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ches on 09/07/07

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Leave off the final pipe to /bin/sh to do a 'dry run'

ls foo*.jpg | awk '{print("mv "$1" "$1)}' | sed 's/foo/bar/2' | /bin/sh

Posted By: IanLewis on January 29, 2009

You can also do other commands to select files to rename. Like

find . -name "foo*.jpg" | awk '{print("mv "$1" "$1)}' | sed 's/foo/bar/2' | /bin/sh

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