Unix questions - rename file on Unix?

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rename file on Unix?

gogo

2004-04-11, 3:30 pm

I'd like to rename files with pattern *_new.* to files *_old.* and I
have diffuculties. The task is to rename these files in the whole
tree, not in one folder only.
I try someting like:
find ../folder *_new.* | do mv "{}" $(echo "{}"|sed s/_new/_old/g) ";"
but it does not work for me.

Any help will be appreciated.
Thansk
StAN

William Park

2004-04-11, 5:36 pm

gogo <stanlitz@hotmail.com> wrote:
> I'd like to rename files with pattern *_new.* to files *_old.* and I
> have diffuculties. The task is to rename these files in the whole
> tree, not in one folder only.
> I try someting like:
> find ../folder *_new.* | do mv "{}" $(echo "{}"|sed s/_new/_old/g) ";"
> but it does not work for me.

Try something like
find . -type f -name '*_new.*' | while read i; do
mv $i ${i/_new/_old}
done

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