How to rename with prefix suffix

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How do I do mv original filename new original filename without retyping the original filename   I would imagine being able to do something like mv -p new  original filename or perhaps mv original filename new   or whatever - but I can t see anything like this after looking at man mv   info mv pages   Of course  I could write a shell script to do this  but isn t there an existing command flag for it

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I know there is great answers here but I found no reference to handle filename extensions when adding suffix.

I needed to add '_en' suffix to all wav files in a folder before the file extension.

The magic is here: %.*

for filename in *.wav; do mv $filename ${filename%.*}_en.wav; done;

If you need to handle different file extensions, check this answer. A bit less intuitive.

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The easiest way to bulk rename files in directory is   ls   xargs -I fileName mv fileName fileName suffix

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I ve seen people mention a rename command  but it is not routinely available on Unix systems  as opposed to Linux systems  say  or Cygwin - on both of which  rename is an executable rather than a script    That version of rename has a fairly limited functionality   rename from to file       It replaces the from part of the file names with the to  and the example given in the man page is   rename foo foo0 foo  foo     This renames foo1 to foo01  and foo10 to foo010  etc   I use a Perl script called rename  which I originally dug out from the first edition Camel book  circa 1992  and then extended  to rename files      bin perl -w          Id  rename pl v 1 7 2008 02 16 07 53 08 jleffler Exp       Rename files using a Perl substitute or transliterate command  use strict  use Getopt  Std   my  opts   my  usage     Usage   0  -fnxV  perlexpr  filenames  n   my  force    0  my  noexc    0  my  trace    0   die  usage unless getopts  fnxV     opts    if   opts V         printf   s n   q RENAME Version  Revision  1 7     Date  2008 02 16 07 53 08          exit 0     force   1 if   opts f     noexc   1 if   opts n     trace   1 if   opts x     my  op    shift  die  usage unless defined  op   if    ARGV         ARGV    lt STDIN gt       chop  ARGV      for   ARGV        if  -e       -l                   my  was                eval  op          die    if             next if   was eq              if   force    0  amp  amp  -f                           print STDERR  rename failed   was -    exists n                     else                       print     was -- gt     n  if  trace              print STDERR  rename failed   was -    n                  unless   noexc    rename  was                            else               print STDERR     -    n             This allows you to write any Perl substitute or transliterate command to map file names  In the specific example requested  you d use   rename  s   new    original filename

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You can achieve a unix compatible multiple file rename  using wildcards  by creating a for loop   for file in    do   mv  file new   file    done

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If it s open to a modification  you could use a suffix instead of a prefix  Then you could use tab-completion to get the original filename and add the suffix   Otherwise  no this isn t something that is supported by the mv command  A simple shell script could cope though

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I know there is great answers here but I found no reference to handle filename extensions when adding suffix.

I needed to add '_en' suffix to all wav files in a folder before the file extension.

The magic is here: %.*

for filename in *.wav; do mv $filename ${filename%.*}_en.wav; done;

If you need to handle different file extensions, check this answer. A bit less intuitive.

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In  my  case  I  have  a  group of files  which needs  to be  renamed before  I can  work  with  them  Each  file has  its  own  role  in  group and  has  its  own  pattern    As  result  I  have  a  list  of  rename  commands like  this   f  ls  canctn 0-9         mv  f  CNLC  f f  ls  acustb 0-9         mv  f  CATB  f f  ls  accusgtb 0-9       mv  f  CATB  f f  ls  acus 0-9           mv  f  CAUS  f   Try  this also    f MyFileName  mv  f  pref1 pref2  f suf1 suf2    This  will produce  all combinations with  prefixes  and  suffixes   pref1 MyFileName suf1     pref2 MyFileName suf2   Another  way to solve same  problem is to create  mapping array  and  add corespondent  prefix  for  each  file type  as  shown below      bin bash unset masks typeset -A masks masks ip 0-9   ip masks iaf usg 0-9   ip usg masks ipusg 0-9   ip usg     for fileMask in    masks       do   registryEntry    masks  fileMask     fileName    fileMask     -e   fileName     amp  amp   mv   fileName    registryEntry    fileName    done

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If it s open to a modification  you could use a suffix instead of a prefix  Then you could use tab-completion to get the original filename and add the suffix   Otherwise  no this isn t something that is supported by the mv command  A simple shell script could cope though

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In Bash and zsh you can do this with Brace Expansion   This simply expands a list of items in braces   For example     echo  vanilla chocolate strawberry -ice-cream vanilla-ice-cream chocolate-ice-cream strawberry-ice-cream   So you can do your rename as follows   mv   new  original filename   as this expands to   mv original filename new original filename

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The easiest way to bulk rename files in directory is   ls   xargs -I fileName mv fileName fileName suffix

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In Bash and zsh you can do this with Brace Expansion   This simply expands a list of items in braces   For example     echo  vanilla chocolate strawberry -ice-cream vanilla-ice-cream chocolate-ice-cream strawberry-ice-cream   So you can do your rename as follows   mv   new  original filename   as this expands to   mv original filename new original filename

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Bulk rename files bash script     bin bash   USAGE  cd FILESDIRECTORY  RENAMERFILEPATH MultipleFileRenamer sh FILENAMEPREFIX INITNUMBER   USAGE EXAMPLE  cd PHOTOS   home Desktop MultipleFileRenamer sh 2016    VERSION  2016 03 05    COPYRIGHT  Hark  ly Gergo   mangoRDI  https   wwww mangordi com       check isset INITNUMBER argument  if not  set 1   INITNUMBER is the first number after renaming if   -z   2        then i 1  else     i  2  fi    counts the files to set leading zeros before number   max 1000 files count   ls -l     wc -l  if    count -lt 10       then zeros 1  else     if    count -lt 100           then zeros 2      else         zeros 3     fi fi    rename script for file in   do     mv  file  1   printf  0  zeros d  s   i       file           let i   i 1  done

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I ve seen people mention a rename command  but it is not routinely available on Unix systems  as opposed to Linux systems  say  or Cygwin - on both of which  rename is an executable rather than a script    That version of rename has a fairly limited functionality   rename from to file       It replaces the from part of the file names with the to  and the example given in the man page is   rename foo foo0 foo  foo     This renames foo1 to foo01  and foo10 to foo010  etc   I use a Perl script called rename  which I originally dug out from the first edition Camel book  circa 1992  and then extended  to rename files      bin perl -w          Id  rename pl v 1 7 2008 02 16 07 53 08 jleffler Exp       Rename files using a Perl substitute or transliterate command  use strict  use Getopt  Std   my  opts   my  usage     Usage   0  -fnxV  perlexpr  filenames  n   my  force    0  my  noexc    0  my  trace    0   die  usage unless getopts  fnxV     opts    if   opts V         printf   s n   q RENAME Version  Revision  1 7     Date  2008 02 16 07 53 08          exit 0     force   1 if   opts f     noexc   1 if   opts n     trace   1 if   opts x     my  op    shift  die  usage unless defined  op   if    ARGV         ARGV    lt STDIN gt       chop  ARGV      for   ARGV        if  -e       -l                   my  was                eval  op          die    if             next if   was eq              if   force    0  amp  amp  -f                           print STDERR  rename failed   was -    exists n                     else                       print     was -- gt     n  if  trace              print STDERR  rename failed   was -    n                  unless   noexc    rename  was                            else               print STDERR     -    n             This allows you to write any Perl substitute or transliterate command to map file names  In the specific example requested  you d use   rename  s   new    original filename

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You could use the rename 1  command   rename  s       new  1   original filename   Edit  If rename isn t available and you have to rename more than one file  shell scripting can really be short and simple for this  For example  to rename all   jpg to prefix   jpg in the current directory   for filename in   jpg  do mv   filename   prefix  filename   done

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I ve seen people mention a rename command  but it is not routinely available on Unix systems  as opposed to Linux systems  say  or Cygwin - on both of which  rename is an executable rather than a script    That version of rename has a fairly limited functionality   rename from to file       It replaces the from part of the file names with the to  and the example given in the man page is   rename foo foo0 foo  foo     This renames foo1 to foo01  and foo10 to foo010  etc   I use a Perl script called rename  which I originally dug out from the first edition Camel book  circa 1992  and then extended  to rename files      bin perl -w          Id  rename pl v 1 7 2008 02 16 07 53 08 jleffler Exp       Rename files using a Perl substitute or transliterate command  use strict  use Getopt  Std   my  opts   my  usage     Usage   0  -fnxV  perlexpr  filenames  n   my  force    0  my  noexc    0  my  trace    0   die  usage unless getopts  fnxV     opts    if   opts V         printf   s n   q RENAME Version  Revision  1 7     Date  2008 02 16 07 53 08          exit 0     force   1 if   opts f     noexc   1 if   opts n     trace   1 if   opts x     my  op    shift  die  usage unless defined  op   if    ARGV         ARGV    lt STDIN gt       chop  ARGV      for   ARGV        if  -e       -l                   my  was                eval  op          die    if             next if   was eq              if   force    0  amp  amp  -f                           print STDERR  rename failed   was -    exists n                     else                       print     was -- gt     n  if  trace              print STDERR  rename failed   was -    n                  unless   noexc    rename  was                            else               print STDERR     -    n             This allows you to write any Perl substitute or transliterate command to map file names  In the specific example requested  you d use   rename  s   new    original filename

User · Answer

If it s open to a modification  you could use a suffix instead of a prefix  Then you could use tab-completion to get the original filename and add the suffix   Otherwise  no this isn t something that is supported by the mv command  A simple shell script could cope though

User · Answer

Bulk rename files bash script     bin bash   USAGE  cd FILESDIRECTORY  RENAMERFILEPATH MultipleFileRenamer sh FILENAMEPREFIX INITNUMBER   USAGE EXAMPLE  cd PHOTOS   home Desktop MultipleFileRenamer sh 2016    VERSION  2016 03 05    COPYRIGHT  Hark  ly Gergo   mangoRDI  https   wwww mangordi com       check isset INITNUMBER argument  if not  set 1   INITNUMBER is the first number after renaming if   -z   2        then i 1  else     i  2  fi    counts the files to set leading zeros before number   max 1000 files count   ls -l     wc -l  if    count -lt 10       then zeros 1  else     if    count -lt 100           then zeros 2      else         zeros 3     fi fi    rename script for file in   do     mv  file  1   printf  0  zeros d  s   i       file           let i   i 1  done

