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Reputation: 2583

Rename files in different folders removing numbers from file names

I'm trying to remove numbers from file names stored in different folders. Specifically, I have 100 folders named: my_folder1, my_folder2, my_folder3,..., my_folder100. In each folder there are files named: my_folder1.txt for my_folder1, my_folder2.txt for my_folder2, my_folder3.txt for my_folder3, ...my_folder100.txt for my_folder100. I need the following output: my_folder.txt for my_folder1, my_folder.txt for my_folder2, my_folder.txt for my_folder3, ..., my_folder.txt for my_folder100. In other words I need to remove the numbers from file names in each folder. I used the following code: 

   for file in `find . -name 'my_folder*.txt'`; do
   mv $file ${file/+([0-9]).txt/.txt}
   done

but the numbers are still there. Can anyone help me please?

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Upvotes: 0

Views: 50

Answers (1)

quant
quant

Reputation: 2224

Are you looking for:

for file in */*.txt; do   mv $file $(dirname $file)/my_folder.txt; done

Upvotes: 1

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