Post #3992796

Two ways: Say you want to rename the files Sevilla_big{number}.jpg to Sevilla_small{number}.jpg: in bash, using the extglob option: shopt -s extglob for f in pics/**/Sevilla_big*.jpg do mv $f ${f/big/small} done Using find: find . -name ‘Sevilla.*big.jpg’ > t now, you edit the file with Emacs or vim so that you duplicate the file names, modify them as you want, and copy them using the copy-rectangle command right to the collumn with the original names. Delete any names of files you don’t want to change. save the result to t. Then, in bash: <t while read a b; do mv $a $b; done (You could also insert the mv command as a furst collumn in t, save t and do: source t Bonus option: Use the mmv command