[gentoo-user] Renaming tons of files

[gentoo-user] Renaming tons of files

[Amar Cosic]

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Hello

I have issue where I have something.TXT something.PDF and I need to rename
them to something.txt something.pdf (so with lower cases) . Is there any
easy way to do this (command,script? )

Thanks

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Re: [gentoo-user] Renaming tons of files

[Daniel Iliev]

On Wed, 27 Feb 2008 16:12:41 +0100
"Amar Cosic" <amar.cosic@gmail.com> wrote:

> Hello
> 
> I have issue where I have something.TXT something.PDF and I need to
> rename them to something.txt something.pdf (so with lower cases) . Is
> there any easy way to do this (command,script? )
> 
> Thanks
> 



Use at your own risk. Make a backup before try.

1)
rename ".PDF" ".pdf" *.PDF
rename ".TXT" ".txt" *.TXT


2)
find . -iname "*.pdf" -o -iname "*.txt" | while read -r oldname
do
	newname=$(echo "${fname}" | tr [[:upper:]] [[:lower:]])
	mv "${oldname}" "${newname}"
done




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Re: [gentoo-user] Renaming tons of files

[Amar Cosic]

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rename command worked (everything is still here :)) ) . Thanks Daniel



On Wed, Feb 27, 2008 at 4:30 PM, Daniel Iliev <daniel.iliev@gmail.com>
wrote:

> On Wed, 27 Feb 2008 16:12:41 +0100
> "Amar Cosic" <amar.cosic@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> > Hello
> >
> > I have issue where I have something.TXT something.PDF and I need to
> > rename them to something.txt something.pdf (so with lower cases) . Is
> > there any easy way to do this (command,script? )
> >
> > Thanks
> >
>
>
>
> Use at your own risk. Make a backup before try.
>
> 1)
> rename ".PDF" ".pdf" *.PDF
> rename ".TXT" ".txt" *.TXT
>
>
> 2)
> find . -iname "*.pdf" -o -iname "*.txt" | while read -r oldname
> do
>        newname=$(echo "${fname}" | tr [[:upper:]] [[:lower:]])
>        mv "${oldname}" "${newname}"
> done
>
>
>
>
> --
> Best regards,
> Daniel
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>
>


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Re: [gentoo-user] Renaming tons of files

[Erik]

Amar Cosic skrev:
> I have issue where I have something.TXT something.PDF and I need to rename
> them to something.txt something.pdf (so with lower cases) . Is there any
> easy way to do this (command,script? )
>   
emerge kde-misc/krename and see if it is useful to you.
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Re: [gentoo-user] Renaming tons of files

[Galevsky]

On Wed, Feb 27, 2008 at 4:40 PM, Erik <esigra@gmail.com> wrote:
> Amar Cosic skrev:
>
>  emerge kde-misc/krename and see if it is useful to you.

emerging extra stuff just for a very simple mv or rename ? Oh my God .....

Gal'
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Re: [gentoo-user] Renaming tons of files

[Alan McKinnon]

On Wednesday 27 February 2008, Galevsky wrote:
> On Wed, Feb 27, 2008 at 4:40 PM, Erik <esigra@gmail.com> wrote:
> > Amar Cosic skrev:
> >
> >  emerge kde-misc/krename and see if it is useful to you.
>
> emerging extra stuff just for a very simple mv or rename ? Oh my God
> .....

The download is 82kB.
The build is < 30 seconds

I shudder to think of the number of times I've written a script to do 
exactly this job, how many times I've seen this exact question on many 
mailing lists and the sheer frustration of dealing with all the edge 
cases. THIS emerge is infinitely cheaper than other way to do the same 
job.

And it's not A rename the OP wants to do - check the thread title

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Re: [gentoo-user] Renaming tons of files

[Etaoin Shrdlu]

On Wednesday 27 February 2008, Alan McKinnon wrote:
> On Wednesday 27 February 2008, Galevsky wrote:
> > On Wed, Feb 27, 2008 at 4:40 PM, Erik <esigra@gmail.com> wrote:
> > > Amar Cosic skrev:
> > >
> > >  emerge kde-misc/krename and see if it is useful to you.
> >
> > emerging extra stuff just for a very simple mv or rename ? Oh my God
> > .....
>
> The download is 82kB.
> The build is < 30 seconds

Well...if you have kde or most of its libraries already in place. 
Otherwise I think it's not as lightweight :-)
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Re: [gentoo-user] Renaming tons of files

[Alan McKinnon]

On Wednesday 27 February 2008, Etaoin Shrdlu wrote:
> On Wednesday 27 February 2008, Alan McKinnon wrote:
> > On Wednesday 27 February 2008, Galevsky wrote:
> > > On Wed, Feb 27, 2008 at 4:40 PM, Erik <esigra@gmail.com> wrote:
> > > > Amar Cosic skrev:
> > > >
> > > >  emerge kde-misc/krename and see if it is useful to you.
> > >
> > > emerging extra stuff just for a very simple mv or rename ? Oh my
> > > God .....
> >
> > The download is 82kB.
> > The build is < 30 seconds
>
> Well...if you have kde or most of its libraries already in place.
> Otherwise I think it's not as lightweight :-)

kde ????

/me double checks original mail....

Oops. That was krename. I read rename and tested such.

/me thinks it's time to remember that only livestock are supposed to get 
Foot and Mouth disease, not geeks <sheepish grin>

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Re: [gentoo-user] Renaming tons of files

[Uwe Thiem]

On Wednesday 27 February 2008, Alan McKinnon wrote:

> /me thinks it's time to remember that only livestock are supposed
> to get Foot and Mouth disease, not geeks <sheepish grin>

People (including geeks) can get it as well. It's hard but possible to 
get infected. Sieve the spores out of your soil. Then inhale *lots* 
of them.

Uwe

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Re: [gentoo-user] Renaming tons of files

[Markus Schönhaber]

Alan McKinnon wrote:

> And it's not A rename the OP wants to do - check the thread title

The thread title, the OP and the OP's reply to the suggestion to let
rename do the job make me think that a rename is exactly what the OP
wants to do.

Regards
  mks


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[gentoo-user] Re: Renaming tons of files

[Amar Cosic]

Yea.. Thanks to all of you for sugestions. Its server without X so
krename is out. Anyway rename did the job. Thanks again

On 2/27/08, Markus Schönhaber <gentoo-user@schoenhaber.de> wrote:
> Alan McKinnon wrote:
>
> > And it's not A rename the OP wants to do - check the thread title
>
> The thread title, the OP and the OP's reply to the suggestion to let
> rename do the job make me think that a rename is exactly what the OP
> wants to do.
>
> Regards
>   mks
>
>
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>


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Re: [gentoo-user] Renaming tons of files

[Alan McKinnon]

On Wednesday 27 February 2008, Markus Schönhaber wrote:
> Alan McKinnon wrote:
> > And it's not A rename the OP wants to do - check the thread title
>
> The thread title, the OP and the OP's reply to the suggestion to let
> rename do the job make me think that a rename is exactly what the OP
> wants to do.

Yes, he does want to rename files - tons of them per the title.

As in, the same behaviour you get from 'ren *.txt *.doc' in Windows and 
DOS. This gets exceptionally painful on *nix if you have a few thousand 
*.txt files



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Re: [gentoo-user] Renaming tons of files

[Markus Schönhaber]

Alan McKinnon wrote:

>> Alan McKinnon wrote:

>>> And it's not A rename the OP wants to do - check the thread title

> Yes, he does want to rename files - tons of them per the title.

Well...

> As in, the same behaviour you get from 'ren *.txt *.doc' in Windows and 
> DOS. This gets exceptionally painful on *nix if you have a few thousand 
> *.txt files

What exactly makes doing
rename .txt .doc *.txt
so exceptionally painful?
OK, if the expanded command line exceeds the length limit, one might
have to combine the above with something like xargs. But I feel neither
pain with that nor the need to write a script or install KDE.

Anyway, this gets purely academic since the OP already said that he
could accomplish what he wanted to by using rename.

Regards
  mks
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