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menteith
Asked: 2020-04-19 03:09:22 +0800 CST

Change duplicated extension of multiple files recursively from the command line

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My question is almost the same as those, however, its solution doesn't work my for my case. I'd like to remove duplicated extension (in my case .zip.zip) and have only one (i.e. .zip). I tried:

rename 's/.zip/.zip$/.zip/' *.zip.zip

and

find . -depth -name "*.zip.zip" -exec rename 's/\.zip\.zip$/.zip/' {} +

But in both case no file was renamed.

command-line zsh batch-rename rename

2 Answers

  1. The following did the trick.

    find . -depth -name "*.zip.zip" -exec sh -c 'mv "$1" "${1%.zip.zip}.zip"' _ {} \;

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  2. Best Answer

    Recursively renaming files using globstar and rename:

    $ shopt -s globstar; rename 's/\.zip$//' **/*.zip.zip

    Renaming files using mmv:

    $ mmv ';*.zip.zip' '#1#2.zip'
       12            ^ ^
    • ; matches files at any depth in the directory tree.
    • * Matches any char zero or more times.
    • # References to the nth wildcard char in the from pattern.
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