how can I rename multiple files by inserting a character?
I have many files of the form
rename
How to remove URI encoding from file names?
I realise this might be quite a simple question, but I’m still quite new to the command line and only have a grasp of basic commands.
Renaming multiple files with rename
I need to rename files in batch–the other questions I browsed don’t exactly address my problem. The names of my files are generated non-deterministically, so I can’t predict what they will be named. I do know that they will start with NORMAL and end with -lib*. I’d like to replace everything in between with some string X. For example,
Is there a –parents option for mv like for cp?
cp has a useful feature --parents that allows a file’s directory structure to be copied to another directory:
Bulk rename, change prefix
How can I bulk replace the prefix for many files?
Using Perl rename to rename files and directories
I’m using the Perl rename command line tool to search recursively through a directory to rename any directories as well as files it finds. The issue I’m running into is the rename command will rename a sub-directory of a file then attempt to rename the parent directory of the same file. This will fail because the sub-directory has been renamed resulting in a “No such file or directory”
Move files to specific folders based on name
I have this file/folder scheme:
bulk rename (or correctly display) files with special characters
I have a bunch of directories and subdirectories that contain files with special characters, like this file:
Preserve directory structure when moving files using find
I have created the following script that move old days files as defined from source directory to destination directory. It is working perfectly.
“mv” file with garbled name by inode number?
I have several files with encoding issues in their file names (German umlauts, burned on CD with Windows, read by Windows and synced to Linux with Seafile. Something, somewhere went wrong…).
Bash and zsh only show “?” instead of umlauts, stat shows something like