Rename files

**jesterthejedi** · April 27th, 2009

That worked but appended the word new to all the files, IE

newback.png, newadd.png, etc

I just want to leave the original link name in tact

back.png add.png

**kaibob** · April 27th, 2009

Originally Posted by jesterthejedi

That worked but appended the word new to all the files,...

Sorry, there was an error in my earlier command, which I've now fixed. The correct command is:

Code:

rename -v 's/^Link to //' *

BTW, if you now have a bunch of files that begin with new, you can remove new with the following command:

Code:

rename -n 's/^new//' *

The -n option in the above command directs rename to do a dry-run and report proposed changes. Then, if all appears well, substitute -v for -n to actually rename the files.

**jesterthejedi** · April 27th, 2009

Thanks for your help. I will be able to add 5 sets to my icon theme and only require 1 hard set of png files and save massive space.

**FredVanH** · February 28th, 2010

I shared the frustration DeMus felt with the Rename examples she quoted in her post of February 21 and wished instead for some base instruction Formats. Either that page didn't have them or I glossed over the page too fast. Anyway, I was happy to see mb_Webguy's suggestion - to use instead GPRename, at least to start. I did and, although it also lacks a manual, found the main page to be extremely intuitive and able to satisfy any renaming need I might have in the near future. Thanks, DeMus, for bringing this up and thanks, mb_Webguy for taking the time to make the suggestion (and, of course Tristesse, et al, for writing it)!

Regards,
Fred

**scenerio** · March 18th, 2010

Speaking of fun with perl... I have a hundred photos that I want to add "-thumb" on the end of the filename before the extension. Can anyone steer me in the right direction as to how I would do that with a bash command?

e.g.

photo1.jpg needs to be photo1-thumb.jpg

I would like to batch rename all the files in a folder at once.

Thank you for any help. My perl is not so good.

**geirha** · March 19th, 2010

In POSIX shells:

Code:

for f in *.jpg; do mv -iv "$f" "${f%.jpg}-thumb.jpg"; done

(See http://mywiki.wooledge.org/BashFAQ/073)

Or with prename:

Code:

prename -n 's/\.jpg/-thumb.jpg/' *.jpg

**scenerio** · March 19th, 2010

Hi Geirha,

Thank you for the help.

- Phil

**qole** · December 22nd, 2012

I just want to say that my script works just as well in Ubuntu 12.10 as it did in previous versions of Ubuntu. Saves me tons of time when importing photos from the camera. I lost the script when I reinstalled Ubuntu, thankfully I had posted it here on the forum so I could just follow my own instructions!