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Rob Williams
Rob Williams

Reputation: 1470

Linux rename files based on another file in the directory?

I've got about 750 directories that contain two files each:

long_somewhat_random_filename.jpg
thumb.jpg

What I'd like to do is use find or something similar to rename thumb.jpg to long_somewhat_random_filename_thumb.jpg. My brain's kinda fuzzy at the moment.

I could do it with a perl script, but if there's a somewhat easy way to do it in bash, that's easier.

Upvotes: 10

Views: 2075

Answers (1)

SiegeX
SiegeX

Reputation: 140327

Give the script below a shot. Right now the echo makes it benign so you can try before you buy so to speak. If you like what you see, remove the echo and run the script again to actually make the changes.

#!/bin/bash

while read file; do
 echo mv "${file%/*}/thumb.jpg" "${file%.*}_thumb.jpg"
done < <(find . -type f ! -name "thumb.jpg" -name "*.jpg")

Input

$ find . -type f -name "*.jpg"
./dir1/dir1_foo_bar.jpg
./dir1/thumb.jpg
./dir2/dir2_foo_bar.jpg
./dir2/thumb.jpg
./dir3/dir3_foo_bar.jpg
./dir3/thumb.jpg
./dir4/dir4_foo_bar.jpg
./dir4/thumb.jpg
./dir5/dir5_foo_bar.jpg
./dir5/thumb.jpg

Output

$ ./mvthumb.sh
mv ./dir1/thumb.jpg ./dir1/dir1_foo_bar_thumb.jpg
mv ./dir2/thumb.jpg ./dir2/dir2_foo_bar_thumb.jpg
mv ./dir3/thumb.jpg ./dir3/dir3_foo_bar_thumb.jpg
mv ./dir4/thumb.jpg ./dir4/dir4_foo_bar_thumb.jpg
mv ./dir5/thumb.jpg ./dir5/dir5_foo_bar_thumb.jpg

Upvotes: 10

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