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andreszs
Asked: 2014-02-10 07:37:12 +0800 CST

Find and rename files removing suffix

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I'm using the following command to move all files (non-recursively) ended in _128.jpg into the 128x160 subdir. This works great.

find . -iname '*_128.jpg' | xargs -I '{}' mv {} 128x160

But I also need to remove the _128 suffix from each file. Also, I must keep my current xargs method, making an exec for each would make the process extremely longer.

Thanks in advance for your cooperation!

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  1. Best Answer

    Something like this should do the trick :

    find . -iname '*_128.jpg' | xargs -I % sh -c 'newname=$(echo % | sed "s/_128//"); mv % 128x160/$newname'

    Here i have used a multiple commands approach using sh -c 'command1; command2' and sed to clear _128 in the filename.

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