Linux Command-Line – Recursively Rename Files and Change Extensions

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How do I rename all files in a directory, recursively, changing one file extension to another, for thousands of files in thousands of subfolders? I see a lot of commands that do almost what I want, but not quite.

find . -name "*.andnav" -exec rename .andnav .tile {} \;
syntax error at (eval 1) line 1, near "."

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rename -nv 's/\.andnav$/\.tile/i' *.andnav
0.png.andnav renamed as 0.png.tile

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Figured it out

find . -name "*.andnav" -exec rename -v 's/\.andnav$/\.tile/i' {} \;
./0/0.png.andnav renamed as ./0/0.png.tile
./0/1.png.andnav renamed as ./0/1.png.tile
./1/0.png.andnav renamed as ./1/0.png.tile
./1/1.png.andnav renamed as ./1/1.png.tile

of course remove the -v when actually doing it, or it will waste time displaying all the files

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As from another answer I learned, that I have to use

rename "s/$dir\/[0-9]{8}/$dir\/$dir/" $dir/*

Just in case anyone has the same problem...

Windows – Recursively renaming .foo files based on name of accompanying .bar file in multiple folders in Windows 7

You can do this with PowerShell, if you're comfortable with that.

function Rename-HashFiles ([string]$path)
{
    [System.IO.FileInfo[]]$hashFiles = Get-ChildItem -Path $path -Force -Include "*.hash" -Recurse
    foreach($hashFile in $hashFiles)
    {
        [string]$newFileName = [string]::Empty;
        Get-ChildItem -Path ($hashFile.DirectoryName) -Filter "*.m3u" | % { $newFileName = [System.IO.Path]::GetFileNameWithoutExtension($_.Name) }    
        $newFileName += ([System.IO.Path]::GetExtension($hashFile.Name))
        Rename-Item -Path $hashFile.FullName -NewName $newFileName
    }

}

Rename-HashFiles "C:\My_Music_Folder"

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