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19 questions linked to/from How do I change the extension of multiple files?
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How to change extension of all files in a directory? [duplicate]
There are some extensionless files in current directory (there are not dot in their names).
I want to rename like so:
filename -> filename.md
I tried doing mv * *.md but that didn't help.
I am ...
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Change only the extension of a file [duplicate]
I am working on a simple shell script to change a file one.PDF to one.pdf. I have this file stored in a folder called Task1.
My script is in the same directory as Task1. Called Shell1.sh When I run ...
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How can I rename all files in the current directory having a particular extension to another extension? [duplicate]
Possible Duplicate:
Renaming multiple files (changing extension)
Suppose that in my current/working directory I have five files:
file1.xvg
file2.xvg
file3.xvg
file1.eps
file2.eps
Is there any way ...
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Renaming all files in folder in Bash [duplicate]
How to rename all the files in the directory in such a way the files get added "_1" before ".txt"
apac_02_aug_2017_file.txt
emea_02_May_2017_file.txt
ger__02_Jun_2017_file.txt
To
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Renaming all files in a directory while keeping the same initial part of the name [duplicate]
I have a directory full of files. I want to rename all the files that match *.py to -backup.py. How do I do that.
I know I can use for i in *.py, but from there I'm not sure how to keep the ...
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I want to rename all files in a directory from *.ts to *.mkv [duplicate]
Rename all the files in .ts files in a directory
My echo command works but not if I try to make it a new variable.
#!/bin/sh
for file in "${1}"/*.ts; do
echo ${file} | sed -e 's|.ts|.mkv|'
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Changing file extensions [duplicate]
Possible Duplicate:
Renaming multiple files (changing extension)
Suppose I have a bunch of files with the extension .x and I want to change them so that they have the extension .y. I know $ mv *.x ...
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Is there a way to rename all files in a directory? [duplicate]
Ubuntu 16.04
I'm pretty new to linux and have a large number of files an the directory dir. These files have postfix _uploaded.
Is there a way to rename all this files and set them postfix _handled ...
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Searching for multiple files and changing file extension [duplicate]
I want to search and identify multiple files, within a directory, having a particular file extension (.txt) and changing the extension to (.fasta). This is considering not changing the file itself, ...
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Move files shell script [duplicate]
I have a shell script ren.sh
#!/bin/bash
/usr/bin/mv /home/imp/imp/msgs/$1.PK1 /home/imp/imp/msgs/$1.BRD
/usr/bin/mv /home/imp/imp/msgs/$1.PK2 /home/imp/imp/msgs/$1.MIX
It works fine, but it only ...
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Rename multiple files if they endswith "md" to "sh" [duplicate]
Given that I intent to change files with extensive name of .md to .sh
$ ls
bath.md breakfast.md brush.md test.sh
I wrote it as
$ cat test.sh
#! /usr/local/bin/bash
for f in *
do
if $f ...
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What does "--" (double dash / double hyphen) mean?
I have seen -- used in the compgen command.
For example:
compgen -W "foo bar baz" -- b
What is the meaning of the -- in there?
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What's the difference between 'rename' and 'mv'?
It's not completely clear to me, but what is the difference between mv and rename (from util-linux-ng 2.17.2 as /usr/bin/rename)? Are there advantages of one over the other beyond rename accepting ...
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how to change dot to underline in multiple file-names?
I have over 100 files named like
x.assembled.forward.fastq.gz
x(n).unassembled.reverse.fastq.gz
the problem is that the pipelines that I am working with do not accept 'dots' in the file name and I ...
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Why is the rename utility on Debian/Ubuntu different than the one on other distributions, like CentOS?
On CentOS, the rename command uses two simple strings, from and to.
rename from to file...
while on Debian/Ubuntu it uses a perl-style regular expression.
rename [ -v ] [ -n ] [ -f ] perlexpr [ ...
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