Batch rename

[Florian Diesch]

Jim Farrow <jimf at graybox.co.uk> writes:

> On Thu, 2009-08-20 at 19:08 -0400, Keith Clark wrote:
>> I need a command to rename quite a few files (25) from a .jpeg extension
>> to a .jpg extension.
>> 
>> Keith
>> 
>> 
>> 
>
> I'm not an expert but this works for me.
>
> for i in *.jpeg; do mv $i `echo $i|sed 's/jpeg/jpg/'`; done

It doesn't work for files that have whitespace in there names or have
"jpeg" not only as extension but somewhere else in the name.



   Florian
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