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 set an initial value when batch renaming to sequential numbering?
In this answer, the command rename -n 'our $i; s/_.*/sprintf("_%03d.png", $i++)/e' *.png is used to rename the files abc_128390.png abc_138493.png abc_159084.png ... to abc_001.png abc_002....
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Recursively rename folders removing underscore and every character after
I have hundreds of folders in the following format Foldername45_12345 I'd like to recursively rename them so they are in this format Foldername45 I've been manually doing this over sftp but would ...
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How can 'rename' be used to rename file in a specific directory?
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 ...
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rename "Duplicate specification" for option error
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 ...
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Rename a set of files according to a specific scheme, with rename back option
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 ...
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Rename any number of archives within a directory under a condition [duplicate]
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 ...
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Why can't I merge folders by renaming one of them?
Try to run this mv -- "foldername...__" "foldername..." This will move folder foldername...__ under the folder foldername... instead of renaming it. Why? Note that foldername... ...
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Why do my UTF-8 filenames always match against a regex bracket expression in Perl?
Here is a script to fix broken Cyrillic filenames if the files were moved to Mac from Windows (based on an answer to Revert filenames after they were garbled by using different encoding) #!/bin/zsh # ...
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Duplicate and rename files with matching names but different extensions in bash?
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 ...
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Is there a tool to "recursively" move/rename a directory (with conflicts/merging)?
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 │ │ └── <...> │ └── ...
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Rename multiple files (bulk rename) disabled in MATE v: 1.26.2 (marco v: 1.26.2) on Linux Mint 22 (Wilma)
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. ...
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Replace accented characters with perl-rename
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/(?<=\d-)*\s/_/g; s/...
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I accidentally rename lib/ld-linux-aarch64.so.1 file on my target machine, what should i do?
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.
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Several rename commands in shell script [closed]
Trying to figure out how to include several rename commands in one shell script that I will save as a cron job. What I would like to accomplish is renaming different words and also suppress error ...
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To batch rename files so that spaces will be replaced with underscores
Is it possible to batch rename files in Fish so that the spaces will be replaced with underscores? I tried to figure it out myself, but haven't succeeded yet: https://fishshell.com/docs/current/cmds/...
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