It’s not completely clear to me, but what is the difference between mv and rename (from util-linux-ng 2.17.2 as /usr/bin/rename)? Are there advantages of one over the other beyond rename accepting regular expressions and mv doesn’t? I believe rename can also handle multiple file renames at once, whereas mv does not do this.
I tried following shell script which should replace spaces from all xml filenames
What would be a good way to move a file type from a directory and all of its sub-directories?
I want to find some files and then move them.
I have a file that contains file names. For example:
I just renamed a log file to “foo.log.old”, and assumed that the application will start writing a new logfile at “foo.log”. I was surprised to discover that it tracked the logfile to its new name, and kept appending lines to “foo.log.old”.
Anytime I want to move thousands of files to a new folder, I always encounter the same problem. > mkdir my_folder > mv * my_folder mv: cannot move 'my_folder to a subdirectory of itself 'my_folder' While I think that the error above is harmless (is it?) I am wondering if there is a way of … Read more
I often want to do some variant of this idiom:
Directory “$d” contains a few thousand e-mail files with the .txt extension. To open them in my e-mail client, I need to rename them to .eml
I’m trying to currently rename a large set of files and have been using quite kludgy methods to do so, such as: