How can I rename a lot of files with a single command?

pujolasdf · 07-20-2005, 04:38 AM

I have a lot *.WAV files, I want all them to be *.wav (lowercase)... I have foo.WAV I would doo mv foo.WAV foo.wav and that's it, but what if I have more than one (with a single command) ?

rcainc · 07-20-2005, 04:58 AM

Hi,

for foo in *.WAV ; do mv $foo `echo $foo | sed 's/$.*\.$WAV/\1wav/'` ; done

should work

pujolasdf · 07-20-2005, 05:03 AM

Uhm... it says that 'misses a file as an argument'. By the way, how that stuff about advanced commands like sed and so (perl regular expressions?) are called so I can learn more about them?

rcainc · 07-20-2005, 05:19 AM

Sorry ,
this command should work, i just copy/past it

for advanced doc you should try one of the best ressource :

http://www.tldp.org/

Have fun

chandru.in · 07-20-2005, 05:27 AM

Just type,

Code:

rename .WAV .wav *.WAV