How to remove specific file extensions recursively in subdirectories?
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From: Nicole on 22 Jun 2008 17:24 The task at hand is renaming thousands of files within about one hundred directories and subdirectories, and I am sure there must be an easy way to do it from the command line, but right now I can't think of it and it's driving me mad... I need to get rid of two specific extensions that were added erroneously to the files: '_.don' and '.don' For instance, files that are now named 'report.kwd_.don' 'travel.html.don' and 'miami.txt._.don' must be moved to 'report.kwd' 'travel.html' and 'miami.txt' and, as I said, I need to process thousands of files like that in over a hundred directories and subdirectories that way. Is there a simple console command I can use within linux that will do all that recursively? Thank you so much for your help. Nicole
From: 1PW on 22 Jun 2008 18:35 Nicole wrote: > The task at hand is renaming thousands of files within about one > hundred directories and subdirectories, and I am sure there must be an > easy way to do it from the command line, but right now I can't think > of it and it's driving me mad... > > I need to get rid of two specific extensions that were added > erroneously to the files: > '_.don' and '.don' > For instance, files that are now named 'report.kwd_.don' > 'travel.html.don' and 'miami.txt._.don' must be moved to 'report.kwd' > 'travel.html' and 'miami.txt' > and, as I said, I need to process thousands of files like that in over > a hundred directories and subdirectories that way. > > Is there a simple console command I can use within linux that will do > all that recursively? > > Thank you so much for your help. > > Nicole Hello Nicole: Although you might very well receive the information you need in the groups you have posted this to, I would suggest you also post to the nice folks in the comp.unix.shell group where the "heavy-duty" "bash/sed/awk" folks are more likely to see this. They just love this sort of thing! Best wishes. -- 1PW @?6A62?FEH9:DE=6o2@=]4@> [r4o7t]
From: Nicole on 22 Jun 2008 19:00 On Jun 22, 3:29 pm, ray <r...(a)zianet.com> wrote: > Are you familiar with 'find'? If not, I can give a little guidance. That would be great, and hopefully it will be something that can be done quickly and effectively. I have wasted several hours on this already... Thanks! Nicole
From: Nicole on 22 Jun 2008 19:01 On Jun 22, 3:35 pm, 1PW <barcrnahgjuvf...(a)nby.pbz> wrote: > Although you might very well receive the information you need in the > groups you have posted this to, I would suggest you also post to the > nice folks in the comp.unix.shell group where the "heavy-duty" > "bash/sed/awk" folks are more likely to see this. > > They just love this sort of thing! > > Best wishes. Done! Thanks for suggesting it. Nicole
From: Nicole on 22 Jun 2008 20:04
You were right, 1PW! Dan from comp.unix.shell suggested: find /dir/hier/archy -type f -print0 | xargs -0 rename _.don "" find /dir/hier/archy -type f -print0 | xargs -0 rename .don "" and it worked like a charm, a perfect solution to that problem! Thanks again, Nicole |