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How to rename all the files in a folder having specific
extension?
Example: I have some files with extension (.txt) in a folder
name 'Test'. I have to rename all the .txt files in a test
and its subdirectories to .my extension.

Question Posted / ramit

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How to rename all the files in a folder having specific extension? Example: I have some files with..

Answer / ramit

Hi Nagesh,

Thanks for the reply but I dont think this will work
as $file= myFile.txt
and mv $file $file.my will rename to myFile.txt.my

I found the solution by extracting basedirectory and
filename then renaming it to req. extension.

thanks

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How to rename all the files in a folder having specific extension? Example: I have some files with..

Answer / vipin

The script given below may work properly.
find command is used to search in all the subdirectories.
basename will extract only filename with .txt extension from
absolute path of file.
cut command will print opnly filename without extension.
mv command is uset to rename.

#!/bin/bash
for i in $(find -name \*.txt)
do
mv $i $(echo `basename $i` | cut -d . -f 1).my
done

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How to rename all the files in a folder having specific extension? Example: I have some files with..

Answer / bindu

its very simple
try this out
rename .txt .my *.txt
all the files with .txt extension will be converted into .my

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How to rename all the files in a folder having specific extension? Example: I have some files with..

Answer / nagesh

for file in *.txt
do
mv $file $file.my
done

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How to rename all the files in a folder having specific extension? Example: I have some files with..

Answer / jks

It can be done using the xargs command of Unix ...
cd to the dir containing the *.txt files

$ls *.txt | xargs -i mv \{\} \{\}.my

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