This one is a bit of a monster but further highlights that anything you can do in Perl can be done with rename. rename 's/.*/use File::MimeInfo qw(mimetype extensions) $&.".".extensions(mimetype($&))/e' * What if you are handed a bunch of files without extensions? Well you could loop through and use things like the file command, or you could just use Perl’s File::MimeInfo::Magic library to parse the file and hand you an extension to tack on. We could do that with an substitution-expression like: s//uc($&)/ge Fixing extension based on actual content or MIME In this case we can remap all lowercase characters to uppercase with a simple translation: $ touch lowercase UPPERCASE MixedCase Until now we’ve been using substitutions and expressions but there are other forms of Perl expression. $ rename 's/\d+/sprintf("%d-tmp", $& + 1)/e' * -vįile4-tmp.ext renamed as file4.ext Changing a filename’s case Let’s start by creating a few files: $ touch dog. I’m using -vn here so the changes aren’t persisting. You’ve got a bunch of files that have the wrong junk in their filenames in them, or you want to change the formatting, or add a prefix, or replace certain characters… rename lets us do all this through simple regular expressions. This is probably the most common usage for rename. Replacing (and adding and removing) with s/././ f will give permission for rename to overwrite files. If you are in any doubt about your syntax, sling -vn on the end to test. v will make it tell you what it’s doing and -n will make it exit before it actually does anything. Let’s talk about those first two flags quickly.
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Let’s just spend a second or two marvelling at the outward simplicity of syntax and we’ll crack on. And now I honestly can’t remember how I survived without it. While I seemingly use it at least once a week now, it took me a couple of years to discover the rename command. Why doesn’t my rename take a perlexpr?!.Fixing extension based on actual content or MIME.Incrementing an existing number in a file.Zero-padding numbers so they sort correctly.Replacing (and adding and removing) with s/././.But there is an easy method in Ubuntu that relatively few users know about: the rename command. They get lost in Bash and find -exec loops and generally make a big mess of things before asking for help.
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I’ve seen more than a few Ask Ubuntu users struggling with how to batch rename their files. Bulk renaming files in Ubuntu the briefest of introductions to the rename command - Oli Warner Oli Warner About Contact Oli on Twitter Subscribe Bulk renaming files in Ubuntu the briefest of introductions to the rename commandįriday, 31 October 2014 bash rename ubuntu
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