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find and rename files

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diwin

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I need to find and rename all .JPG files to .jpg in a folder with subfolders. How would I go about this?

Daniel Dillon
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get rename.

Code:
find -name "*.JPG" -exec rename 's/.JPG/.jpg/' {} +

rename takes regular expressions. I guess more recent versions than mine already contain an -R(ecursive) switch, so you can omit the find.

maybe it is then:
Code:
 rename -R 's/.JPG/.jpg/' "*.JPG"
but you have to have a look at the manual. My version belongs to perl v5.10.0

don't visit my homepage:
 
Hi

stefanwagner said:
My version belongs to perl v5.10.0
Depends on distribution. [tt]rename[/tt] with that syntax I usually met on Debian and its descendants. On other distributions a different [tt]rename[/tt] is used, part of util-linux or util-linux-ng package.
Code:
find -name "*.JPG" -exec rename '.JPG' '.jpg' {} +

Feherke.
 
That's something I didn't know - never knew there was a rename in Linux. I've always used mv. Must have crept in some time after SRV3.
 
Simply

Code:
rename 's/.JPG/.jpg/' *.JPG

works from the target folder in Ubuntu
 
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