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2006-01-30, 05:17 AM
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Are you sure this is the Sci-Fi Convention? It's full of nerds!
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Shell batch rename command/script
I'm hoping someone can help me figure out how to batch rename files recursively thru a directory on our server......ie I'd like to rename all files starting with "thumb_" to "tn_" leaving the remainder of the file name intact so that thumb_pic01.jpg would be renamed tn_pic01.jpg
Any help is greatly appreciated 
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2006-01-30, 05:36 AM
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find . -name "thumb_*.jpg" -exec echo "mv '{}' '{}'" \; | sed 's/thumb_/tn_/2' | /bin/sh
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2006-01-30, 05:55 AM
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Are you sure this is the Sci-Fi Convention? It's full of nerds!
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Nice one swedeguy Thanks alot!
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2006-01-30, 06:44 AM
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Kids are great, Appu. You can teach them to hate the things you hate and they practically raise themselves now-a-days, you know, with the internet and all
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Also MMV is a very nice tool for the shell which can not rename only, you also can move files, folders etc.
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2006-01-31, 05:18 PM
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You can now put whatever you want in this space :)
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