#Rename files command line update

Write permission is required on all directories and files being modified. The original filename or directory name is no longer accessible. 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. H ow do I rename a file in UNIX using command line options This quick UNIX tutorial explains mv command to rename file, which is a Unix command that renames one or more files or directories.

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. You can, of course, change the editor by changing the value of. Now, I could do it one by one or find a utility but using a single command is more elegant. As the name says, Vimv is a command line utility to bulk rename files using Vim editor. I wanted to updated this to posts/ yyyy/ yyyy-mm-dddd-slug/slug.md. 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.