Linux - rename multiple files in one command

for /F "tokens=1,2,* delims=."%%a in ('dir /b') do (
echo move %%a.%%b %%a.txt
)

put this in a bat file and run this in your are ok with whatever is coming on the command prompt you can then remove echo to do the actual renaming

for /F "tokens=1,2,* delims=."%%a in ('dir /b') do (
echo move %%a %%a.txt
)

made a small change as your files dont have extension  

thanks vikas, but can you pls tell how to run it

I've files like
aa
ab
ac
ad
ae
af

and I want to change them to
aa.txt
ab.txt
ac.txt
ad.txt ... and so on

please just write the syntax/cmd ... whatever I want to run to change these names

thanks.

@echo off
for /F "tokens=1,2,* delims=."%%a in ('dir /b') do (
echo %%a %%a.txt
move %%a %%a.txt
)

1.copy the above code and put it into a file name run.bat
2.copy the file into the location where you have your files
3.go to the location form command promt and just say run.bat
4.if you are getting below as output then everything is fine


aa aa.txt
bb bb.txt
..
..

@echo off
for /F %%a in ('dir /b') do (
echo %%a %%a.txt
move %%a %%a.txt
)

a small change even this will work

it is giving error

one more thing is possible that we can do the rename at linux too ... is it possible to rename all these files at linux box, before bringing to windows ... doable?

this'll be easy

error file attached
error.doc

I guess we cant rename it in linux because you will again end up in getting the same special character error as the line ending in windows and linux differ

it looks it worked ... but will confirm again ..

Vikas ... Big Thanks ... but need to test/verify again ... ;-)

You can easily rename them all under linux with the unixtodos tool

unix2dos filename

And if you are moving from windows to linux you have

dos2unix filename

Good Luck

Hi, could you please explain how do you move these files from linux to windows? ftp, smb shared disk, copy on an external media, or else?
Maybe there is a cleaner and simpler way to avoid changing the newline character, e.g. in ftp by using the "bin" transfer method, in shared disks or external media by avoiding the conv= option in mount command on linux.

using wiseftp program to move files from linux to windows ... and the file type setting is auto ... do you want me to try something?

Renaming the files on Windows in a Command prompt should be easy.
On Windows, to rename files called ax to ax.txt where x can be any character just use:
ren  a?  a?.txt
If there are more than 2 characters in the filename but they all start with the letter a you can use:
ren  a*  a*.txt

Alternatively, at the Linux end use dos2unix to convert the files first:
for i in a?
do
unix2dos $i
done

Again replace a? with a* if you are using more than 2 character filenames.

OK, now I understand the problem:

with auto mode the files with name aa ab, etc. are interpreted as binary and they are transfered without changes, this means that the line terminator is only a linefeed character (UNIX convention) and they look odd in a Windows text editor.

Rather than renaming the files to aa.txt, before transferring them, in order to force the conversion to Windows format in auto mode, I suggest to use the ASCII transfer mode of wiseftp, so that the files will be converted to Windows line terminator convention (carriage return + linefeed) during the transfer.

Alternatively you can convert them under Linux with the unix2dos command before transferring them, as suggested above.

So, just to clarify: auto mode DOES NOT ADD any line terminator character to files like aa (thus the file looks odd on Windows) while it ADDS line terminator characters to file aa.txt (thus they look correct), not the other way round.

THANKS Gurus ... give me some time, need to test/check/verify ... which one is the best and fastest solution, will get back to soon ... stay tuned ;-)