How do I rename files in sub directories?

Question

Is there any way of batch renaming files in sub directories?

For example:

Rename *.html to *.htm in a folder which has directories

Answer 1

For Windows, I've made a convenient litte VBScript solution with regex-based renaming and Drag&Drop support. Give it a try if you like - put it in a vbs file and drop your folder on it in Explorer.

Answer 2

find . -regex ".*html$" | while read line;
 do 
    A=`basename ${line} | sed 's/html$/htm/g'`;
    B=`dirname ${line}`;
    mv ${line} "${B}/${A}";
 done

Answer 3

In Bash, you could do the following:

for x in $(find . -name \*.html); do
  mv $x $(echo "$x" | sed 's/\.html$/.htm/')
done

Answer 4

On Windows, you can find out opensource simple C# bulk file renamer application in https://filerenamer.codeplex.com works with a simple excel file. Give an excel file with two columns source and destination to this application and it's done.

Answer 5

If you have forfiles (it comes with Windows XP and 2003 and newer stuff I think) you can run:

forfiles /S /M *.HTM /C "cmd /c ren @file *.HTML"

Answer 6

On Linux, you may use the 'rename' command to rename files in batch.