How do I rename files in sub directories? - windows

Question

Is there any way of batch renaming files in sub directories?
For example:
Rename *.html to *.htm in a folder which has directories and sub directories.

Answer 1

Windows command prompt: (If inside a batch file, change %x to %%x)
for /r %x in (*.html) do ren "%x" *.htm
This also works for renaming the middle of the files
for /r %x in (website*.html) do ren "%x" site*.htm

Answer 2

find . -regex ".*html$" | while read line;
do
A=`basename ${line} | sed 's/html$/htm/g'`;
B=`dirname ${line}`;
mv ${line} "${B}/${A}";
done

Answer 3

In python
import os
target_dir = "."
for path, dirs, files in os.walk(target_dir):
for file in files:
filename, ext = os.path.splitext(file)
new_file = filename + ".htm"
if ext == '.html':
old_filepath = os.path.join(path, file)
new_filepath = os.path.join(path, new_file)
os.rename(old_filepath, new_filepath)

Answer 4

If you have forfiles (it comes with Windows XP and 2003 and newer stuff I think) you can run:
forfiles /S /M *.HTM /C "cmd /c ren #file *.HTML"

Answer 5

In Bash, you could do the following:
for x in $(find . -name \*.html); do
mv $x $(echo "$x" | sed 's/\.html$/.htm/')
done

Answer 6

In bash use command rename :)
rename 's/\.htm$/.html/' *.htm
# or
find . -name '*.txt' -print0 | xargs -0 rename 's/.txt$/.xml/'
#Obs1: Above I use regex \. --> literal '.' and $ --> end of line
#Obs2: Use find -maxdepht 'value' for determine how recursive is
#Obs3: Use -print0 to avoid 'names spaces asdfa' crash!

Answer 7

I'm sure there's a more elegant way, but here's the first thing that popped in my head:
for f in $(find . -type f -name '*.html'); do
mv $f $(echo "$f" | sed 's/html$/htm/')
done

Answer 8

On Linux, you may use the 'rename' command to rename files in batch.

Answer 9

AWK on Linux. For the first directory this is your answer... Extrapolate by recursively calling awk on dir_path perhaps by writing another awk which writes this exact awk below... and so on.
ls dir_path/. | awk -F"." '{print "mv file_name/"$0" dir_path/"$1".new_extension"}' |csh

Answer 10

On Unix, you can use rnm:
rnm -rs '/\.html$/.htm/' -fo -dp -1 *
Or
rnm -ns '/n/.htm' -ss '\.html$' -fo -dp -1 *
Explanation:
-ns : name string (new name). /n/ is a name string rule that expands to the filename without the extension.
-ss : search string (regex). Searches for files with match.
-rs : replace string of the form /search_regex/replace_part/modifier
-fo : file only mode
-dp : depth of directory (-1 means unlimited).

Answer 11

there is pretty powerfull forfiles command:
forfiles /? gives u hint of what is possible with the command.
in this case it can be used like:
forfiles /S /M *.html /C "cmd /c rename #file #fname.htm"