RE: [cobalt-users] Rename Mult Files

["mjr" <mjr@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

Thanks for your help...I tried it however I must be doing something
wrong...I get an error...
cp: missing destination folder
or
mv: missing file argument

The SAFE dir is there. 
Do I type it in exactly how you wrote it below or should I be making
changes?


>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