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Bash one-liner to rename files

// bash one-liner for renaming files

for f in `find . -name '*replaceme.jpg'` ; do mv $f ${f/replaceme/withme}; done

to regex bash rename renaming by roop on Aug 23, 2007

Copy and rename files with wildcards (globs)

To copy files jgarner_* to Alias_*:

Dir.glob("jgarner_*") { |name| `cp #{name} #{name.sub(/jgarner_/, "Alias_")}`}

or

ruby -e 'Dir.glob("jgarner_*") { |name| `cp #{name} #{name.sub(/jgarner_/, "Alias_")}`}'

to ruby rename glob copy Dir by johnatl on Jun 19, 2006 1 Comments

Copy files matching a regular expression to a new name

// copy similar files to a new name given a regular expression in ruby

for i in `ls *_1.png`; do echo $i; cp $i `echo $i|ruby -pe '$_.sub!(/_1/, "_0")'`; done

to ruby script file rename by sjspig on Jun 11, 2006