Script to change all filenames in a directory recursively

[ukbhan]

HI ,

Due to unsuccessful execution of a script all filenames under a directory have been changed .

Say "Sample" is the directory.The original file names under this are

sample1.txt
sample2.txt
sample3.txt

Now these have been changed to

sample1.txt_new
sample2.txt_new
sample3.txt_new

so i want to rename them to original names.I require a small script which will remove "_new" in all the files present recursively under a directory.

Thanks in advance

[birdman]

If I have a directory like so:

bash-3.2$ ls -R
.:
1.other  1.txt_new  2.txt_new  3.txt_new  new  test.sh

./new:
2.other  sample1.txt_new  sample2.txt_new  sample3.txt_new

Inside test.sh is:

#!/bin/sh

for a in `find -name \*.txt_new`
do
        newname=`echo $a | sed "s/txt_new/txt/g"`
        mv $a $newname
done

When I run test.sh the following is outputted:

bash-3.2$ ls -R
.:
1.other  1.txt  2.txt  3.txt  new  test.sh

./new:
2.other  sample1.txt  sample2.txt  sample3.txt

It won't cover all your bases (i.e. if txt_new forms part of your filename as well) but it should probably work

[yancek]

Tried the following rename command with some files I created and it worked:

rename txt_new txt"" sample*

I expect this will affect any files beginning with "sample".