rename a range of files using one-line command

gavin2u

Hi, all

I have a range of files in a certain dir, like this,

$ touch file[123456]

$ ls

file1 file2 file3 file4 file5 file6

now, how could rename them, and add a prefix to each file? for example, add a 'pre-' prefix, as following,

pre-file1

pre-file2

pre-file3

...

pre-file6

Thanks in advance. :cheer:

Regards,

gavin

amnesia

for files in filename* ; do new="prefix_$files" ; echo "$files $new" ; done

you don't even need the new="prefix_files";

you can
for files in filename* ; do mv $files pre_$files ; done

and make it even shorter

root@msu:~/haha# for files in haha* ; do new="prefix_$files" ; echo "$files $new" ; done
haha1 prefix_haha1
haha2 prefix_haha2
haha3 prefix_haha3
haha4 prefix_haha4
haha5 prefix_haha5
haha6 prefix_haha6
haha7 prefix_haha7

gavin2u

thanks for ur reply, :laugh: i now find another two solutions as follows,

solution1:

ls  | xargs -I{} mv {} pre_{}

solution2:

rename '' pre- *

Mtalamu

i would like to help you but not here this is my mail mtalamu8@hotmail.com

skanaksa

rename file pre-file *