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Jimson James
Jimson James

Reputation: 3297

Rename multiple files in a directory with single bash command

I'm trying to rename multiple files in a directory. The intention is to remove the trailing _bkp extension. What I've come up with is as shown below, but as you all know, this wont work, but you get the idea. Any help??

find -iname "*.sql_bkp" -exec mv {} sed -e 's/\_bkp//g' {} \;

or

find -iname *.sql_bkp -exec mv {} $(sed -e 's/\_bkp//g' {}) \;

Upvotes: 1

Views: 72

Answers (2)

VIPIN KUMAR
VIPIN KUMAR

Reputation: 3127

Try this -

$find -iname "*.sql_bkp" -exec basename {} _bkp \;

OR

$for i in *.sql_bkp; do mv "$i" "$(basename "$i" _bkp)";done

Upvotes: 0

anubhava
anubhava

Reputation: 784868

You can use:

find . -iname '*.sql_bkp' -exec bash -c 'echo mv "$1" "${1%_bkp}"' - {} \;

When you're satisfied with the output, just remove echo before mv

Upvotes: 3

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