devynspencer/rename_all.sh

Created September 20, 2015 08:44

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Example highlighting the use of a for loop to rename all file beginning with 720 and not ending with .mp4

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rename_all.sh

	for i in $(ls 720^*.mp4); do
	mv $i{,.mp4}
	done

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devynspencer commented Sep 20, 2015

An alternative using find:

find . -iname "*720*" -depth 1 -exec mv {}{,.mp4} \;

Note: this doesn't exclude files ending with '.mp4' as above

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