I want to be able to rename all .jpg files in a directory to .jp1 using xterm.

I tried the rename command, but it doesn't seem to exist.

I tried the xargs commands here, but xterm dislikes the -i switch:
http://puschitz.com/pblog/?p=31

Any ideas?

# change .htm files to .html
for file in *.htm ; do mv $file `echo $file | sed 's/\(.*\.\)htm/\1html/'` ; done

From :
http://lab.artlung.com/unix-batch-file-rename/

Ouch.. calling sed for each file, and not space filename safe

try this.. to rename all files in the current directory and below (including sub-directories).

find . -type f -name "*.jpg" | while IFS="" read file ; do mv "$file" "${file%.jpg}.jp1" ; done


If you want to rename only the files in the current directory, and not any files in sub-directories below:

for file in *.jpg ; do mv "$file" "${file%.jpg}.jp1" ; done


${file%.jpg} => strip ".jpg" from the end of $file
${file%.jpg}.jp1 => Strip .jpg1 from end of $file, then append .jp1

file=fish.jpg
fish.jpg => fish.jp1

neat

Thank you both.

cpitchford, I used your first example, and it worked great!

Thanks again.