Hi,

In a given directory, how do I change all file names such that I
replace the string "show" with the string "event" in the file title?

Thanks, - Dave

On Wed, 26 Mar 2008 09:50:06 -0700 (PDT), laredotornado
<laredotornado@zipmail.com> wrote:

>Hi,
>
>In a given directory, how do I change all file names such that I
>replace the string "show" with the string "event" in the file title?
>
>Thanks, - Dave

Assuming "file title" means the filename, how about

rename show event *show* ?


Scott McMillan

2008-03-26, 09:50(-07), laredotornado:
[...]
> In a given directory, how do I change all file names such that I
> replace the string "show" with the string "event" in the file title?
[...]

If by "file title" you mean file name:

With zsh

autoload -U zmv # usually in ~/.zshrc
zmv '(*)show(*)' '${1}event${2}'

Or:

zmv '*' '$f:s/show/event'

--
Stéphane

laredotornado wrote:

> Hi,
>
> In a given directory, how do I change all file names such that I
> replace the string "show" with the string "event" in the file title?

If you have bash, you could do (case-sensitive):

for name in *show*; do
# replaces first occurrence of "show"
newname="${name/show/event}"
# to replace all occurrences, uncomment next line
#newname="${name//show/event}"
mv -- "$name" "$newname"
done

This should work even if filenames have strange characters in them (or at
least seems to work in my tests; I've tried with filenames containing
quotes, newlines, * and ?).

--
All the commands are tested with bash and GNU tools, so they may use
nonstandard features. I try to mention when something is nonstandard (if
I'm aware of that), but I may miss something. Corrections are welcome.

pk wrote:

> newname="${name/show/event}"

It seems double quotes are not actually needed here:

newname=${name/show/event}

--
All the commands are tested with bash and GNU tools, so they may use
nonstandard features. I try to mention when something is nonstandard (if
I'm aware of that), but I may miss something. Corrections are welcome.