MacOS – How to add “.mp4” to the end of multiple files in a folder

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I just received a bunch of videos (for editing) and something weird happened. I was told the files are .mp4, but when I received them they did not have a filetype assigned to them.

Example

I can add ".mp4" to the file name, which fixes the issue and allows my applications to recognize the files. Problem is, there are a lot of files.

Is there any way to easily add a ".mp4" to the end of all of the files at once? I'm willing to download an app for this if needed (Mac OS X 10.8.5)

Thank you!

Best Answer

If you're comfortable with the command line you can try this in the terminal.app:

for i in *; do mv "$i" "$i.mp4"; done;

Navigate to the directory with all of your files and run the above command.

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