces with hyphens, in all files/folders, in all sub-directories, I run the following:
find /path/to/folder -depth -name "* *" -execdir rename 's/ /-/g' "{}" \;
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Recursively remove square brackets and their surrounded contents from file name
I am trying recursively remove parenthesis and it's contents ([.*]), if it is at the beginning of the file name.
For example, [Author1]BookName.epub should be renamed to BookName.epub.
But when ...
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Rename numbered files based on a list of corresponding names [closed]
I want to rename my files using a .txt file with proper names
These are my files:
lesson1.mp4
lesson2.mp4
lesson3.mp4
...
This is my txt file with names:
1 Entry to vim
2 Basics of vim
3 Vim motion
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Bulk renaming files from TitleCase -> Title Case (space separation) [closed]
I have a 38GB folder with 800 MP4 videos in it. After re-downloading it, the file name has no spacing, and all words are joined, but it's still TitleCase.
So from TitleCase I need Title Case.
What ...
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Rename filenames in different folders
I have a bunch of directories like the following with multiple files in each of them
.
├── 20150320
├── 20150321
├── 20150322
├── 20150323
├── 20150324
├── 20150325
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Then I've put together ...
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Rename files using regex to delete part of name
I have a bunch of files that I have to process on a Linux machine. The files look like this:
2009-08-18T034353_DR1_4N-NAC_123456_1234_band1.ntf
2009-08-18T034353_DR1_4N-...
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Number a bunch of files in a serial order with number as prefix
So, I've got 58 files on a Linux machine, with the sort of filenames given below:
Theory of Computation (TOC) ｜ Basics of TOC ｜ Lec 1 ｜ GATE Computer Science⧸IT Engineering Exam [7DOPjYGtnTQ].mp4
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Bulk rename files with numbers of unequal widths
I have files like
file1.txt
file2.txt
file3.txt
...
file11.txt
file12.txt
...
file100.txt
file101.txt
...
I'd like to rename them to have the same string width like
file001.txt
file002.txt
file003....
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Bash script to rename files excluding names in array
I currently have a script where I rename files by removing whitespace and certain names.
This is about 200 names so far so I though an array of names I want to exclude would be a better option.
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Removing Asterisks in filenames
I have a number of files which contain "*" in various areas of the filename.
*DOCUMENT.xls
***OTHER DOCUMENT***.DOC
Does anyone have a suggestion to remove all instances of * from the names ...
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How can I bulk rename a lot of files on Ubuntu?
I have a directory that contains files named in pattern as:
[HorribleSubs] One Piece - 01 [1080p].mkv
[HorribleSubs] One Piece - 02 [1080p].mkv
These files go up to 700.
I wanted these files to get ...
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bulk rename mp3 songs
I have hundreds of thousands of .mp3 songs recovered with testdisk and producing results such as in a directory:
f196833984.mp3
however, when loaded in Rhythmbox, they show up as originally tagged.
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Untar file tar compressed file to different directories [duplicate]
I have a .tar.gz file which may have the following files:
folder1/folder2/folder3/imp_folder1/file11.jpg
folder1/folder2/folder3/imp_folder1/file12.jpg
folder1/folder2/folder3/imp_folder2/file21.jpg
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