Comments on: Shell Geek: Rename Multiple Files At Once

By: scripter

scripter — Wed, 14 Oct 2009 17:17:16 +0000

By: Keith

Keith — Sat, 21 Mar 2009 15:52:31 +0000

This is great, and I use it frequently for changing filename suffixes.

However, if you are stuck with filenames that contain spaces, you need to quote around the variable and the replacement expression, as shown in the example below.

for f in *;do mv “$f” “${f/\.oga/.ogg}”;done

By: felipe alvarez

felipe alvarez — Tue, 03 Feb 2009 04:41:49 +0000

You are a GOD. This is what I have been looking for. Can this functionality exist outside of “for loop”. How good is Bash’s regex engine? Is it full featured?

“ls [^a}*” finds all files that begin with anything BUT letter “a”. What else is possible?

By: sachadon

sachadon — Thu, 31 Jul 2008 13:54:15 +0000

Hey… thanks a lot for this article … this really saved lot of my time …. i reallly appreciate it …

By: skeptic

skeptic — Fri, 18 Jul 2008 01:39:22 +0000

thanks, really nice article, it has saved me some time and it will alot more in the future.