Rename particular set of files (Linux)

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I have the following files:

boxScoreBaseball.html.php
boxScoreBasketball.html.php
boxScoreBowling.html.php
boxScoreCheer.html.php
boxScoreCrew.html.php
boxScoreCrossCountry.html.php
boxScoreEquestrian.html.php
boxScoreFieldHockey.html.php
boxScoreFootball.html.php
boxScoreGolf.html.php
boxScoreGymnastics.html.php
boxScoreHockey.html.php
boxScoreLacrosse.html.php
boxScoreRugby.html.php
boxScoreSkiing.html.php
boxScoreSoccer.html.php
boxScoreSoftball.html.php
boxScoreSwimming.html.php
boxScoreTennis.html.php
boxScoreTrack.html.php
boxScoreVolleyball.html.php
boxScoreWaterPolo.html.php
boxScoreWrestling.html.php

I would like to take the boxScore portion off of each file, so, for example, boxScoreBaseball.html.php would become baseball.html.php. What the easiest way to do this?

See rename.

Shawn Chin
– Shawn Chin

2012-05-25 16:25:38 +00:00
Commented May 25, 2012 at 16:25 — Shawn Chin
– Shawn Chin, Commented May 25, 2012 at 16:25

pzanoni · Accepted Answer · 2012-05-25 16:28:09Z

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Probably only works with Bash:

for i in boxScore*; do mv $i ${i#boxScore}; done

I always use this reference for quick-and-dirty bash stuff: http://aurelio.net/shell/canivete/en/ (see section 4).

answered May 25, 2012 at 16:28

pzanoni

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There's nothing particularly Basish here. Take care to use double quotes around file names, though.

tripleee
– tripleee

2012-05-25 16:56:10 +00:00
Commented May 25, 2012 at 16:56

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Bram · Accepted Answer · 2012-05-25 18:58:12Z

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Another option is to use mmv (See this article for more examples).

For the given example:

mmv "boxScore*.html.php" "#1.html.php"

answered May 25, 2012 at 18:58

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Community · Accepted Answer · 2017-05-23 12:41:44Z

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You can't directly rename all, you must use a bash script. Maybe these links will be usefull for you:

edited May 23, 2017 at 12:41

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answered May 25, 2012 at 16:31

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dflemstr · Accepted Answer · 2012-05-25 16:32:43Z

Run this little shell script:

for file in *; do echo "${file:8}" | sed -e 's/^\([A-Z]\)\(.*\)/\l\1\2/' | xargs mv "$file"; done

We iterate through every file in the current directory. First, we echo the file name without the first 8 characters. Then we use sed to convert the first character to lower case. The sed search expression means "beginning of line, group 1: an uppercase letter, group 2: the rest", and the replacement expression means "lowercase matching group 1, and then append group 2". The last part just moves the old file to the transformed file name.

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