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Find all .docx files, add sufix with bash

Answer 1

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This will do the trick and descend into the subdirectories.

find ./ -name "*.docx" -print | while read i; do mv "$i" `echo "$i" | sed -e 's/\.docx/_stringhere\.docx/'`; done

The sed -e portion will perform a regex substitution for .docx.

Buggabill 2010-08-12 15:02:29

for is not an option, since it doesn't check recursive. My files will be in sub folders. Will check what sed -e ... does tho! Thank you for your replay.

krizajB 2010-08-12 15:08:06

Edited to accommodate what you are looking for.

Buggabill 2010-08-12 15:25:11

It might be a litter better if you anchor the extension to the end of the string: `'s/\.docx$/_stringhere\.docx/'`. Or you can use this variation on **ghostdog74's** [answer](http://stackoverflow.com/questions/3468949/find-all-docx-files-add-sufix-with-bash/3469819#3469819): `mv "$i" "${i/%.docx/${string}.docx}"`

Dennis Williamson 2010-08-12 17:57:05

Answer 2

A:

bash 4

shopt -s globstar
for file in **/*.docx
do
  echo mv "$file" "${file%.docx}${string}.docx"
done

ghostdog74 2010-08-12 16:22:29

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