Such a question shows the power of bash programming.
Method1 :
ls -1 *.jpg | while read file; do mv "$file" \
"donald_$file"; done
Method2 :
ls -1 *.jpg | awk '{ print "mv "$1" donald_"$1; } | \
/bin/bash
Method3 :
find -name "*.jpg" -exec mv {} donald_{} ';'
On Fri, 30 Dec 2005 11:57 am, Jerry McBride wrote:
> On Thursday 29 December 2005 08:24, Marco Calviani wrote:
> > Hi list,
> > maybe this question is a little bit related since it regards non
> > Gentoo-specific topics.
> > I would like to add a specific suffix to a list of files. For
> > example i have files of the type:
> >
> > duck1.jpg
> > duck2.jpg
> > duck3.jpg
> >
> > and i would like them to become:
> >
> > donald_duck1.jpg
> > donald_duck2.jpg
> > donald_duck3.jpg
> >
> > Does somebody knows a simple way to do this via shell?
>
> Did anyone mention RENAME???
>
> A simple "rename duck donald_duck duck*.jpg" would work well also....
>
> Cheers.
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