How to rename mulitple files in linux

Posted Sat, 25/06/2011 - 17:05 by martin

For example all these audio files below belong to CD 1. At the moment the file name does not tell you that. I am going to rename so that when you look at the file name it will tell you what disc it belongs to.

01 Track 1.wma
02 Track 2.wma
03 Track 3.wma 
04 Track 4.wma

Here is a bash script to do this. You must be in the directory that contains the files you want to rename.

ls * | while read data;
do
new_name=`echo $file_name | sed 's/^[0-9][0-9]/1/'` ;
mv "$file_name" "$new_name";
done

This script will rename them to this.

1 Track 1.wma
1 Track 2.wma
1 Track 3.wma 
1 Track 4.wma