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In Bash and zsh you can do this with Brace Expansion   This simply expands a list of items in braces   For example     echo  vanilla chocolate strawberry -ice-cream vanilla-ice-cream chocolate-ice-cream strawberry-ice-cream   So you can do your rename as follows   mv   new  original filename   as this expands to   mv original filename new original filename

User · Answer

I ve seen people mention a rename command  but it is not routinely available on Unix systems  as opposed to Linux systems  say  or Cygwin - on both of which  rename is an executable rather than a script    That version of rename has a fairly limited functionality   rename from to file       It replaces the from part of the file names with the to  and the example given in the man page is   rename foo foo0 foo  foo     This renames foo1 to foo01  and foo10 to foo010  etc   I use a Perl script called rename  which I originally dug out from the first edition Camel book  circa 1992  and then extended  to rename files      bin perl -w          Id  rename pl v 1 7 2008 02 16 07 53 08 jleffler Exp       Rename files using a Perl substitute or transliterate command  use strict  use Getopt  Std   my  opts   my  usage     Usage   0  -fnxV  perlexpr  filenames  n   my  force    0  my  noexc    0  my  trace    0   die  usage unless getopts  fnxV     opts    if   opts V         printf   s n   q RENAME Version  Revision  1 7     Date  2008 02 16 07 53 08          exit 0     force   1 if   opts f     noexc   1 if   opts n     trace   1 if   opts x     my  op    shift  die  usage unless defined  op   if    ARGV         ARGV    lt STDIN gt       chop  ARGV      for   ARGV        if  -e       -l                   my  was                eval  op          die    if             next if   was eq              if   force    0  amp  amp  -f                           print STDERR  rename failed   was -    exists n                     else                       print     was -- gt     n  if  trace              print STDERR  rename failed   was -    n                  unless   noexc    rename  was                            else               print STDERR     -    n             This allows you to write any Perl substitute or transliterate command to map file names  In the specific example requested  you d use   rename  s   new    original filename

User · Answer

You can achieve a unix compatible multiple file rename  using wildcards  by creating a for loop   for file in    do   mv  file new   file    done

User · Answer

You could use the rename 1  command   rename  s       new  1   original filename   Edit  If rename isn t available and you have to rename more than one file  shell scripting can really be short and simple for this  For example  to rename all   jpg to prefix   jpg in the current directory   for filename in   jpg  do mv   filename   prefix  filename   done

User · Answer

You could use the rename 1  command   rename  s       new  1   original filename   Edit  If rename isn t available and you have to rename more than one file  shell scripting can really be short and simple for this  For example  to rename all   jpg to prefix   jpg in the current directory   for filename in   jpg  do mv   filename   prefix  filename   done

User · Answer

If it s open to a modification  you could use a suffix instead of a prefix  Then you could use tab-completion to get the original filename and add the suffix   Otherwise  no this isn t something that is supported by the mv command  A simple shell script could cope though

User · Answer

In Bash and zsh you can do this with Brace Expansion   This simply expands a list of items in braces   For example     echo  vanilla chocolate strawberry -ice-cream vanilla-ice-cream chocolate-ice-cream strawberry-ice-cream   So you can do your rename as follows   mv   new  original filename   as this expands to   mv original filename new original filename

User · Answer

In  my  case  I  have  a  group of files  which needs  to be  renamed before  I can  work  with  them  Each  file has  its  own  role  in  group and  has  its  own  pattern    As  result  I  have  a  list  of  rename  commands like  this   f  ls  canctn 0-9         mv  f  CNLC  f f  ls  acustb 0-9         mv  f  CATB  f f  ls  accusgtb 0-9       mv  f  CATB  f f  ls  acus 0-9           mv  f  CAUS  f   Try  this also    f MyFileName  mv  f  pref1 pref2  f suf1 suf2    This  will produce  all combinations with  prefixes  and  suffixes   pref1 MyFileName suf1     pref2 MyFileName suf2   Another  way to solve same  problem is to create  mapping array  and  add corespondent  prefix  for  each  file type  as  shown below      bin bash unset masks typeset -A masks masks ip 0-9   ip masks iaf usg 0-9   ip usg masks ipusg 0-9   ip usg     for fileMask in    masks       do   registryEntry    masks  fileMask     fileName    fileMask     -e   fileName     amp  amp   mv   fileName    registryEntry    fileName    done

User · Answer

You could use the rename 1  command   rename  s       new  1   original filename   Edit  If rename isn t available and you have to rename more than one file  shell scripting can really be short and simple for this  For example  to rename all   jpg to prefix   jpg in the current directory   for filename in   jpg  do mv   filename   prefix  filename   done

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