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Alexandre ELIOT
Alexandre ELIOT

Reputation: 316

Rename recursively files ending with extension '.mpeg' with Ubuntu

I have found a command to rename all files extensions recursively in a directory to another extension but what I'd like to do is to change their names instead of their extensions... Here is the code I use (it does not work)

find . -type f -name "*.mpeg" -exec rename -v 's/*.mpeg$/' video.mepg '{} \;

Thank you for any constructive reply

Upvotes: 0

Views: 71

Answers (1)

Chris Rouffer
Chris Rouffer

Reputation: 763

find ./ -type f -name \*.mpeg -exec rename -v 's/^(.*)\/.*.mpeg$/$1\/video.mpeg/' {} \;

This will rename the file portion to video.mpg, but leave the directory structure the same.

Here is the result:

ubuntu:~/stackoverflow$ find ./ -type f -name \*.mpeg -exec rename -v 
's/^(.*)\/.*.mpeg$/$1\/video.mpeg/' {} \;
./dir1/dir2/dir3/test.mpeg renamed as ./dir1/dir2/dir3/video.mpeg
./dir1/dir2/dir3/dir4/test.mpeg renamed as 
./dir1/dir2/dir3/dir4/video.mpeg
./dir1/dir2/test.mpeg renamed as ./dir1/dir2/video.mpeg
./dir1/test.mpeg renamed as ./dir1/video.mpeg

Upvotes: 1

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