Sometimes the unix shell script is still the best tool for the job.
Today I needed to rename a bunch of java properties files from *.property to *.json. Ok, I needed to do more then just rename them, but it makes the example easier to assume that is all that I needed done 🙂
I wrote the following script in rename.sh file.
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#!/bin/bash for file in *.properties; do mv "$file" "${file%properties}json" done |
Then I ran chmod +x rename.sh followed by ./rename.sh to run the file. Done.
It’s a small example, but it demonstrates well just how powerful bash scripts can be.
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What about renaming “hidden” files? Do you know how to get around it? I tried your method above but did’t work. Any help would be greatly appreciated. Thanks.