Rename Files and Directories Add Prefix

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I would like to add prefix on all folders and directories   Example   I have  Hi jpg 1 txt folder  this file is here png another folder ok    I would like to add prefix  PRE    PRE Hi jpg PRE 1 txt PRE folder  PRE this file is here png PRE another folder ok    Regards

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Here is a simple script that you can use  I like using the non-standard module File  chdir to handle managing cd operations  so to use this script as-is you will need to install it  sudo cpan File  chdir       usr bin perl  use strict  use warnings   use File  Copy  use File  chdir    allows cd-ing by use of  CWD  much easier but needs CPAN module  die  Usage   0 dir prefix  unless   ARGV  gt   2   my   dir   pre     ARGV   opendir my  dir handle   dir  or die  Cannot open directory  dir   my  files   readdir  dir handle   close  dir handle     CWD    dir    cd to the directory  needs File  chdir  foreach my  file   files      next if   file                avoid folders   and      next if   0      file      avoid moving this script if it is in the directory    move  file   pre    file  or warn  Cannot rename file  file

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On my system  I don t have the rename command  Here is a simple one liner  It finds all the HTML files recursively and adds prefix  in front of their names   for f in   find   -name    html    do mv   f     dirname   f   prefix   basename   f     done

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with Perl   perl -e  rename      PRE     for  lt   gt

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This will prefix your files in their directory   The   f     is the path till the last slash   -  the directory  The   f      is the text without anything before last slash   -  filename without the path  So that s how it goes   for f in   find  directory  -type f   do    mv -v  f   f       date   Y m d  Prefix   f      done

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This could be done running a simple find command   find   -maxdepth 0 -exec mv    PRE         The above command will prefix all files and folders in the current directory with PRE

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Use the rename script this way     rename  s   PRE        There are no problems with metacharacters or whitespace in filenames

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For adding prefix or suffix for files directories   you could use the simple and powerful way by xargs   ls   xargs -I    mv    PRE     ls   xargs -I    mv       SUF   It is using the paramerter-replacing option of xargs  -I  And you can get more detail from the man page

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If you have Ruby 1 9    ruby -e  Dir      each  x  File rename x  PRE   x

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To add a prefix to all files and folders in the current directory using util-linux s rename  as opposed to prename  the perl variant from Debian and certain other systems   you can do   rename     lt prefix gt      This finds the first occurrence of the empty string  which is found immediately  and then replaces that occurrence with your prefix  then glues on the rest of the file name to the end of that  Done   For suffixes  you need to use the perl version or use find

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Thanks to Peter van der Heijden  here s one that ll work for filenames with spaces in them   for f in     do mv --   f   PRE  f    done     --  is needed to succeed with files that begin with dashes  whose names would otherwise be interpreted as switches for the mv command

[linux] Rename Files and Directories (Add Prefix)

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