Need to change a lot of file names!

[slayer17]

Hey folks I am looking for a script that will change mulitiple file names in a dir. ie. mandrake_office.menu to redhat_office.menu. And help would be loved.

Happy V-Day,

slayer17

[X_console]

I thought I'd leave this for some Perl guru to answer but seeing that no one else has posted, here's my version. I'm assuming that all of your files with "mandrake_"? So you have files like mandrake_foo.txt, mandrake_penguin.jpg, mandrake_essay.doc, and such right? This script will change "mandrake_" to "redhat_"... I call it, drake2hat :)


#!/bin/bash

printf "Directory to work on: "
read dir

if [ -z "$dir" ]; then exit 0; fi

cd $dir
for i in *; do
suffix=$(echo $i | awk -F_ '{print $NF}')

x="redhat_"$suffix

mv $i $x

done


By the way, this will add redhat_ to any other files that don't start with mandrake_ So if you don't want that to happen, create a temporary directory (say ~/myTemp) and do "cp mandrake_* ~/myTemp) and run the script there.

[slayer17]

Thanks alot man! I will let you know the outcome!

[slayer17]

Thanks alot man! I will let you know the outcome!