topic Re: How to rename 10000 files in Operating System - HP-UX

How to rename 10000 files

praveen.. — Tue, 27 Feb 2007 14:28:55 GMT

Hi,
I have 10000 file named *.htm in one directory.
and I need to rename these files from *.htm to *.html

How can i remane all these files?

Please suggest

Re: How to rename 10000 files

Patrick Wallek — Tue, 27 Feb 2007 14:30:29 GMT

Something like this from the # should work:

cd /dir
for FILE in *.htm
do
mv ${FILE} ${FILE}l
done

Re: How to rename 10000 files

Xavier Gutierrez_2 — Tue, 27 Feb 2007 14:35:27 GMT

Hi,

My way:

ls *.htm | awk -F "." '{print $1}' | while read vFile
do
mv $vFile.htm $vFile.html
done

Cheers,

XG.-

Re: How to rename 10000 files

A. Clay Stephenson — Tue, 27 Feb 2007 14:35:29 GMT

Something like this should get you started:

ls *.htm | while read X
do
NEWNAME=${X}l
if [[ ! -f ${NEWNAME} ]]
then
mv ${X} ${NEWNAME}
else
echo "${NEWNAME} already exists." >&2
fi
done

Because you have some many *.htm files in one directory, you may need to change the ls *.htm to something like ls [a-g]*.htm and do only a portion of themn at a time.

Re: How to rename 10000 files

James R. Ferguson — Tue, 27 Feb 2007 14:42:06 GMT

Hi Praveen:

Yet another way:

# ls *.htm | xargs -i mv {} {}l

Regards!

...JRF...

Re: How to rename 10000 files

praveen.. — Tue, 27 Feb 2007 15:18:12 GMT

Thanks, All are working

Thanks