RENAME FILES COMMAND LINE UPDATE

I would be really thankful if you let me know by sharing it on Twitter. Substitute PREFIX to whatever you want to put in front of the filename and substitute FILES for the files you want to rename (see Example 6 below for some examples) If you run. The number of slashes maps to yyyy-mm-dddd in the file name.Īs an example this will rename a file in posts/ yyyy/ yyyy-mm-dddd-slug/ yyyy-mm-dddd-slug.mdx to posts/ yyyy/ yyyy-mm-dddd-slug/ slug.md. The / drops 1 character from the filename.

This is not exactly what we wanted, so let's use another REN command. ~nxA: Expands the value stored in parameter A to a filename and extensionĪs an example this will rename a file in posts/ yyyy/ yyyy-mm-dddd-slug/index.mdx to posts/ yyyy/ yyyy-mm-dddd-slug/ yyyy-mm-dddd-slug.mdx.Line 3: renames the MDX file to the parent directory name.Line 2: Loop through the parent directory for the MDX file.Line 1: Loops through all the MDX files recursively and set the value to a parameter.

RENAME FILES COMMAND LINE UPDATE

You can start using the REN (rename) command to update the filename to the parent directory name. Now, I could do it one by one or find a utility but using a single command is more elegant. I wanted to updated this to posts/ yyyy/ yyyy-mm-dddd-slug/slug.md. The mv command can be used as part of a bash loop or with the find command to rename multiple files at once. Example 7z rn a.7z old.txt new.txt 2.txt folder2new.txt renames old.txt to new.txt and 2.txt to folder2new.txt.

As part of the migration from Gatsby to Statiq, I had to rename all the files with the extension mdx to md.įor the posts, the mdx file lived in a directory structure similar to posts/ yyyy/ yyyy-mm-dddd-slug/index.mdx. Syntax rn .

Rename files command line