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billyduc
billyduc

Reputation: 712

Linux: find a match pattern and rename whole file with that Match

I have hundred of id file with format like this 

106527-Sup, Perman  .jpg
106528-Iron, man  .jpg
106529-Bat, man  .jpg
106530-Spider, man  .jpg

I need to rename them to 

106527.jpg
106528.jpg
106529.jpg
106530.jpg

How do I it with regex and rename command

Upvotes: 0

Views: 90

Answers (1)

Maroun
Maroun

Reputation: 95998

You can use perl-based rename:

rename 's/^(\d+).*jpg$/$1\.jpg/' *.jpg
  • ^ matches the position at the beginning of the input
  • \d+ matches one or more digit
  • .* matches everything in between
  • $ matches the position at the end of the input

The first group ($1) contains the digits you want to replace with.

Upvotes: 2

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