recursively add file extension to all files

Question

I have a few directories and sub-directories containing files with no file extension. I want to add .jpg to all the files contained within these directories. I\

Answer 1

rename

not sure that it can rename files without extensions (I'm on windows 7 right now)

Answer 2

like this,

for f in $(find . -type f); do mv $f ${f}.jpg; done

I am not expecting you have space separated file names,
If you do, the names will need to be processed a bit.

If you want to execute the command from some other directory,
you can replace the find . with find /target/directory.

Answer 3

For renaming all files with no extension in Windows basic you can do ren * *.jpg Since the file as no extension, just use the *, or if you want to change png to jpg use ren *.png *.jpg

Answer 4

This is a little late, but I thought I would add that a better solution (although maybe less readable) than the ones so far might be:

find /path -type f -not -name "*.*" -print0 | xargs -0 rename 's/(.)$/$1.jpg/'

Using the find | xargs pattern generally results in more efficient execution, as you don't have to fork a new process for each file.

Note that this requires the version of rename found in Debian-flavored distros (aka prename), rather than the traditional rename. It's just a tiny perl script, though, so it would be easy enough to use the command above on any system.

Answer 5

Alternative command without an explicit loop (man find):

find . -type f -exec mv '{}' '{}'.jpg \;

Explanation: this recursively finds all files (-type f) starting from the current directory (.) and applies the move command (mv) to each of them. Note also the quotes around {}, so that filenames with spaces (and even newlines...) are properly handled.

Answer 6

this will find files without extension and add your .jpg

find /path -type f -not -name "*.*" -exec mv "{}" "{}".jpg \;