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Yuba Sin
Yuba Sin

Reputation: 141

Renaming files with no extension to random files {1,2...}with an extension

I saw how to rename many files at once and changing their extensions, like this example

$ rename -v 's/\.htm$/\.html/' *.htm 3.htm renamed as 3.html 4.htm renamed as 4.html 5.htm renamed as 5.html

The only problem as you know in Linux, it doesn't need extensions, so my files are without them and want to add jpg extension to them at the same time giving them random number name like 0.jpg, 1.jpg ...

If you could give me a simple bash command to do it and thank you.

Upvotes: 3

Views: 148

Answers (1)

karakfa
karakfa

Reputation: 67567

random file names may have overlaps, if you want use sequential numbers you can try something like this (assuming the files are in the current directory)

$ touch some files without extensions
$ ls
extensions  files  some  without

$ i=0; for f in *; do mv ${f} $((i=++i)).ext; done
$ ls
1.ext  2.ext  3.ext  4.ext

Upvotes: 2

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