Re: [cobalt-users] Rename Mult Files

[Greg Hewitt-Long <cobaltusers@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

At 03:19 PM 2/16/2004, you wrote:
> Hi,
>
> Hope all is well with everyone...
> How do you rename mult files in the same directory?
> I have a dir with about 400 filename.jpg in it...most of them have incorrect
> file names such as filename.jpg.jpg
> I try mv filename.jpg.jpg to filename.jpg and it works fine...
> I try mv *.jpg.jpg to *.jpg
> But it says I need to use a directory...Is there a way that I can change
> mult file in the same directory?


for FILE in `ls -1 *.jpg.jpg`
do
  NEWFILE="`echo $FILE | sed 's/.jpg.jpg/.jpg/'`"
  mv $FILE $NEWFILE
done

Watch your quotes!

to be safer:

mkdir SAFE
for FILE in `ls -1 *.jpg.jpg`
do
  NEWFILE="`echo $FILE | sed 's/.jpg.jpg/.jpg/'`"
  cp $FILE SAFE/
  mv $FILE $NEWFILE
done




> Thanks in advance
>
> Regards,
> Mitch
> MissWebhost.com
>
>
>
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