topic Re: "find" to change file name? in Operating System - Linux

"find" to change file name?

Coolmar — Tue, 05 Jun 2007 12:50:21 GMT

I have some tif files throughout many subdirectories that are .TIF and I need to rename them .tif - I figured I would use find but can't quite get the syntax right. Here is what I have:

find . -type f -name "*.TIF"|xargs -i mv {} {}.tif

However, that just names it to file.TIF.tif

So, I am close but no cigar...

Re: "find" to change file name?

Sandman! — Tue, 05 Jun 2007 12:58:28 GMT

Try awk instead...

# ls -1 *.TIF | awk -F".TIF$" '{system("mv "$0" "$1".tif")}'

~cheers

Re: "find" to change file name?

Coolmar — Tue, 05 Jun 2007 13:00:39 GMT

I am using find because these files are within subdirectories of subdirectories ... sometimes 10 deep. So I figured I needed find for that.

Re: "find" to change file name?

Sandman! — Tue, 05 Jun 2007 13:04:02 GMT

In that case use the one below:

# find . -type f -name "*.TIF" | xargs -n1 awk -F".TIF$" '{system("mv "$0" "$1".tif")}'

Re: "find" to change file name?

Sandman! — Tue, 05 Jun 2007 13:14:41 GMT

Ooops...without the xargs leading the pipelined command i.e.

# find . -type f -name "*.TIF" | awk -F".TIF$" '{system("mv "$0" "$1".tif")}'

Re: "find" to change file name?

Coolmar — Tue, 05 Jun 2007 13:22:45 GMT

Thanks Sandman

Re: "find" to change file name?

Dennis Handly — Tue, 05 Jun 2007 22:03:30 GMT

You don't really need to use awk, you can directly use the shell (or sed):

find . -type f -name "*.TIF" -exec rename_tif {} +

rename_tif:
#!/usr/bin/ksh
# changes *.TIF to *.tif
# Doesn't handle embedded blanks

for file in $*; do
mv $file ${file#.TIF}.tif
done