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[shoutcrown]

hello!

Can anybody tell me how to rename many files?.

For example if I had 3 files: tv.mp3, radio.mp3, movie.mp3, then how could I rename them to multimedia-1.mp3, multimedia-2.mp3, multimedia-3.mp3?

That is I just want to change the 3 names (not the extension) to a unique name (the numbers i guess can be added automatically). But i want to keep their own extension.

I would like to rename them at once (not 3 times)

thank you!

[musher0]

Hello shoutcrown.

There is an utility called PRename under submenu "FileSystems" that will help you do that in one fell swoop.

Alternatively, cd to the directory where your files are, open a console and copy in it the following:

[postfs1]

[shoutcrown]

thank you guys!

Nevertheless I thought there was a short way to rename the files (to rename many files, using Windows, just select them, right click, write a name, and every file could have the same name ordered with a number)

I think musher0 method is shorter than spostfs1

Thank you anyway! I appreciate your skills!

Bye

[musher0]

Hi, shoutcrown.

Yeah, some copy operations are less intuitive in Linux, but then, it's part of what makes it more secure.

Thanks for the compliment, BTW.

TWYL.

Chris

[postfs1]

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Example-2:
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#Requires the sorting --->>
#find /archive -name tv*.mp3 -or -name radio*.mp3 -or -name movie*.mp3 >/archive/l1 ;
#<<--- Requires the sorting.
ls -1 -R -U /archive/*/tv*.mp3 /archive/*/*/tv*.mp3 /archive/*/radio*.mp3 /archive/*/*/radio*.mp3 /archive/*/movie*.mp3 /archive/*/*/movie*.mp3 >/archive/l1 ;
echo -e "`grep tv /archive/l1|rev|cut -d/ -f2-|rev|uniq`/multimedia-1.mp3\n" "`grep radio /archive/l1|rev|cut -d/ -f2-|rev|uniq`/multimedia-2.mp3\n" "`grep movie /archive/l1|rev|cut -d/ -f2-|rev|uniq`/multimedia-3.mp3"|sed 's/ //' >/archive/l2 ;
paste -d ' ' /archive/l1 /archive/l2 | sed 's/^/mv /' | sed 's/$/ ;/' >/archive/l1andl2 ;
bash -c "`cat /archive/l1andl2`" ;
rm /archive/l1 /archive/l2

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Example-3:
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find /archive -name tv.mp3 -exec rename tv multimedia-1 {} \;
find /archive -name radio.mp3 -exec rename radio multimedia-2 {} \;
find /archive -name movie.mp3 -exec rename movie multimedia-3 {} \;

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Example-4:
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#When there is no care about sorting --->>
find /archive -name *.mp3 >/archive/l1 ;
cat /archive/l1|rev|cut -d/ -f2-|rev|sed 's/$/\/.mp3/'|awk '{print $0 NR}'|sed 's/.mp3/multimedia-/'|sed 's/$/.mp3/' >/archive/l2 ;
paste -d ' ' /archive/l1 /archive/l2 | sed 's/^/mv /' | sed 's/$/ ;/' >/archive/l1andl2 ;
bash -c "`cat /archive/l1andl2`" ;
rm /archive/l1 /archive/l2
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[shoutcrown]

Hi musher0!, I believe you are right. Everybody needs a powerful operating system like "linux", although there are some things which require a long process.

postfs1 example 3 is getting short, that's great

gracias nuevamente!

[musher0]

Hello again, shoutcrown.

To come back on the loop idea, I think this could work.

[shoutcrown]

Well, it's an excellent way to change names, but it doesn't work

I have been trying many times:

- I have tried with Slacko Puppy Linux 531 and Lucid Puppy Linux 528

- I opened the terminal with ("terminal here")

- Also I entered to the directory using commands like "cd...")

- I wrote the commands you say (rename loop...)

After entering the commands there is no change (also terminal doesn't show any error message). So maybe there is some specific charaters or spaces that I can't see when you write

please could you write it again? showing exactly the characteres and spaces

thank you! bye

[musher0]

I'll give it another shot. The example I gave was somewhat "theoretical".
Stay tuned.

[WillM]

See how this works for you shoutcrown.
Might want to test in another directory with a few files.

[musher0]

You probably do not need the loop.

The syntax for rename is
rename .txt .text *.txt

In human language:
rename .txt to .text all *.txt files

OR
rename b c b*
rename from b to c all files beginning with b* (the first letter of all files).

It's a bit tricky. But it's a good programming exercise.

That's all the time I have for now. Sorry.
BFN.

[shoutcrown]

Hi WillM!:

Your method works! Thank you very much!
As you say I tested using a directory with files which aren't important, and I could rename them, keeping their extension, at once (even I didn't need to try 2 times!).

Hi Musher0!

Unfortunately, I can't do it with your method yet. But as I described I don't want to change the extension. Also some times I want to change the names which have completely different names (even there are no letters in common). Thank you anyway

Well this question is really solved! (a short way to rename many files at once, keeping their own extension)

Thank you guys!

[don570]

I wrote a right click utility 'rename-files'

Just right click on a folder.


http://murga-linux.com/puppy/viewtopic.php?t=76919

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[shoutcrown]

Hi don570!

The method using terminal works fine, I think this package is different, because I can see the options:

- change extension to a new extension...
- Add characters to the file name...
- Number files in the folder...
- Replace white space... with underscore...

But I don't want to change the extension, also It's better to change to whole name than to add characters and numbers or replacing white spaces

Thank you anyway!